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View definitions for great

great

adjective as in very good

adjective as in considerable in intensity or degree

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Tend to your own garden, to quote the great sage of free speech, Voltaire, and invite people to follow your example.

It would became one of the first great mysteries in the United States of America, as it was only then 23 years old.

Unfortunately, this is more about protecting the legacy of a ‘great man.’

Great American leaders have long contributed profound thoughts of tremendous consequence to the public discourse.

“He turned pale, trembled to a great degree, was much agitated, and began to cry,” she told the court.

"Capital, capital," his lordship would remark with great alacrity, when there was no other way of escape.

I waited three months more, in great impatience, then sent him back to the same post, to see if there might be a reply.

After a minute's pause, while he stood painfully silent, she resumed in great emotion.

The country is well inhabited, for it contains fifty-one cities, near a hundred walled towns, and a great number of villages.

This is a feature by means of which it is always possible to distinguish the Great Horsetail from any other species.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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