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Related to grit." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Adjective", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(augmentative) Large, senior (high-ranking), intense, extreme, or exceptional", "submean": [ "Relatively large in scale, size, extent, number (i.e. having many parts or members) or duration (i.e. relatively long); very big.\nA great storm is approaching our shores.\na great assembly\na great wait\n1922, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest‎:“ the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like // Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. ”\n1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 7, in The China Governess‎:‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared. ’\n2013 July 19, Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 18:Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.", "Title referring to an important leader.\nAlexander the Great", "Of larger size or more importance than others of its kind.\nthe great auk\n1611, The Holy Bible,  (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Daniel 2:48:So the King made Daniel a great man \nc. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :He doth object I am too great of birth.", "(informal) Very good; excellent; wonderful; fantastic. \nDinner was great.\n1918, W B Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, , the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.", "(informal, Britain) Intensifying a word or expression, used in mild oaths.\na dirty great smack in the face\nGreat Scott!" ] }, { "mean": "(qualifying nouns of family relationship) Involving more generations than the qualified word implies — as many extra generations as repetitions of the word great (from 1510s). \ngreat-grandfather, great-great-grandfather, great-great-great-grandfather" }, { "mean": "(obsolete, postpositive, followed by 'with') Pregnant; large with young; full of.\ngreat with child\ngreat with hope\n1611, The Holy Bible,  (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Psalms 73:71:the ewes great with young" }, { "mean": "(obsolete, except with 'friend' and similar words such as 'mate','buddy') Intimate; familiar.\n1625, Francis , “Of Followers and Friends”, in The Essayes , 3rd edition, London: Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:those that are so great with him" }, { "mean": "Extreme or more than usual.\ngreat worry" }, { "mean": "Of significant importance or consequence; important.\na great decision\n1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:“We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic?”" }, { "mean": "(applied to actions, thoughts and feelings) Arising from or possessing idealism; admirable; superior; commanding; heroic; illustrious; eminent.\na great deed\na great nature\na great history" }, { "mean": "Impressive or striking.\na great show of wealth" }, { "mean": "Much in use; favoured.\nPoetry was a great convention of the Romantic era." }, { "mean": "(applied to persons) Endowed with extraordinary powers; of exceptional talents or achievements; uncommonly gifted; able to accomplish vast results; remarkable; strong; powerful; mighty; noble.\na great hero, scholar, genius, philosopher, writer etc." }, { "mean": "Doing or exemplifying (a characteristic or pursuit) on a large scale; active or enthusiastic.\nWhat a great buffoon!\nHe's not a great one for reading.\na great walker" }, { "mean": "(often followed by 'at') Skilful or adroit.\na great carpenter\nYou are great at singing." } ] }, { "name": "Interjection", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Expression of gladness and content about something.\nGreat! Thanks for the wonderful work.\n2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)\nI am in my new apartment! Great!\nAudio (US)(file)" }, { "mean": "sarcastic inversion thereof.\nOh, great! I just dumped all 500 sheets of the manuscript all over and now I have to put them back in order." } ] }, { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "A person of major significance, accomplishment or acclaim.\nNewton and Einstein are two of the greats of the history of science.\n2019, Daniel Taylor, Lionel Messi magic puts Barcelona in command of semi-final with Liverpool (in The Guardian, 1 May 2019)\nSadio Mané wasted a glorious chance in the first half and, late on, Mohamed Salah turned his shot against a post after a goal-line clearance had spun his way. 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