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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Vast \Vast\, noun A waste region; boundless space; immensity. ''The watery vast.'' --Pope.
Michael bid sound The archangel trumpet. Through the vast of heaven It sounded. --Milton.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Vast \Vast\, adjective [Compar. {Vaster}; superl. {Vastest}.] [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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
vast
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 [syn: {huge}, {immense}, {Brobdingnagian}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
80 Moby Thesaurus words for "vast": Atlantean, Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean, Gargantuan, Herculean, Homeric, abysmal, ample, amplitudinous, astronomic, astronomical, awesome, behemoth, big, boundless, broad, bulky, capacious, colossal, commodious, cosmic, deep, elephantine, endless, enormous, epic, expansive, extended, extending, extensive, far-flung, far-reaching, galactic, giant, giantlike, gigantic, great, heroic, huge, humongous, immeasurable, immense, incalculable, indeterminate, inexhaustible, infinite, interminable, jumbo, king-size, large, limitless, mammoth, massive, massy, measureless, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, never-ending, outsize, overgrown, prodigious, profound, roomy, sizable, spacious, spreading, stupendous, titanic, towering, tremendous, unbounded, unlimited, voluminous, weighty, whopping, wide, widespread
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
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