Definitions
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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01“Notable or excellent”5 letters
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