vast
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle French vaste, from Latin vastus (“void, immense”). Related to waste and German Wüste.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
vast (comparative vaster or more vast, superlative vastest or most vast)
- Very large or wide (literally or figuratively).
- The Sahara desert is vast.
- There is a vast difference between them.
- Very great in size, amount, degree, intensity, or especially extent.
- 1658, Thomas Browne, “The Garden of Cyrus. […]. Chapter III.”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], OCLC 48702491; reprinted as Hydriotaphia (The English Replicas), New York, N.Y.: Payson & Clarke Ltd., 1927, OCLC 78413388, page 136:
- The exiguity and ſmallneſſe of ſome ſeeds extending to large productions is one of the magnalities of nature, ſomewhat illuſtrating the work of the Creation, and vaſt production from nothing.
- 2012 March-April, Anna Lena Phillips, “Sneaky Silk Moths”, in American Scientist[1], volume 100, number 2, page 172:
- Last spring, the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals.
- (obsolete) Waste; desert; desolate; lonely.
- c. 1593, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene iv]:
- the empty, vast, and wandering air
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NounEdit
vast (plural vasts)
- (poetic) A vast space.
- c. 1610–1611, William Shakespeare, “The VVinters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene i]:
- 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.
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AdjectiveEdit
vast (feminine vasta, masculine plural vasts or vastos, feminine plural vastes)
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Further readingEdit
- “vast” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “vast”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2022
- “vast” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “vast” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
DutchEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle Dutch vast, from Old Dutch fast, from Proto-West Germanic *fastī, from Proto-Germanic *fastuz.
AdjectiveEdit
vast (comparative vaster, superlative meest vast or vastst)
- firm, fast, tight
- fixed, not moving or changing
- Kunnen we de vaste lasten dragen?
- Can we sustain the fixed costs?
- stuck, unable to get out
- Haar hand zat vast in het gat.
- Her hand was stuck in the hole.
- (chemistry) in the solid state
- Bij kamertemperatuur is het een vaste stof.
- It is a solid substance at room temperature.
- (botany) perennial
- Hij heeft een aantal vaste planten gepoot.
- He has planted a few perennial plants.
- (of a telephone) using a landline
- Is er een vaste verbinding?
- Is there a landline connection?
InflectionEdit
Inflection of vast | ||||
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uninflected | vast | |||
inflected | vaste | |||
comparative | vaster | |||
positive | comparative | superlative | ||
predicative/adverbial | vast | vaster | het vastst het vastste | |
indefinite | m./f. sing. | vaste | vastere | vastste |
n. sing. | vast | vaster | vastste | |
plural | vaste | vastere | vastste | |
definite | vaste | vastere | vastste | |
partitive | vasts | vasters | — |
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AdverbEdit
vast
- (obsolete) almost; about; close to
- surely, certainly
- Synonym: zeker
- (informal, sarcastically) sure, yeah, right
- Mijn hond at mijn huiswerk. — Ja, vast!
- My dog ate my homework. — Yeah, right!
Etymology 2Edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
VerbEdit
vast
- first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of vasten
- imperative of vasten
EstonianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Of Finno-Mordvinic or Finno-Volgaic origin. Cognate to Finnish vasta, Votic vassa, Northern Sami vuostá, Erzya вастомс (vastoms, “to meet; to receive”), Moksha васта (vasta, “place; distance”) and possibly Western Mari ваштареш (βaštareš, “against; across”).[1]
AdverbEdit
vast
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LivonianEdit
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vast
LudianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Probably borrowed from Old East Slavic хвостъ (xvostŭ); see vasta.
NounEdit
vast
- bundle (of switches for the sauna)
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vast
RomaniEdit
EtymologyEdit
Inherited from Sanskrit हस्त (hasta). Compare Punjabi ਹੱਥ (hatth), Hindi हाथ (hāth), Bengali হাত (hat); compare also Persian دست (dast).
NounEdit
vast m (nominative plural vasta)
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ReferencesEdit
- Boretzky, Norbert; Igla, Birgit (1994), “vast”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 297
- Marcel Courthiade (2009), “o vast, -es- m. -a, -en-”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (in Hungarian; English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 373
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From French vaste, from Latin vastus.
AdjectiveEdit
vast m or n (feminine singular vastă, masculine plural vaști, feminine and neuter plural vaste)
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VepsEdit
EtymologyEdit
Probably borrowed from Old East Slavic хвостъ (xvostŭ); see vasta.
NounEdit
vast
- bundle (of switches for the sauna)