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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Vast \Vast\, n.
A waste region; boundless space; immensity. "The watery
vast." --Pope.
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Michael bid sound
The archangel trumpet. Through the vast of heaven
It sounded. --Milton.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Vast \Vast\ (v[.a]st), a. [Compar. {Vaster} (v[.a]st"[~e]r);
superl. {Vastest}.] [L. vastus empty, waste, enormous,
immense: cf. F. vaste. See {Waste}, and cf. {Devastate}.]
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1. Waste; desert; desolate; lonely. [Obs.]
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The empty, vast, and wandering air. --Shak.
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2. Of great extent; very spacious or large; also, huge in
bulk; immense; enormous; as, the vast ocean; vast
mountains; the vast empire of Russia.
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Through the vast and boundless deep. --Milton.
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3. Very great in numbers, quantity, or amount; as, a vast
army; a vast sum of money.
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4. Very great in force; mighty; as, vast labor.
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5. Very great in importance; as, a subject of vast concern.
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Syn: Enormous; huge; immense; mighty.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vast
adj 1: unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially
extent or scope; "huge government spending"; "huge
country estates"; "huge popular demand for higher
education"; "a huge wave"; "the Los Angeles aqueduct
winds like an immense snake along the base of the
mountains"; "immense numbers of birds"; "at vast (or
immense) expense"; "the vast reaches of outer space";
"the vast accumulation of knowledge...which we call
civilization"- W.R.Inge [syn: {huge}, {immense}, {vast},
{Brobdingnagian}]
From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) [vera]:
VAST
Virtual Archive Storage Technology
From Dutch-English Freedict dictionary [fd-nld-eng]:
vast [vɑst]
certain; sure
certainly
abiding; lasting
definite; definitive
allthetime; in the meantime; meanwhile
fixed
fast; firm; stable
firmly
constant; continual; permanent; sustained
10.firm; solid
11.probably
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