• Czech: veliký
• French: grand , grande
• German: groß
• Hebrew: גדול (gɑdol) , גדולה (gdolɑ)
• Ido: granda
• Italian: grande
• Kurdish:
• Russian: великий (velíkij)
• Scots: greet
• Serbian: veliko
• Spanish: gran, grande

• Czech: skvělý
• French: superb, fameux
• German: schön, fein, wundervoll
• Hebrew: מעולֵה (meʿule) , מעולָה (meʿulɑ)
  • נהדר (nehedɑr) , נהדרת (nehederet)
  • נפלא (niflɑ) , נפלאה (niflɑʾɑ)
• Ido: brava, tre bona
• Italian: bene
• Kurdish:
• Russian: великий (velíkij)
• Serbian: odličan, izvrstan
• Spanish: muy bueno

• Aramaic:

  Syriac: ܪܒܐ (rabā, rabo) , ܪܒܬܐ (rabtā, rabto)

  Hebrew: רבא (rabā, rabo) , רבתא (rabtā, rabto)

• Armenian: մեծ (metz)
• Caspian:

  Gileki: (pile)

  Mazanderani: (geat)

• Chinese: 繁體, 简体 (jiǎntǐ); 偉大, 伟大 (wěidà)
• Danish: fed
• German: groß, weit, ausgedehnt; [3] bedeutend
• Greek: μεγάλος, ευμεγέθης, εξαιρετικός, θαυμάσιος, περίφημος
• Icelandic: stór
• Ido: granda
• Italian: grande
• Indonesian: hebat, agung, besar
• Japanese: すごい (sugoi), 大きい (おおきい, ōkii), 偉大な (いだいな, idaina)
• Polish: wielki , wielka , wielkie
• Russian: великий (velíkij)
• Scots: greet
• Serbian: veliki , velika , veliko , istaknuto
• Spanish: gran, grande; [3] importante
• Swedish: fantastisk, enorm, betydelsefull

Interjection

1. Expression of gladness and content about something.

   Great! Thanks for the wonderful work.

2. sarcastic inversion thereof.

   Oh, great! I just dumped all 500 sheets of the manuscript all over and now I have to put them back in order.

Translations

Noun

1. A person of major significance, accomplishment or acclaim.

   Newtin and Einstein are two of the greats of the history of science.

Derived terms

rel-top compound terms

• just great
• great big
• great aunt
• Great Dane
• great-granddaughter
• great granddaughter
• great-grandfather
• great grandfather
• great-grandmother
• great grandmother
• great-grandson
• great grandson
• great uncle
• Great Wall of China
• great white shark

Old English

Etymology

West *grauta.

Adjective

grēat

1. great

Great may mean:

• Greatness, the state of being superior, majestic, transcendent, or divine
• GREAT, Gang Resistance Education and Training
• GReAT, Graph Rewriting and Transformation, a Model Transformation Language
• Great (film), a British animated short about Isambard Kingdom Brunel by Bob Godfrey
• Great (supermarket), an upscale supermarket in Hong Kong operated by PARKnSHOP

See also

• List of people known as The Great

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