vast

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Adjective 1.3.1 Translations 1.4 Noun 1.5 Derived terms 1.6 Anagrams 2 Dutch 2.1 Adjective 2.1.1 Derived terms 2.2 Verb 3 Romani 3.1 Noun

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From Latin vastus (“‘void, immense’”).

[edit] Pronunciation

• enPR: väst, IPA: /vɑːst/, SAMPA: /vA:st/
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  Rhymes: -ɑːst

[edit] 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.

[edit] Translations

[edit] 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

[edit] Derived terms

• vastly
• vastness
• ultravast

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: astv
• tavs
• vats

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[edit] Dutch

[edit] Adjective

vast (inflected vaste)

1. firm; fast (as in tight)

   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 someplace, or of fastening a pair of ropes to each other.

2. (chemistry) solid (i.e. in the solid state)
3. (botany) perennial

[edit] Derived terms

vastbinden vasthouden vastleggen vastlopen vastmaken vaststellen vastzitten rotsvast

[edit] Verb

vast

1. singular present tense of vasten
2. imperative form of vasten

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[edit] Romani

[edit] Noun

vast m. (plural vast)

1. hand