VAST

huge, immense, vast, Brobdingnagian

(adjective) unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope; “huge government spending”; “huge country estates”; “huge popular demand for higher education”; “a huge wave”; “the Los Angeles aqueduct winds like an immense snake along the base of the mountains”; “immense numbers of birds”; “at vast (or immense) expense”; “the vast reaches of outer space”; “the vast accumulation of knowledge...which we call civilization”- W.R.Inge

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

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

Very large or wide (literally or figuratively).

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

(obsolete) Waste; desert; desolate; lonely.

Noun

vast (plural vasts)

(poetic) A vast space.

Anagrams

• ATVs, VSAT, tavs, vats

Noun

VAST (plural VASTs)

Acronym of visual audio sensory theater.

(ESA, volcanology) Acronym of volcanic ash strategic initiative team.

Anagrams

• ATVs, VSAT, tavs, vats

Source: Wiktionary


Vast, a. [Compar. Vaster; superl. Vastest.] Etym: [L. vastus empty, waste, enormous, immense: cf. F. vaste. See Waste, and cf. Devastate.]

1. Waste; desert; desolate; lonely. [Obs.] The empty, vast, and wandering air. Shak.

2. Of great extent; very spacious or large; also, huge in bulk; immense; enormous; as, the vast ocean; vast mountains; the vast empire of Russia. Through the vast and boundless deep. Milton.

3. Very great in numbers, quantity, or amount; as, a vast army; a vast sum of money.

4. Very great in importance; as, a subject of vast concern.

Syn.

– Enormous; huge; immense; mighty.

Vast, n.

Definition: A waste region; boundless space; immensity. "The watery vast." Pope. Michael bid sound The archangel trumpet. Through the vast of heaven It sounded. Milton.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by Alcaldía Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de Bolívar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.

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