vast
unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,294 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 14,157 times across 173,643 chapters — 0.007% of every word in the library.
What it means
adjective
- unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope also: huge, immense, Brobdingnagian huge government spendinghuge country estates
vast in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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A mark of vast confidence, as he observed to her.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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The whole neighbourhood had the appearance of a vast churchyard.
The Yellow Fairy Book: The Grateful Beasts · World Traditions (Celtic, Norse, Asian & Persian) · Chapter 1
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Hundreds of people turned away, but the vast crowd still looked calmly on.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1
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O love, O love, these oceans vast: Love, love, it is as death were past!
John Marr and Other Poems · Herman Melville · Chapter 1
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Glimmer, as funeral lamps, Amid the chills and damps Of the vast plain where Death encamps!
The Complete Poetical Works of Henry · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Chapter 1