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vast
English
Etymology
From Middle French vaste, from Latin vastus (“void, immense”). Doublet of fada.
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: väst, IPA(key): /v??st/
- (US) IPA(key): /væst/
- Rhymes: -??st
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.
Translations
Noun
vast (plural vasts)
- (poetic) A vast space.
- 1608, William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, I.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.
- 1608, William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, I.i
Derived terms
Anagrams
- ATVs, VSAT, tavs, vats
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin v?stus.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /?vast/
- (Central) IPA(key): /?bast/
Adjective
vast (feminine vasta, masculine plural vasts or vastos, feminine plural vastes)
- vast, wide
Related terms
- vastitud
Further reading
- “vast” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “vast” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “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.
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /v?st/
- Hyphenation: vast
- Rhymes: -?st
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch vast, from Old Dutch fast, from Proto-Germanic *fastuz.
Adjective
vast (comparative vaster, superlative meest vast or vastst)
- firm, fast, tight
- fixed, not moving or changing
- stuck, unable to get out
- (chemistry) in the solid state
- (botany) perennial
- (of a telephone) using a landline
Inflection
Derived terms
Descendants
- Afrikaans: vas
Adverb
vast
- surely, certainly
- Synonym: zeker
- (informal, sarcastically) sure, yeah, right
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
vast
- first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of vasten
- imperative of vasten
Estonian
Etymology
Of Finno-Mordvinic or Finno-Volgaic origin. Cognate to Finnish vasta, Votic vassa, Northern Sami vuostá, Erzya ??????? (vastoms, “to meet; to receive”), Moksha ????? (vasta, “place; distance”) and possibly Western Mari ???????? (?aštareš, “against; across”).
Adverb
vast
- maybe, possibly
- recently, just, now
Derived terms
References
Livonian
Etymology
Akin to Finnish vasten
Preposition
vast
- against
Ludian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *vasta.
Noun
vast
- bundle (of switches for the sauna)
Romani
Etymology
Perhaps from Sanskrit ???? (hásta), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *??ástas, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *???ástas, from Proto-Indo-European *??és-to- (“hand”) < *??es-. Compare Punjabi ??? (hatth), Hindi ??? (h?th), Bengali ??? (hat); compare also Persian ???? (dast).
Noun
vast m (plural vasta)
- (anatomy) hand
Romanian
Etymology
From French vaste, from Latin vastus.
Adjective
vast m or n (feminine singular vast?, masculine plural va?ti, feminine and neuter plural vaste)
- vast
Declension
Related terms
- vastitate
Veps
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *vasta.
Noun
vast
- bundle (of switches for the sauna)
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collection
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French collection, from Latin coll?cti?, coll?cti?nem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??l?k??n/
- Rhymes: -?k??n
- Hyphenation: col?lec?tion
Noun
collection (countable and uncountable, plural collections)
- A set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together.
- 1837, William Whewell, History of the Inductive Sciences
- collections of moisture
- 1887, Robert Bartholow, A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine
- a purulent collection
- 1837, William Whewell, History of the Inductive Sciences
- Multiple related objects associated as a group.
- The activity of collecting.
- (topology, mathematical analysis) A set of sets.
- A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations.
- (law) Debt collection.
- (obsolete) The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
- (Britain) The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
- (in the plural, Britain, Oxford University) A set of college exams generally taken at the start of the term.
- The quality of being collected; calm composure.
Derived terms
Translations
French
Alternative forms
- c., coll. (abbreviations)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin coll?cti?, coll?cti?nem. Cf. also Old French quieuçon, which may be inherited from the same source, and the modern cueillaison, which was probably formed analogically.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?.l?k.sj??/
- Rhymes: -??
- Homophone: collections
- Hyphenation: col?lec?tion
Noun
collection f (plural collections)
- collection
Derived terms
- collec
- collectionner
- collectionneur
- collectionnite
Related terms
- collecte
- collecter
- cueillette
- cueillir
Further reading
- “collection” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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