vast

See also VAST, and väst

English

Etymology

From Latin vastus (“void, immense”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: väst, IPA: /vɑːst/, SAMPA: /vA:st/
• (US) IPA: /væst/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːst

Adjective

vast (comparative vaster or more vast, superlative vastest or most vast)

1. Very large or wide (literally or figuratively).

   The Sahara desert is vast.

   There is a vast difference between them.

2. Very great in size, amount, degree, intensity, or especially extent.

Translations

very large or wide (literally or figuratively)

Bulgarian: обширен (bg) (obšíren) m., огромен (bg) (ogrómen) m. Chinese: 浩大的 Czech: rozlehlý (cs) m. Danish: enorm (da) Dutch: enorm (nl) Esperanto: vasta (eo) Finnish: valtava (fi), laaja (fi) French: vaste m./f. Galician: vasto (gl) German: beträchtlich (de) Greek: απέραντος m., απέραντη f., απέραντο n.

Hungarian: óriási (hu), hatalmas (hu) Italian: ampio (it) m., ampia (it) f. Japanese: 広大 (kōdai), 莫大 (bakudai) Korean: 광막한 Norwegian: enorm (no),voldsom (no) Polish: rozległy m., rozległa f., rozległe n. Portuguese: vasto (pt) m., vasta (pt) f. Russian: обширный (ru) (obšírnyj) Spanish: vasto (es) Swedish: enorm (sv)

Noun

vast (plural vasts)

1. (poetic) A vast space.
   • 1608: they have seemed to be together, though absent, shook hands, as over a vast, and embraced, as it were, from the ends of opposed winds. — William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, I.i

Derived terms

• vastly
• vastness
• ultravast

Statistics

• Most common English words before 1923: Rome · twelve · opposite · #972: vast · isn't · board · associated

Anagrams

• tavs
• vats

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑst
• IPA: /vɑst/

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *fastuz, from Proto-Indo-European *pasto- (“solid”).

Cognate via Germanic with English fast, German fest, Icelandic (and Faroese) fastur, Norwegian fast, and Swedish fast. Cognate via Proto-Indo-European with Armenian հաստ (hast, “thick”) and Sanskrit पस्त्य (pastyá).

Adjective

vast (comparative vaster, superlative meest vast or vastst)

1. firm, fast, tight, fixed

   Een knoop is een manier om een lijn (touw) min of meer blijvend ergens aan vast te maken, of om twee touwen aan elkaar vast te maken. — A knot is a manner of fastening more or less permanently a line of rope to something, or of fastening a pair of ropes to each other.

2. (chemistry) in the solid state
3. (botany) perennial
4. (of a telephone) using a landline

Declension

Declension of vast

		positive	comparative	superlative
				attributive	predicative/adverbial
predicative/adverbial		vast	vaster
neuter singular	indefinite	vast	vaster
	definite	vaste	vastere	vastste	het vastst(e)
common singular		vaste	vastere	vastste	de vastste
plural		vaste	vastere	vastste	de vastste
partitive		vasts	vasters

Derived terms

vastbinden vasthouden vastleggen vastlopen vastmaken vaststellen vastzitten rotsvast

Verb

vast

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of vasten.
2. imperative of vasten.

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Romani

Noun

vast m. (plural vast)

1. hand