Great

Definition: Great

Great

Adjective

1. Relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind; "a great juicy steak"; "a great multitude"; "the great auk"; "a great old oak"; "a great ocean liner"; "a great delay".

2. More than usual; "great expectations"; "great worry".

3. (used of persons) standing above others in character or attainment or reputation; "our distinguished professor"; "an eminent scholar"; "a great statesman".

4. Of major significance or importance; "a great work of art"; "Einstein was one of the outstanding figures of the 20th century".

5. Remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; "a great crisis"; "had a great stake in the outcome".

6. (informal) very good; "a bully pulpit"; "a neat sports car"; "had a great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing".

7. Uppercase; "capital A"; "great A"; "many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script".

8. Marked by active interest and enthusiasm; "an avid sports fan"; "a great walker"; "an eager beaver".

9. In an advanced stage of pregnancy; "was big with child"; "was great with child".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "great" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Great \Great\, adjective. [Comparative Greater; superlative Greatest.]. (references)

Satire

Biographical Satire

Literature

Multilingual Slang

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Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Great

Disinterestedness

Handsome, liberal, noble, broad-minded; noble-minded, high-minded; princely, great, high, elevated, lofty, exalted, spirited, stoical, magnanimous; great-hearted, large-hearted; chivalrous, heroic, sublime.

Size

Adjective: large, big; great; considerable, bulky, voluminous, ample, massive, massy; capacious, comprehensive; spacious; mighty, towering, fine, magnificent.

Crosswords: Great

Yeah, well, when you put it that way, it doesn't sound that great to me either (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin.)

Yeah, that would be great. (American Pie; writing credit: Adam Herz)

I'm great. (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball)

You are a monster, and my father is a great man. You're nothing like my father (Air Force One; writing credit: Andrew W. Marlowe)

The great Morpheus (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski)

I'm looking for answers from the great beyond (The Great Beyond; performing artist: R.E.M.)

And it's a great day to be alive (It's A Great Day To Be Alive; performing artist: Travis Tritt)

What a great little plane (Clockwork Creep; performing artist: 10CC)

I'm trying to get up that great big hill of hope (What's up; performing artist: 4 Non Blondes)

Ok, that little place it's a great move (If I Could Go; performing artist: Angie Martinez)

Behind every great man is a great woman, and behind her is his wife. (references; author: Groucho Marx)

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Great Presentation Skills: Able to bullshit. (references; author: unknown)

The great lie of the news media: I am the public. (references; author: unknown)

Get a new car for your spouse, it'll be a great trade! (references; author: unknown)

Gale's great glass globe glows green. (references; author: unknown)

In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great (1998)

The Great American Songbook (2003)

All Creatures Great and Small (1974)

Finger 5's Great Adventure (1974)

The Great Western Musical Thunderbox (1974)

GREAT BALLS OF FIRE  (performing artist: Jerry Lee Lewis )

THE GREAT PRETENDER  (performing artist: Platters )

Great Pretender, The (performing artist: The Platters)

The Great Beyond (performing artist: R.E.M.)

It's A Great Day To Be Alive (performing artist: Travis Tritt)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co Inc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Great American Bancorp, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Great China Holdings Ltd: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Great Eagle Holdings Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Great Eastern Holdings Ltd: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Hackberry cavalier; being a chronicle of the more outstanding adventures in love and life of the bucolic Lothario, that Robin Hood of the post oak woods, that elegant gentleman and great spirit: Edgar Selfridge, et cronies (reference)

• The Set-Up-to-Fail Syndrome: How Good Managers Cause Great People to Fail (reference)

• Great Wisconsin Taverns: Over 100 Distinctive Badger Bars (reference)

• Great Short Works of Stephen Crane: Red Badge of Courage, Monster, Maggie, Open Boat, Blue Hotel, Bride Comes to Yellow Sky and Other Works (reference)

• Three Great Novels of the Civil War/the Killer Angels/Andersonville/the Red Badge of Courage (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Christies Great Estates (reference)

• Conference Of International Association For Great Lakes Research (reference)

• Great Barrington Historical Society Newsletter (reference)

• Great Basin Mine Watch Membership (reference)

• Great Lakes Angler (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Great Civil War Debate (reference)

• Dragonball Z - Great Saiyaman - Declaration (Edited) (reference)

• Our Daily Bread & Other Films of the Great Depression (reference)

• Great Depression (reference)

• Great Tae Kwon Do Demonstrations (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Great Pianists: Artur Schnabel (reference)

• Great Women Composers [BOX SET] (reference)

• Great Southwest (reference)

• The Truly Great Hits (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• 100 Great Education Games Volume 4 (reference)

• 100 Great Games for the Palm (reference)

• Asterix Great Rescue (reference)

• Asterix: The Great Rescue (reference)

• Yogi Bear's Great Balloon Blast (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Salton EG1 Great Eggs Egg Poacher/Boiler (reference)

• Great Neck Saw 752 4 In 1 Gearless Screwdriver (reference)

• Great Neck Saw SD38 GreatLite 38-Piece Lighted Screwdriver Set (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Shown is the great room of the Children's Inn, showing the large fireplace. Credit: Bill Branson (Photographer).

Histopathology of lymph node shows effacement of architecture with great numbers of plump histiocytes. No granuloma formation or necrosis is present. Credit: CDC.

Onychomycosis due to Trychophyton rubrum, right and left great toe. Tinea unguium. Credit: CDC.

Great Lakes Effect. Credit: NASA.

Just when it seemed like the summer movie season had ended, two of NASA's Great Observatories ... Credit: NASA.

A NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of a region of the Great Nebula in Orion, as imaged by ... Credit: NASA.

Three-color filter image of Jupiter's best known feature, the Great Red Spot. (Voyager 1). Credit: NASA.

False-color image of Jupiter's Great Red Spot. (Voyager 1). Credit: NASA.

Great Lakes. Credit: NASA.

Great Salt Lake, UT. Credit: NASA.

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If one who has borrowed from the Jews any sum, great or small, die before that loan be repaid, the debt shall not bear interest while the heir is under age, of whomsoever he may hold; and if the debt fall into our hands, we will not take anything except the principal sum contained in the bond. (reference)

Thus far that great advocate of monarchical power allows of resistance. (Second Treatise of Government)

The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. (reference)

In January 1786, the Legislature of Virginia passed a resolution providing for the appointment of five commissioners, who, or any three of them, should meet such commissioners as might be appointed in the other States of the Union, at a time and place to be agreed upon, to take into consideration the trade of the United States; to consider how far a uniform system in their commercial regulations may be necessary to their common interest and their permanent harmony; and to report to the several States such an act, relative to this great object, as, when ratified by them, will enable the United States in Congress effectually to provide for the same. (reference)

The exercise of this original right is a very great exertion; nor can it, nor ought it, to be frequently repeated. (reference)

This school of Socialism dissected with great acuteness the contradictions in the conditions of modern production. (reference)

We are met on a great battlefield of that war. (The Gettysburg Address)

The Delegates of the United States, Great Britain, France and Italy shall have this right on all occasions. (reference)

That I feel is an open cause of policy of very great importance . ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Compulsory school attendance laws and the great expenditures for education both demonstrate our recognition of the importance of education to our democratic society. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

S, I had a great curiosity

The Count hurried across the room in great excitement

It was with great astonishment, and with a strange, inexplicable dread, that as he looked, he saw this bell begin to swing

So great a vicissitude in his life could not at once be received as real

It was with great difficulty that Toussaint obtained permission to pack up a little linen and clothing and a few toilet articles

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide

It seemed to him that he stood in the midst of a great hall, dark and silent save for the ticking of a great clock

the great King of kings Hath in the tables of his law commanded That thou shalt do no murder

He swung the great truck viciously around a bend and the tires shrilled

Thus by the great friendship of the Secretary, the whole affair was compromised

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Health

Autism varies a great deal in severity. (references)

With this great benefit, however, have come complex problems. (references)

It often requires a great deal of adjustment in outlook and lifestyle. (references)

Business

These hospitals are in great need of upgrades. (references)

The IVA has a great impact on the entire economy. (references)

The year 1999 was a great year for fiber optics in Argentina. (references)

Children

Bulgaria

Problems of general unemployment and a poor economy also undermined initiatives aimed at advancing equal opportunity for persons with disabilities; the great majority of persons with disabilities are unemployed. (references)

Bulgaria

Disabled individuals have access to university training (students with disabilities must pay the university's initial application fee but are exempt from semester fees if accepted), to housing, and to employment; however, architectural barriers are a great hindrance in most older buildings, including schools and universities. (references)

Civil Liberties

Sweden

The procedures accord great discretion to individuals in decisionmaking positions. (references)

Discrimination

Tonga

Nonetheless it is possible for ordinary citizens to rise to cabinet positions in government and to accumulate great wealth and status in the private sector. (references)

Economic History

Uganda

Uganda's economy has great potential. (references)

Hong Kong

Per capita GDP approximates Great Britain's. (references)

Human Rights

Morocco

Nevertheless, the press reported on this case in great detail. (references)

Suriname

The police obtain them in the great majority of investigations. (references)

Hungary

The lack of a bail system gives a great deal of flexibility to judges. (references)

Minorities

Korea

Thus ethnic Chinese born and resident in Korea obtain citizenship only with great difficulty. (references)

Japan

Obstacles to naturalization include broad discretion available to adjudicating officers and great emphasis on Japanese-language ability. (references)

Singapore

During 1999 there was great debate over the fact that advertisements often specify ethnicity and gender requirements or require fluent Mandarin speakers. (references)

Political Economy

Korea

South Korean democracy made great strides over the past decade. (references)

Pakistan

Pakistan is a poor country with great extremes in the distribution of wealth; its population is approximately 140 million. (references)

San Marino

The popularly elected Parliament (the Great and General Council--GGC) selects two of its members to serve as the Captains Regent (co-Heads of State). (references)

Political Rights

Guatemala

While ordinary laws could be enacted to accomplish many of the reforms, the constitutional reforms nonetheless held great symbolic value for the peace process. (references)

Tunisia

Opposition politicians argued that the subsidy system reinforces the favored position of the ruling party because its dominance in the Parliament means that it receives the great majority of the government funding. (references)

Fiji

The Senate remained an appointed body--the President appoints 32 members, of which the Great Council of Chiefs nominates 14 members, the Prime Minister nominates 9, the opposition leader nominates 8, and the Council of Rotuma nominates 1 member. (references)

Trade

Senegal

AFDB is currently putting a great emphasis on private sector financing. (references)

Costa Rica

Consequently, great care must be taken to avoid errors and infractions. (references)

France

ISO 9000 has become a great marketing tool in France, sometimes more cost-effective than advertising. (references)

Travel

Korea

Koreans have a great respect for the family and hierarchy. (references)

France

One could pay less or a great deal more than this $234 amount. (references)

Ghana

Great Irish Pub and very popular with Ghanaians and expats alike. (references)

Women

Brazil

However, reporting crimes and receiving help continue to be a problem for women living in remote areas who sometimes must travel great distances to the nearest special precinct. (references)

Panama

The Ministry of Youth, Women, Children, and Family Affairs is largely a consolidation of departments previously operating in other government ministries, and its activities have not attracted a great deal of public attention. (references)

Colombia

Despite an explicit constitutional provision promising additional resources for single mothers and government efforts to provide them with training in parenting skills, women's groups reported that the social and economic problems of single mothers remained great. (references)

Worker Rights

Sao Tome and Principe

Public sector employees still make up the great majority of wage earners. (references)

Singapore

The authorities have fined or imprisoned employers who have abused domestics, often with great publicity. (references)

Yemen

However, since a great percentage of the country's underage work force is in the agricultural sector in remote rural areas, it is difficult for the Government to protect most child workers. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Father of a great multitude

One who causes great pain at his birth

Father of a great multitude

Father of a great multitude

One who causes great pain at his birth

Great

Great understanding

A very great mass

Great

Well of great fear

In great number

The great man

Great

Father of a great multitude

Father of a great multitude

Father of a great multitude

To be great

A great hunter

Father of a great multitude

Father of a great multitude

Father of a great multitude

Expressions using "great": a great deal ♦ a great deal of ♦ a great deed ♦ A great gross ♦ a great guy ♦ a great many ♦ a great number ♦ a great number of ♦ a great occasion ♦ a great of ♦ A Great Opportunity for Rural Areas ♦ a great pull ♦ a great quantity of ♦ a great sleeper ♦ a great while ♦ a man of great abilities ♦ a man of great worth ♦ a question of great interest ♦ affect great elegance ♦ Alexander the Great ♦ Alfred the Great ♦ at a great pace ♦ at a great rate ♦ at great cost ♦ at great length ♦ Athanasius the Great ♦ be a great contrast to ♦ be a great one for parting ♦ be endowed with great talents ♦ be great chums ♦ be great on ♦ be in a great request ♦ be in a great state ♦ be in great demand ♦ be in great form ♦ be in great request ♦ be no great shakes ♦ be of great importance ♦ be of great moment ♦ be on great request ♦ become great ♦ blow great guns ♦ by the great ♦ Canute the Great ♦ catherine the great ♦ Charles the Great ♦ Constantine the Great ♦ cyrus the Great ♦ Darius the Great ♦ display great courage ♦ feel great ♦ Ferdinand the Great ♦ Frederick the Great ♦ give a great deal of trouble ♦ go great guns ♦ go great lengths ♦ go to great expense ♦ go to great lengths ♦ great adductor muscle ♦ great agitation ♦ Great and small ♦ great anteater ♦ great ape ♦ great apes ♦ great at ♦ Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea ♦ great Attractor ♦ great auk ♦ great barracuda ♦ Great Barrington ♦ great bear ♦ great bellied ♦ Great Bend ♦ great bilberry ♦ great black cockatoo ♦ great blue heron ♦ great blue shark ♦ great bowerbird ♦ great britain ♦ great burdock ♦ Great burnet ♦ great bustard ♦ Great Cacapon ♦ great cane ♦ great care ♦ Great cassino ♦ Great cattle ♦ great cerebral vein ♦ great charter ♦ great chums ♦ great circle ♦ Great circle of a sphere ♦ great circle route ♦ Great circle sailing ♦ great circle track ♦ Great climacteric ♦ great coat ♦ great crested grebe ♦ great dane ♦ great daub ♦ great deal. Additional references.

Beginning with "great": great-aunt, great-aunts, great-beamed, Great-bellied, great-breasted, Great-britain, great-circle, great-coat, great-crested, great-eyed, great-footed hawk, great-gran, great-grand, Great-grandad, Great-grandchild, great-grandchildren, great-granddaddy, great-granddaughter, great-grand-daughter, great-granddaughters, great-grand-daughters, great-granddoughter, great-grandfather, great-grand-father, great-grandfathers, great-grandfer, Great-grandma, great-grandmas, great-grandmother, great-grandmothers, Great-grandpa, great-grandpapa, great-grandparent, great-grandparents, great-grandpas, great-grandson, great-grand-son, great-grandsons, Great-granny, great-great, great-great-aunt, Great-great-auntie, great-great-etcetera-grandmothers, great-greatgran, great-great-gran, great-great-grandad, great-great-grandchildren, great-greatgranddaughter, great-great-granddaughter, great-great-grandfather, great-great-grandfather's, great-great-grandmother, great-great-grandparents, great-great-grandson, great-great-great, great-great-great-grandfather, great-great-great-grandfather's, great-great-great-grandmother, great-great-great-grandson, great-great-great-great, great-great-great-great-grandfather, great-great-great-great-grandfather's, great-great-great-niece, Great-great-great-uncle, great-great-uncle, great-handling, Great-hearted, Great-heartedness, great-leaved macrophylla, great-looking, great-muscled, great-name, great-nephew, great-nephews, great-niece, great-nieces, great-nosed, great-power, great-powerdom, great-rakes, great-room, great-russian, great-serbian, great-sinner, great-size, great-something-grandfather, great-sounding, great-tailed, great-tasting, great-uncle, great-uncles, great-wall.

Ending with "great": ex-great, great-great, great-great-great, once-great.

Containing "great": holy-place-from-over-the-great-water.

Afrikaans

puik (eminent, fine), kostelik (delicious, fine, lovely), groot (big, large). (various references)

Albanian

mrekullueshëm (remarkably, tiptop, toppingly), madh (big, large), kryesor (arch, arterial, basal, capital, Cardinal, central, chief, focal, foremost, fundamental, general, governing, grand, key, keynote, leading, main, major, pivotal, predominant, premier, primal, primary, prime, principal, topmost, trunk), i shkëlqyer (admirable, bright, brilliant, capital, choice, copybook, corking, crack, cracking, Dandy, divine, excellent, fabulous, famous, fantastic, fantastical, fine, first rate, flamboyant, gaudy, glazy, glorious, glossy, gorgeous, heavenly, immense, marvellous, marvelous, perfect, pink, plum, powerful, prize, pukka, rare, ripping, royal, smashing, splendid, splendiferous, whizzbang, wicked), i madh (bally, big, black, bouncing, capacious, capital, chuckle, chunking, close, grand, gross, intense, large, lumping, major, massive, mighty, pelting, thumping, vast, vasty, voluminous, whacking, whaling), i famshëm (celebrated, famed, famous, glorious, illustrious, noted, outstanding, renowned), fisnik (aristocrat, blue-blooded, gallant, generous, gent, gentle, gentleman, gentlemanlike, gently born, grand, high minded, knight, knightly, lofty, moral, nobiliary, noble, nobleman, patrician). (various references)

Arabic 

عضيم (powerful), ‏كبير (big, bulky, considerable, enormous, extent, formidable, full grown, grand, huge, immense, king size, large, magnificent, major, massive, massy, senior, sizable, sweeping, tremendous, vast, voluminous, whacking, whopping), ‏نبيل (aristocrat, duke, ennobling, grand, heroic, noble), ‏قوى (anneal, be fortified, be more powerful, become mighty, become stronger, beefy, boost, brace, cogent, confirm, consolidate, enforce, fasten, fibrous, fortify, freshen, grow stronger, harden, hefty, heighten, help, heroic, in power, innervate, intensify, invigorate, nerve, prop, reinforce, sinew, stiffen, strengthen, support, sustain, tighten), ‏غفير كثير (numerous), ‏ساحق (cracking, crusher, crushing, landslide, massive, out and out, overpowering, overwhelming, rank, reducible, shattering, sweeping, swinging), ‏على نحو واسع (openly, vastly, widely), ‏عظيم (bestead, bulky, eminent, fantastic, gigantic, grand, magnificent, majestic, major, mighty, mogul, sensational, sizable, sublime, terrific), ‏ضخم (astronomic, astronomical, awful, big, bulking, bulky, bull, colossal, colossus, considerable, distend, elephantine, enormous, exaggerate, extend, exuberant, fat, gargantuan, ghastly, giant, gigantic, goodly, grand, handsome, heavy, hefty, heroic, huge, hulking, husky, immense, intense, jumbo, large, leviathan, liberal, mammoth, mass, massive, mighty, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, outsize, oversize, palatial, phenomenal, powerful, prodigious, proud, round, royal, sizable, smart, strapping, strong, stupendous, sublime, swingeing, tall, tidy, titan, titanic, towering, tremendous, vast, voluminous, whacking, whopping), ‏جليل (august, dignified, exalted, glorious, grand, grave, honorable, honourable, important, imposing, lofty, magnificent, portly, respectable, significant, solemn, splendid, stately, sublime, venerable), ‏رفيع (astral, elevated, fine, polite, sublime, superlative, supreme, thin), ‏شهير (celebrated, distinguished, famed, illustrious, lustrous, note, noted, prominent, public, renowned, shining), ‏بارز (beetle, conspicuous, distinct, distinguished, duel, eminent, featured, fence, in the first flight, lofty, memorable, monumental, noble, notable, noticeable, outstanding, pointed, profile, prognathous, projecting, prominent, protruding, protuberant, remarkable, salient, signal, striking, uncommon). (various references)

Asturian

bisgüelu (great grandfather), bisgüela (great grandmother). (various references)

Aymara

ahuichan mamapa (great grandmother), achachilan tatapa (great grandfather). (various references)

Basque

handi (tall). (various references)

Bemba

batata (great grandfather), bamayo (great grandmother). (various references)

Bulgarian 

страхотен (awesome, devilish, direful, fearsome, formidable, frantic, frightful, furious, ghastly, morbid, tremendous, unearthly), ужасен (aghast, appalling, awful, bloodcurdling, deadly, desperate, deuced, devastating, dire, direful, dreadful, eldritch, execrable, fearful, fearsome, frantic, frightful, furious, ghastly, grievous, grisly, gruesome, horrible, horrid, horror-stricken, lurid, macabre, miserable, morbid, murderous, planet-stricken, planet-struck, precious, sad, septic, terrible, terrific, towering, tremendous, unholy, unmentionable, vicious, wretched), чудесен (admirable, beautiful, champion, clipping, cool, corking, delicious, elegant, excellent, fabulous, famous, fine, glorious, gorgeous, heavenly, hot, immense, lovely, magnificent, marvellous, marvelous, neat, nifty, noble, priceless, rattling, regular, ripping, scrumptious, smashing, spanking, splendid, super, terrific, thundering, topping, walloping, wizard, wonderful), голям (almighty, big, chunking, gone, grown up, hearty, heavy, hefty, jolly, large, major, man-sized, massive, near, numerous, powerful, proper, vast, vasty, walloping), възвишен (elate, grand, high, high minded, high-toned, lofty, magnanimous, noble, rarefied, soaring, spheric, sublime, supernal), велик (grand), знаменит (celebrated, cunning, famous, glorious, gone, illustrious, inconceivable, lustrous, prominent, proud, reputed, rousing, terrific). (various references)

Catalan

excel-lent (fine). (various references)

Cebuano

apohan nga lalaki sa tuhod (great grandfather), apohan nga babaye sa tuhod (great grandmother). (various references)

Chamorro

bisnietu (great grandson), bisnieta (great granddaughter), bisabuello (great grandfather), bisabuella (great grandmother). (various references)

Chinese 

恢 (to recover, to restore), 夥 (assistant, many, numerous, partner), 大 (big, deep, doctor, eldest, huge, large, major, oldest, wide), 奘 (fat, stout), 冢 (mound), 偉 (big, large), 偉大 (large, mighty), 弘 (liberal), 伟大 (greatness), 价 (good, middleman, price, servant), 昄 (expansive), 鉅 (hard iron), 僤 (severe), 嚭 (great fortune, stimulate to effort), 狀 (accusation, condition, state, strong, suit), 鈞 (30 catties, your), 顒 (just, stern), 訏 (large, to boast), 鴻 (eastern bean goose, large), 豐 (abundant, plentiful), 重大 (important, major, significant), 很多 (very many, very much). (various references)

Czech

geniální (brilliant, ingenious), ohromný (dishy, enormous, formidable, gigantic, huge, immense, mean, splendid, stupendous, terrific, towering, tremendous, vast, vasty, whacking), bájeèný (blissful, fabulous, glorious, gorgeous, groovy, magic, magnificent, nailing, priceless, terrific, wonderful, wondrous, yummy), dìsný (awful, dreadful, fearsome, grim, grisly, gruesome, hair-rising, hairy, horrid, lurid, macabre, unearthly, unholy), dùležitý (all important, big, grand, important, major, momentous, of great importance, relevant, solid, substantive), eminentní, fajn (goody, ok, okay, okey-dokey), fantastický (dishy, fabulous, fantastic, fantastical, gorgeous, incredible, like a dream, magic, out of this world, smashing, sublime, terrific, unbelievable), náruživý (ardent, enthusiastic, fanatical, fervent), nadšený (dedicated, enthusiastic, glowing, keen, passionate, rapturous, rousing, thrilled, wholehearted, zealous, zestful), nesmírný (enormous, extreme, immeasurable, immense, infinite, prodigious, rare, unbounded, utmost, vast), bájeènì (delightfully, famously, wonderfully), oddaný (affectionate, attached, devoted, dutiful, intent, obedient, pious, stalwart), vlivný (important, influent, influential, powerful, seminal), senzaèní (delicious, fine, gorgeous, grand, groovy, hot, magic, mean, sensational, smashing, startling, stunning, swell, terrific, thrilling, wonderful), skuteèný (actual, effective, existent, existing, genuine, historical, intrinsic, intrinsical, practical, real, true, very, virtual), skvìle (delightfully, fine), slavný (celebrated, famed, famous, glorious, illustrious, noted, renowned, well known), výbornì (finely, good, good for you, good man, very well, well done, wonderfully), výborný (beautiful, excellent, fine), velikán (colossus, giant), veliký, velká osobnost, velký (big, considerable, exquisite, grand, grave, gross, hearty, heavy, high, intense, large, long, loose, man-sized, spacious, tall, wide), nezapomenutelný (unforgettable). (various references)

Danish

stor (big, large). (various references)

Dutch

tof (fine, pleasing), tiptop (fine), excellent (fine). (various references)

Esperanto

granda (big, large), superfantazia, bonega (fine). (various references)

Faeroese

stórur (big, large). (various references)

Farsi 

مهم (Chief, Considerable, Earthshaking, Epochal, Grand, Grave, Head, Important, Main, Material, Momentous, Principal, Serious, Significant, Smacker, Substantial), متعدد (Manifold, Multifarious, Multiple, Several, Somedeal, Umpteen, Umpteenth), ماهر (Adept, Adroit, Cunning, Deft, Dexterous, Dextrous, Expert, Handy, Industrious, Jimmy, Natty, Pert, Proficient, Skillful, Slick, Understanding, Workmanlike), هنگفت (Enormous, Large), کبیر (Adult, Major), تومند, زیاد (Copious, Extortionary, Far, Generous, Heavy, High, Immoderate, Intense, Late, Liberal, Manifold, Many, Much, Populous, Rife, Superabundant, Thick, Too, Vast, Very, Wide), عظیم (August, Enormous, Glorious, Massive, Terrific, Tremendous, Vast, Whopper), طولانی (Long, Prolix), ابستن (Anticipant, Big, Expectant, Heavy, Impregnant, Pergnant), بزرگ (Adult, Arch, Big, Bulky, Egregious, Enormous, Extensive, Extra, Grand, Grave, Gross, Headman, Jumbo, Large, Lofty, Majestic, Major, Massive, Mighty, Sizable, Sizeable, Swith, Vast, Voluminous), بصیر (Conversant, Intuitive, Sage). (various references)

Finnish

suuri (big, extensive, high, large, wide), suurenmoinen (grand, imposing, magnificent, splendid), mahtava (high, mighty, powerful), iso (big, large). (various references)

French

grand (full grown), excellent, éminent. (various references)

Frisian

grut (big, considerable, large, sizable). (various references)

German

groß (big, bigly, capital, capitalized, considerable, copious, full, grand, grievous, keen, large, large scale, large-capacity, largely, lengthy, long, major, near, sharp, sizable, sizably, tall, upper case, wide). (various references)

Greek 

σπουδαίοσ (frabjous, grand, important, momentous, of note, serious, significant), μέγασ (big, broad, grand, high, large), μεγάλοσ (big, large, sizable, sizeable, whopping), μεγάλος (big, grand, grown, grown up, large, long), απίθανος (fabulous, fantastic, improbable, unlikely). (various references)

Hawaiian

madh (big, large). (various references)

Hebrew 

גדול (augmentation, big, breed, breeding, development, grand, growth, high, increment, large, mighty, raising, step up, upbringing, whopping). (various references)

Hungarian

nagy (bang, big, blow-out, burly, by the skin of one's teeth, charger, circumstantiality, cunning, dining hall, drag, expansive, folding money, glib, grand, gross, have a good wind, have a long way to go, have big ideas, haymaker, high, huge, kick in the teeth, large, massive, napoleon, pile, power, redundancy, roomy, saloon, spaciousness, spread, stack, swag-belly, the betting ran high, throaty, to buy at high rate, to delineate, to drink deep, to go the pace, to hit the headlines, to kick up a riot, to make much of sg, to make much of sy, to make the headlines, to raise cain, to set store by sg, to shoe-horn, to the great chagrin of sy). (various references)

Icelandic

stór (big, large), mikill (big, large). (various references)

Indonesian

jago (ace, magnate), besar (august, big, broad, fabulous, huge, large), berbesar (adult, grow up), akbar (big, exalted). (various references)

Inuktitut

attaatattiaqjuaq (great grandfather), anaanatiaqjuaq (great grandmother). (various references)

Irish

mór (big, large), mó, an-áthas (great joy), An Bhreatain Mhór (Britain, Great Britain), An Bhreatain (Britain, Great Britain). (various references)

Italian

grande (adult, big, grand, grown up, heavy, heavyset, high, large, major, strong, tall, wide). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

洪大 (immense). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きょ (big, cry, large, pride, squatting with legs outstretched), だいじょうてき (broad), えらい (awful, celebrated, eminent, excellent, famous, remarkable, terrible), グレート , こ (arc, big, business, child, counter for houses, counter for mil. units, crime, fault, individual, large, old, price, selling, sin, the late, the young of animals), こうだい (extensive, future generations, grand, huge, immense, impressive, magnificent, posterity, technical college, vast, very large), だいだいてき (extensive, grand, large-scale), どえらい (awful, hell of a lot, immense, terrible, very serious), たいした (a big deal, considerable, important, significant), きょうせい (blackmail, coercion, compulsion, correction, enforcement, extortion, lovely voice, low singing voice, magnificent, obligation, paragenesis, persistent demand, reform, remedy, splendid, student teacher, symbiosis, training), おおいなる (big, large), おおきい (big, large), すてき (beautiful, capital, cool, dreamy, fantastic, lovely, superb), すごい (amazing, dreadful, terrible, terrific, to a great extent, wonderful), すぐれた (excellent), ごうぎ (conference, consultation, grand). (various references)

Kongo

nkakulula wa nkento (great grandmother), nkakulula wa bakala (great grandfather). (various references)

Korean 

중대한. (various references)

Macedonian

pra pra dedo (great grandfather), pra pra baba (great grandmother). (various references)

Malay

raya (big, large), besar (big, large). (various references)

Manx

urrymagh, mooar (big, bold, bold promintary, capacious, chief, commodious, difficult, extensive, extravagant, familiar, grand, grievous, heavy, hit off, hobnob, intense, intimate, loose-fitting, major, marked, powerful, tall), ard- (advanced, arch-, chief, dominant, prefix arch-, prime). (various references)

Norwegian

utmerket (eminent, excellent, fine), stor (big, large). (various references)

Occitan

grand (tall), bèl (beautiful, tall). (various references)

Papiamen

grandi (big, large), ekselente (eminent, fine). (various references)

Pig Latin

eatgray.(various references)

Polish

znakomity (fine), wyborny (fine), duży (big, large), świetny (fine). (various references)

Portuguese

grande (all-embracing, almighty, big, considerable, decuman, goodly, grand, high, large, much, roomy, rousing, spacious, substantial, swingeing, vast, walloping), excelente (accomplished, champion, choice, classic, classical, crack-a-jack, distinctive, excellent, fine, first-class, first-rate, golden, good, magnificent, palmary, splendiferous, standout, super, superior, tiptop, top-hole, topping, undeniable). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

grande. (various references)

Provencal

rèiregrand (great grandfather). (various references)

Quechua

ikí (it would be great). (various references)

Romanian

mare (acred, adult, ample, big, boundless, brine, broad, bulky, deep, dense, enormous, famous, fat, flux, foam, gorgeous, grand, grandiose, gross, hard, heavy, high, howling, huge, hulking, illustrious, immense, important, keen, king size, large, large scale, long, loose, major, man-sized, massy, mighty, open, pond, ponderous, pretty, renowned, rich, roomy, sea, sensible, severe, spacious, stupendous, tall, thick, thundering, vast, violent, voluminous, wide). (various references)

Ruanda

sogokuruza (great grandfather), nyogokuruza (great grandmother). (various references)

Russian 

большой (big, builky, bulky, chuckle, chunking, clunky, considerable, feature length, goodly, grand, gross, healthy, high, large, major, man-sized, walloping). (various references)

Samoan

tina o matua o matua (great grandmother), tama o matua o matua (great grandfather). (various references)

Scottish

mór (big, important, large, of high, rendered in Eng. `Sarah' and `Marion';, tall). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

genijalan (brilliant, daedal, ingenious), veliki (big, bulky, crushing, knar, large, large scale, man-sized, resounding), u celosti (altogether, completely, en bloc, full: in full, totally, whole: on the whole, wholly), mnogo (deal: a good deal, deal: a great deal, deal: a great deal of, lot, lot: a lot of, lots of, many, much, multi, plenty, plenty of, quite a few, vastly, very), jak (beefy, bruiser, grunting ox, humming, intense, lusty, powerful, racy, red blooded, sinewy, spanking, stiff, strong, tenacious, yak), istaknut (featured, outstanding, posted, preeminent, prominent, salient, well-marked), divan (admirable, adorable, davenport, delightful, delightsome, divan, divan bed, divine, dreamy, gorgeous, groovy, high-toned, jolly, lovely, magnificent, neat, nifty, scrumptious, sofa, splendid, stunning, superb, terrific). (various references)

Sotho

moholo (grand). (various references)

Spanish

gran (big, heavyset, large, tall), grande (ample, appreciable, arch, big, bull, colossal, commodious, gigantic, grandee, hefty, high, large, lively, lusty, sizable, sizeable, sore, spanking, tall, unqualified, walloping, wide, widespread, yeoman), excelente (Dandy, eminent, excellence, excellent, fine, golden, goodly, ripping, shining, solid, sterling, tiptop). (various references)

Sranan

grofu (big, large), bigi (big, large). (various references)

Swahili

bora (better, eminent, fine). (various references)

Swedish

stor (ample, big, capital, grand, heavy, high, large, large scale, large-sized, rich, wide), bra (all right, bonny, fine, funky, good, jolly, longish, nice, not badly, o.k., ok, okay, okeydokey, quite, right, useful, very, very much, well). (various references)

Tagalog

malaki (big, large), dakilà (big, large). (various references)

Thai

สำคัญ (arch, chief, key, leading, material, red-hot), ยาวนาน (long-time), คำอุทานแสดงความพอใจ, ดีมาก (gnarly, like nobody's business). (various references)

Turkish

büyük (almighty, ample, big, bulky, capacious, capital, cyclopean, elder, enormous, exalted, extended, grand, grand-, great-, handsome, healthy, high, keen, large, large scale, long, macro-, magniloquent, major, mega-, megalo-, mighty, no end, no end of, older, out, precious, rousing, senior, smart, star, stout, sublime, swingeing, wide). (various references)

Turkmen 

зasly (loud), beяik (grand), baяry (old). (various references)

Ukrainian

величезний (astronomic, astronomical, babylonian, banging, decuman, dimensionless, enormous, flagrant, formidable, giantlike, grandiose, handsome, huge, immense, mighty, monstrous, mountainous, overwhelming, prodigious, slapping, swingeing, thumping, thundering, tremendous, vasty, walloping, whacking, whaling), великий (big, bulky, bumping, capital, copious, goodly, king size, large, out, vast), піднесений (applausive, elevated, eminent, exalted, grand, high minded, high-flown, rarefied, sublime), довгий (ample, gaunt, long, side, tall). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vĩ đại hết sức, to lớn (bouncing, bulky, capacious, colossal, cyclopean, enourmous, enourmously, goodly, howling, huge, mammoth, massive, massy, monster, titanic), thật là thú vị giỏi, thạo cừ, sống lâu rất quan tâm đến, rất cao quý, lớn (full-grow, large, sizable, sizeable), hiểu rõ, cao thượng tuyệt hay, ca cả. (various references)

Welsh

mawr (big, large). (various references)

Yucatec

nuuk (big, large), nohoch (big, large). (various references)

gal, gu-la. (various references)

rabû. (various references)

megas. (various references)

Acer pseudo-platanus, ampliorem, ampliori, amplioris, amplius, Atropa belladonna, Atropa bella-donna, Aythya marila, corpulentiores, Gallinago media, grande, grandem, grandes, grandi, grandia, grandis, granditer, grossior, grossiora, grossis, grossos, magna, magnae, magnâ, magnam, magnamque, magnaque, magnarum, magnarumque, magnas, magne, magni, magnis, magno, magnorum, magnos, magnum, magnus, magnus maior maximus, maior, maiora, maiore, maiorem, maiores, maioresque, maiori, maioribus, maioris, maiorque, maiorum, maius, maxima, maximam, maximas, maxime, maximeque, maximi, maximis, maximo, maximum, maximus, multa, multae, multaeque, multam, multamque, multaque, multarum, multas, multi, multique, multis, multo, multoque, multorum, multos, multum, multumque, multus, multusque, Parus major, plurima, plurimae, plurimam, plurimarum, plurimas, plurimi, plurimis, plurimo, plurimorum, plurimos, plurimum, plurimus, Pongidae, praegrandes, RM:becassina media, RM:maset grond, RM:muetta gronda, septentrione, septentrionem, Stercorarius skua, Urtica dioeca, Urtica dioica, valde. (various references)

maha. (various references)

berezô, berezañt, masô, uta-. (various references)

grossus. (various references)

micel, rice. (various references)

grand. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "great": greatcoat, greatcoats, greaten, greatened, greatening, greatens, greater, greatest, greathearted, greatheartedly, greatheartedness, greatheartednesses, greatly, greatness, greatnesses, greats. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Great" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: creatt, freat, garat, Garatt, garett, gehabt, gera, Gerad, Gergatz, Gerratt, gert, Gerta, gertan, Gervat, gesamt, gevalt, gleat, gorea, Goreau, graa, grae, Graef, Graet, grart, grat, grath, graut, grayt, gread, greak, greal, gream, greap, grear, greas, greate, greatr, Greatt, greaty, greeat, greety, greit, greiv, greo, grest, gret, greta, gretl, grett, Gretz, grewt, Grieux, griut, groak, groant, groaty, groet, groit, Gropat, Grota, grreaat, gruad, Gruak, gyeet, preat, reat, Rgdata, ureat. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: grate, retag, targe, terga.

-1 letter: ager, gate, gear, geta, grat, rage, rate, tare, tear.

-2 letters: age, are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, erg, eta, gae, gar, gat, get, rag, rat, reg, ret, tae, tag, tar, tea, teg.

-3 letters: ae, ag, ar, at, er, et, re, ta.

+1 letter: aigret, argent, ergate, gaiter, garget, garnet, garote, garret, garter, gaster, gather, grated, grater, grates, greats, gyrate, orgeat, parget, retags, rugate, stager, tagger, targes, target, tergal, triage.

+2 letters: agentry, aigrets, argents, cartage, cigaret, dragnet, engraft, ergates, etagere, fagoter, frigate, gagster, gaiters, gargets, gargety, garment, garnets, garoted, garotes, garotte, garrets, garrote, garters, gasters, gastrea, gathers, gaunter, gloater, gradate, grafted, grafter, granite, granted, grantee, granter, graters, gratine, gravest, grayest, greaten, greater, greatly, gyrated, gyrates, ingrate, largest, legator, margent, migrate, negater, negator, orgeats, outrage, pargets, portage, ragtime, reagent, regatta, regmata, regnant, regraft, regrant, regrate, restage, rootage, seagirt, stagers, stagger, stagier, storage, strange, taggers, tanager, tangier, tangler, targets, teargas, tearing, tegular, tragedy, trepang, triaged, triages, twanger, virgate.