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great

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"Notable or excellent"

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5 lettersPronunciation /ˈɡɹeɪt/Part of speech adjective, nounSorted aegrtStarts with GEnds with T1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Very good, large, important, or impressive.

Word origin

From Middle English greet, grete (“great, large”), from Old English grēat (“big, massive; tall; thick; coarse”), from Proto-West Germanic *graut, from Proto-Germanic *grautaz (“coarse, crude; big, large”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrewd-, *gʰer- (“to rub; to stroke; to grind; to remove”).

Used in a sentence

  • great worry
  • “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?”
  • The first half of this century has been referred to as the golden age of medicine. To me it seems more probable that we are on the threshold of a much greater age.

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