great : Idioms & Phrases

• adverb to a very great degree or extent
  very much; a lot; lots; a good deal; much.
  
  • I feel a lot better
  • we enjoyed ourselves very much
  • she was very much interested
  • this would help a great deal
• adverb frequently or in great quantities
  much; often.
  
  • I don't drink much
  • I don't travel much

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• twelve gross; one hundred and forty-four dozen.

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• noun king of Macedon; conqueror of Greece and Egypt and Persia; founder of Alexandria (356-323 BC)
  Alexander.
  

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• noun king of Wessex; defeated the Vikings and encouraged writing in English (849-899)
  Alfred.
  

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• noun (Roman Catholic Church) Greek patriarch of Alexandria who championed Christian orthodoxy against Arianism; a church father, saint, and Doctor of the Church (293-373)
  St. Athanasius; Saint Athanasius; Athanasius.
  

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• noun (Roman Catholic Church) the bishop of Caesarea who defended the Roman Catholic Church against the heresies of the 4th century; a saint and Doctor of the Church (329-379)
  Basil; St. Basil; Basil the Great; Basil of Caesarea.
  

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• noun an epithet for Jupiter
  Jupiter Optimus Maximus.
  

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• noun king of Denmark and Norway who forced Edmund II to divide England with him; on the death of Edmund II, Canute became king of all England (994-1035)
  Canute; Cnut; Knut.
  

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• noun empress of Russia who greatly increased the territory of the empire (1729-1796)
  Catherine; Catherine II.
  

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• noun king of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor; conqueror of the Lombards and Saxons (742-814)
  Charles I; Charles; Carolus; Charlemagne.
  

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• noun Emperor of Rome who stopped the persecution of Christians and in 324 made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire; in 330 he moved his capital from Rome to Byzantium and renamed it Constantinople (280-337)
  Constantine I; Constantine; Flavius Valerius Constantinus.
  

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• noun king of Persia and founder of the Persian Empire (circa 600-529 BC)
  Cyrus the Elder; Cyrus II.
  

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• noun king of Persia who expanded the Persian Empire and invaded Greece but was defeated at the battle of Marathon (550-486 BC)
  Darius I.
  

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• noun king of Castile and Leon who achieved control of the Moorish kings of Saragossa and Seville and Toledo (1016-1065)
  Ferdinand I.
  

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• noun king of Prussia from 1740 to 1786; brought Prussia military prestige by winning the War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War (1712-1786)
  Frederick II.
  

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• noun the muscle that adducts and extends the thigh
  musculus adductor magnus.
  

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• noun large shaggy-haired toothless anteater with long tongue and powerful claws; of South America
  ant bear; tamanoir; Myrmecophaga jubata; giant anteater.
  

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• noun any of the large anthropoid apes of the family Pongidae
  pongid.
  

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• noun a desert on the Arabian Peninsula in southwestern Asia
  Arabian Desert.
  

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• noun a massive grouping of galaxies in the direction of Centaurus and Hydra whose gravitational attraction is believed to cause deviations in the paths of other galaxies
  

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• noun large flightless auk of rocky islands off northern Atlantic coasts; extinct
  Pinguinus impennis.
  

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• noun a wide bay of the Indian Ocean in southern Australia; notorious for storms
  

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• noun general name given to all desert areas in Australia
  Australian Desert.
  

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• noun large (up to 6 ft) greyish-brown barracuda highly regarded as a food and sport fish; may be dangerous to swimmers
  Sphyraena barracuda.
  

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• noun the largest coral reef in the world; in the Coral Sea off the northeastern coast of Australia
  

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• noun a constellation outside the zodiac that rotates around the North Star
  Ursa Major.
  

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• (Astron.), the constellation Ursa Major.

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• adjective satellite having a prominent belly
  big-bellied.
  

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• noun white gull having a black back and wings
  Larus marinus; black-backed gull; cob.
  

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• noun large American heron having bluish-grey plumage
  Ardea herodius.
  

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• noun slender cosmopolitan, pelagic shark; blue body shades to white belly; dangerous especially during maritime disasters
  blue shark; Prionace glauca.
  

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• noun large bowerbird of northern Australia
  Chlamydera nuchalis.
  

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• noun a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom
  U.K.; Great Britain; Britain; UK; United Kingdom.
  
• noun an island comprising England and Scotland and Wales
  GB.
  

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• noun burdock having heart-shaped leaves found in open woodland, hedgerows and rough grassland of Europe (except extreme N) and Asia Minor; sometimes cultivated for medicinal and culinary use
  great burdock; Arctium lappa; cocklebur.
  

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• noun largest European land bird
  Otis tarda.
  

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• noun more attention and consideration than is normally bestowed by prudent persons
  
  • the pilot exercised great care in landing

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• (Law), all manner of cattle except sheep and yearlings. Wharton.

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• noun a cerebral vein formed by the two internal cerebral veins and continuing into the sinus rectus
  vena cerebri magna.
  

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• (Eng. Hist.), Magna Charta.

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• noun a circular line on the surface of a sphere formed by intersecting it with a plane passing through the center
  

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• a circle the plane of which passes through the center of the sphere.

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• the process or art of conducting a ship on a great circle of the globe or on the shortest arc between two places.

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• noun United States lawyer and politician who advocated free silver and prosecuted John Scopes (1925) for teaching evolution in a Tennessee high school (1860-1925)
  Bryan; Boy Orator of the Platte; William Jennings Bryan.
  

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• noun large Old World grebe with black ear tufts
  Podiceps cristatus.
  

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• noun very large powerful smooth-coated breed of dog
  

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• noun (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
  plenty; pot; sight; flock; mint; slew; mountain; deal; wad; muckle; pile; lot; mickle; raft; quite a little; passel; hatful; mess; spate; heap; peck; stack; good deal; batch; tidy sum; mass.
  
  • a batch of letters
  • a deal of trouble
  • a lot of money
  • he made a mint on the stock market
  • see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos
  • it must have cost plenty
  • a slew of journalists
  • a wad of money

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• noun the economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s
  
• noun a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment
  Depression.
  

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• noun that part of the continental divide formed by the Rocky Mountains in the United States
  

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• noun a mountain range running along the eastern coast of Australia
  Eastern Highlands.
  

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• noun a constellation to the southeast of Orion; contains Sirius
  Canis Major.
  

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• noun cosmopolitan except South America and New Zealand and some oceanic islands
  water flaxseed; Spirodela polyrrhiza.
  

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• noun the Elector of Brandenburg who rebuilt his domain after its destruction during the Thirty Years' War (1620-1688)
  Frederick William.
  

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• noun a town in central Montana on the Missouri river; a center of extensive hydroelectric power
  

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• the final examination for a degree at the University of Oxford, England; called also greats. T. Hughes.

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• noun a child of your grandson or granddaughter
  

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• noun a daughter of your grandson or granddaughter
  

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• noun a father of your grandparent
  

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• noun a mother of your grandparent
  

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• noun a parent of your grandparent
  

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• noun a son of your grandson or granddaughter
  

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• noun large dish-faced owl of northern North America and western Eurasia
  Strix nebulosa; great gray owl.
  

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• noun very large greyish-brown Australian kangaroo formerly abundant in open wooded areas
  Macropus giganteus; giant kangaroo.
  

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• noun large dish-faced owl of northern North America and western Eurasia
  Strix nebulosa; great gray owl.
  

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• noun a cardinal number equal to one dozen gross
  1728.
  

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• . (Naut.) See under Gun.

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• noun the principal hall in a castle or mansion; can be used for dining or entertainment
  

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• noun brown North American horned owl
  Bubo virginianus.
  

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• noun the cardinal number that is the product of ten and twelve
  120; long hundred.
  

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• noun a desert to the east of the Indus River in northwestern India and southeastern Pakistan
  Thar Desert.
  

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• noun tall European perennial having purple flower heads
  Centaurea scabiosa; great knapweed.
  

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• noun a group of five large, interconnected lakes in central North America
  

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• noun a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
  Michigan; Wolverine State; MI.
  

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• noun tall erect and very leafy perennial herb of eastern North America having dense spikes of blue flowers
  blue cardinal flower; Lobelia siphilitica.
  

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• noun Eurasian maple tree with pale grey bark that peels in flakes like that of a sycamore tree; leaves with five ovate lobes yellow in autumn
  sycamore; Acer pseudoplatanus; scottish maple.
  

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• . Same as Grand master, under Grand.

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• noun a glacier of the Piedmont type near Juneau in Alaska
  Mendenhall Glacier.
  

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• noun important for human and animal food; growth habit and stem form similar to Indian corn but having sawtooth-edged leaves
  Sorghum bicolor; kaffir; kaffir corn; kafir corn.
  

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• noun great nature goddess of ancient Phrygia in Asia Minor; counterpart of Greek Rhea and Roman Ops
  Dindymene; Mater Turrita; Magna Mater; Cybele.
  

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• noun tall-stalked very woolly mullein with densely packed yellow flowers; ancient Greeks and Romans dipped the stalks in tallow for funeral torches
  common mullein; woolly mullein; Aaron's rod; torch; flannel mullein; Verbascum thapsus.
  

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• (Mus.), the largest and loudest of the three parts of a grand organ (the others being the choir organ and the swell, and sometimes the pedal organ or foot keys), It is played upon by a separate keyboard, which has the middle position.

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• noun a vast prairie region extending from Alberta and Saskatchewan and Manitoba in Canada south through the west central United States into Texas; formerly inhabited by Native Americans
  Great Plains.
  

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• noun a vast prairie region extending from Alberta and Saskatchewan and Manitoba in Canada south through the west central United States into Texas; formerly inhabited by Native Americans
  Great Plains.
  

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• noun hairy plant with pinkish flowers; Great Plains to northern Mexico
  Castilleja sessiliflora.
  

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• noun a state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world
  power; superpower; world power; major power.
  

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• . See under Type.

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• noun a radical reform in China initiated by Mao Zedong in 1965 and carried out largely by the Red Guard; intended to eliminate counterrevolutionary elements in the government it resulted in purges of the intellectuals and socioeconomic chaos
  Cultural Revolution.
  

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• noun a massive monument with a square base and four triangular sides; begun by Cheops around 2700 BC as royal tombs in ancient Egypt
  Pyramid; Pyramids of Egypt.
  

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• noun bred of large heavy-coated white dogs resembling the Newfoundland
  

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• noun a coarse annual with some leaves deeply and palmately three-cleft or five-cleft
  Ambrosia trifida.
  

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• noun a widespread rebellion in 1381 against poll taxes and other inequities that oppressed the poorer people of England; suppressed by Richard II
  Peasant's Revolt.
  

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• noun ( geology) a depression in southwestern Asia and eastern Africa; extends from the valley of the Jordan River to Mozambique; marked by geological faults
  

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• noun a member of the chief stock of Russian people living in European Russia; used to distinguish ethnic Russians from other peoples incorporated into Russia
  

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• noun a salt desert in north central Iran
  Kavir Desert; Dasht-e-Kavir.
  

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• noun a shallow body of salt water in northwestern Utah
  

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• noun a desert in southern Saudi Arabia
  Ar Rimsal; Rub al-Khali; Dahna.
  
• noun a desert region in northwestern Australia to the north of the Gibson Desert
  

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• noun the longest vein in the body; runs from foot to the groin where it joins the femoral vein
  long saphenous vein.
  

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• (Mus.), the complete scale; employed to designate the entire series of musical sounds from lowest to highest.

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• noun the period from 1378 to 1417 during which there were two papacies in the Roman Catholic Church, one in Rome and one in Avignon
  

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• the Mediterranean sea. In Chaucer both the Black and the Mediterranean seas are so called.

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• noun the principal seal of a government, symbolizing authority or sovereignty
  

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• . (a) The principal seal of a kingdom or state. (b) In Great Britain, the lord chancellor (who is custodian of this seal); also, his office. #sp in original, "Britain" was "Britian"

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• noun the seal of the United States government
  

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• noun large brown skua of the northern Atlantic
  Catharacta skua.
  

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• noun a lake in the Northwest Territories in northwestern Canada; drained by the Mackenzie River
  

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• noun part of the Appalachians between North Carolina and Tennessee
  

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• noun a national park in Tennessee and North Carolina that includes the highest mountain in the eastern United States
  

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• noun Old World snipe larger and darker than the whole snipe
  woodcock snipe; Gallinago media.
  

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• noun North American perennial herb with smooth foliage and drooping tubular greenish flowers
  Polygonatum biflorum; Polygonatum commutatum.
  

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• noun perennial shrub having large star-shaped yellow flowers in narrowly pyramidal cymes
  Hypericum ascyron; Hypericum pyramidatum.
  

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• . See under Tithes.

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• noun the first largest innermost toe
  hallux; big toe.
  

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• noun a desert region in south central Australia to the north of the Nullarbor Plain
  

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• noun a fortification 1,500 miles long built across northern China in the 3rd century BC; it averages 6 meters in width
  Great Wall; Chinese Wall.
  

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• noun a fortification 1,500 miles long built across northern China in the 3rd century BC; it averages 6 meters in width
  Great Wall; Chinese Wall.
  

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• noun a war between the allies (Russia, France, British Empire, Italy, United States, Japan, Rumania, Serbia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Montenegro) and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria) from 1914 to 1918
  World War I; World War 1; War to End War; First World War.
  

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• noun a common egret of the genus Egretta found in America; it is a variety of the Old World white egret Casmerodius albus
  American egret; Egretta albus.
  
• noun widely distributed Old World white egret
  Casmerodius albus.
  
• noun large white heron of Florida and the Florida Keys
  Ardea occidentalis.
  

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• noun someone (or something) expected to achieve great success in a given field
  white hope.
  
  • this company is the great white hope of the nuclear industry's waste management policy

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• noun large aggressive shark widespread in warm seas; known to attack humans
  man-eating shark; Carcharodon carcharias; white shark; man-eater.
  

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• noun a street in Manhattan that passes through Times Square; famous for its theaters
  Broadway.
  

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• noun time required for one complete cycle of the precession of the equinoxes, about 25,800 years
  Platonic year.
  

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• noun robust European perennial having clusters of yellow flowers
  Gentiana lutea.
  

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• noun perennial herb found on streams and riversides throughout Europe except extreme north and Mediterranean; sometimes placed in genus Nasturtium
  Nasturtium amphibium; Rorippa amphibia.
  

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• noun an aunt of your father or mother
  grandaunt.
  

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Great"-bel`lied adjective

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1. Having a great belly, bigbellied; pregnant; teeming. Shak.

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Great"-grand"child` noun

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1. The child of one's grandson or granddaughter.

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Great"-grand"daugh`ter noun

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1. A daughter of one's grandson or granddaughter.

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Great"-grand"fa`ther noun

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1. The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.

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Great"-grand"moth`er noun

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1. The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.

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Great"-grand"son` noun

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1. A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.

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Great"-heart`ed adjective

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1. High-spirited; fearless. Obs. Clarendon.
2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.

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Great"-heart`ed*ness noun

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1. The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.

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• noun large deciduous shrub or tree of southeastern United States having huge leaves in dense false whorls and large creamy flowers tinged purple toward the base
  large-leaved magnolia; large-leaved cucumber tree; Magnolia macrophylla.
  

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• noun a son of your niece or nephew
  grandnephew.
  

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• noun a daughter of your niece or nephew
  grandniece.
  

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• noun an uncle of your father or mother
  granduncle.
  

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• noun a group of islands in the western West Indies
  

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• noun burdock having heart-shaped leaves found in open woodland, hedgerows and rough grassland of Europe (except extreme N) and Asia Minor; sometimes cultivated for medicinal and culinary use
  great burdock; Arctium lappa; cocklebur.
  

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• noun south European orchid with dark green flowers that are larger and less fragrant than Platanthera bifolia; sometimes placed in genus Habenaria
  Habenaria chlorantha; Platanthera chlorantha.
  

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• noun perennial herb with branched woody stock and bright yellow flowers
  swallowwort; swallow wort; celandine; Chelidonium majus.
  

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• noun tall European perennial having purple flower heads
  Centaurea scabiosa; great knapweed.
  

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• noun a variety of kudu
  Tragelaphus strepsiceros.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center
  British capital; London; capital of the United Kingdom.
  

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• noun European herb with aromatic roots and leaves in a basal tuft and showy compound umbels of white to rosy flowers
  Astrantia major.
  

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• noun twin cantilever bridges across the Mississippi at New Orleans
  

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• noun the largest city in New York State and in the United States; located in southeastern New York at the mouth of the Hudson river; a major financial and cultural center
  New York; New York City.
  

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• noun part of the peritoneum attached to the stomach and to the colon and covering the intestines
  caul; gastrocolic omentum.
  

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• noun a skeletal muscle that adducts and rotates the arm
  musculus pectoralis major; pectoralis major.
  

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• noun the interior of the peritoneum; a potential space between layers of the peritoneum
  peritoneal cavity.
  

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• noun of southern South America
  Burmeisteria retusa.
  

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• noun the most common variety of prairie chicken
  Tympanuchus cupido.
  

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• noun rhomboid muscle that draws the scapula toward the spinal column
  rhomboideus major muscle; musculus rhomboideus major.
  

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• noun large scaup of North America having a greenish iridescence on the head of the male
  Aythya marila.
  

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• noun semiaquatic European crowfoot with leaves shaped like spears
  Ranunculus lingua.
  

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• noun low-growing north temperate herb having small white star-shaped flowers; named for its alleged ability to ease sharp pains in the side
  stitchwort; starwort; Stellaria holostea.
  

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• noun a chain of islands including Borneo and Celebes and Java and Sumatra
  

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• noun the largest of the four Swiss breeds
  

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• noun large stout white-flowered perennial found wild in shallow fresh water; Europe
  Sium latifolium.
  

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• noun greyish-brown Old World warbler with a white throat and underparts
  Sylvia communis; whitethroat.
  

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• noun a variety of yellowlegs
  Tringa melanoleuca.
  

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• noun the largest integer that divides without remainder into a set of integers
  greatest common divisor; highest common factor.
  

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• noun the largest integer that divides without remainder into a set of integers
  greatest common divisor; highest common factor.
  

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• noun (Roman Catholic Church) an Italian pope distinguished for his spiritual and temporal leadership; a saint and Doctor of the Church (540?-604)
  Gregory I; St. Gregory I; Gregory; Saint Gregory I.
  

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• noun king of France from 1589 to 1610; although he was leader of the Huguenot armies, when he succeeded the Catholic Henry III and founded the Bourbon dynasty in 1589 he established religious freedom in France;
  Henry IV; Henry of Navarre.
  

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• noun king of Judea who (according to the New Testament) tried to kill Jesus by ordering the death of all children under age two in Bethlehem (73-4 BC)
  Herod.
  

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• adverb in disorderly haste
  head over heels; heels over head; topsy-turvily; topsy-turvy.
  
  • we ran head over heels toward the shelter

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• noun a Turkish terrorist organization that claimed responsibility for bombing a British consulate and bank in Istanbul; a violent opponent of Turkey's secular government and its ties to the European Union and NATO
  IBDA-C.
  

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• noun grand duke of Muscovy whose victories against the Tartars laid the basis for Russian unity (1440-1505)
  Ivan III; Ivan III Vasilievich.
  

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• noun Byzantine emperor who held the eastern frontier of his empire against the Persians; codified Roman law in 529; his general Belisarius regained North Africa and Spain (483-565)
  Justinian I; Justinian.
  

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• noun Hawaiian king who united the islands under his rule (1758-1819)
  Kamehameha I.
  

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• a high officer of state, who has custody of the great seal. The office is now united with that of lord chancellor. Eng.

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• noun the sovereign ruler of England
  King of England.
  

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• noun Italian pope from 440 to 461 who extended the authority of the papacy to the west and persuaded Attila not to attack Rome (440-461)
  Leo I; St. Leo I.
  

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• noun king of France from 1643 to 1715; his long reign was marked by the expansion of French influence in Europe and by the magnificence of his court and the Palace of Versailles (1638-1715)
  Sun King; Louis XIV.
  

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• noun ancient king of Pontus who expanded his kingdom by defeating the Romans but was later driven out by Pompey (132-63 BC)
  Mithridates; Mithridates VI.
  

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• of no great importance. Slang Byron.

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• noun King of the Germans and Holy Roman Emperor (912-973)
  Otho I; Otto I.
  

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• noun czar of Russia who introduced ideas from western Europe to reform the government; he extended his territories in the Baltic and founded St. Petersburg (1682-1725)
  Peter I; Czar Peter I.
  

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• noun Roman general and statesman who quarrelled with Caesar and fled to Egypt where he was murdered (106-48 BC)
  Pompey; Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus.
  

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• noun king of Egypt between 1304 and 1237 BC who built many monuments
  Rameses the Great; Ramesses II; Ramses II; Ramesses the Great; Rameses II.
  

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• noun king of Egypt between 1304 and 1237 BC who built many monuments
  Rameses the Great; Ramesses II; Ramses II; Ramesses the Great; Rameses II.
  

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• noun king of Egypt between 1304 and 1237 BC who built many monuments
  Rameses the Great; Ramesses II; Ramses II; Ramesses the Great; Rameses II.
  

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• noun (Roman Catholic Church) the bishop of Caesarea who defended the Roman Catholic Church against the heresies of the 4th century; a saint and Doctor of the Church (329-379)
  Basil; St. Basil; Basil the Great; Basil of Caesarea.
  

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• the eminent, distinguished, or powerful.

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• noun a famine in Ireland resulting from a potato blight; between 1846 and 1851 a million people starved to death and 1.6 million emigrated (most to America)
  the Great Hunger; the Irish Famine; the Great Calamity.
  

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• noun the royal charter of political rights given to rebellious English barons by King John in 1215
  Magna Charta; Magna Carta.
  

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• noun United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states (1777-1852)
  Henry Clay; Clay.
  

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• noun a famine in Ireland resulting from a potato blight; between 1846 and 1851 a million people starved to death and 1.6 million emigrated (most to America)
  the Great Hunger; the Irish Famine; the Great Calamity.
  

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• the large fresh-water lakes (Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario) which lie on the northern borders of the United States.

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• (of Europe), in modern diplomacy, Great Britain, France, Germany, Austria, Russia, and Italy.

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• among the North American Indians, their chief or principal deity.

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• noun a famine in Ireland resulting from a potato blight; between 1846 and 1851 a million people starved to death and 1.6 million emigrated (most to America)
  the Great Hunger; the Irish Famine; the Great Calamity.
  

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• noun the common people generally
  people; masses; mass; hoi polloi; multitude.
  
  • separate the warriors from the mass
  • power to the people

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• noun the last emperor of a united Roman Empire, he took control of the eastern empire and ended the war with the Visigoths; he became a Christian and in 391 banned all forms of pagan worship (346-395)
  Theodosius I; Theodosius; Flavius Theodosius.
  

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• adverb to a considerable degree
  heavily.
  
  • he relied heavily on others' data

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• adverb used to form the comparative of some adjectives and adverbs
  more.
  
  • more interesting
  • more beautiful
  • more quickly

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• (with one), to be intimate or familiar (with him). Bacon.

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• to blow furiously and with roaring blasts; said of the wind at sea or along the coast.
• (Naut.), to blow a gale. See Gun, n., 3.

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• to be inclined or strongly inclined in purpose; used with an infinitive. "Sir Roger de Coverly... told me that he had a great mind to see the new tragedy with me." Addison.

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• to place it in the hands of a commissioner or commissioners during the abeyance of the ordinary administration, as between the going out of one lord keeper and accession of another. Eng.

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Tun"-great` adjective

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1. Having the circumference of a tun. Obs. Chaucer.

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• noun a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom
  U.K.; Great Britain; Britain; UK; United Kingdom.
  

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• noun king of Persia who led a vast army against Greece and won the battle of Thermopylae but was eventually defeated (519-465 BC)
  Xerxes I.
  

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