Usually means: Exceptional quality, above average excellence.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. great: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. great, the Great, the great: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. great: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. great, great-: Collins English Dictionary
  5. great: Vocabulary.com
  6. Great, great, the great: Wordnik
  7. great, great-: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. great, great-: Wiktionary
  9. great, great-: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. great, great-: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. great: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Great, great, the great: Dictionary.com
  13. great: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. great, great-: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Great (Idles song), Great (disambiguation), Great, The Great (miniseries), The Great, The great: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Great: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. great: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. great: Rhymezone
  19. great: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. great: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. GREAT: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. Great: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. great, the great: Free Dictionary
  24. great: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. The great, great, great-: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. great: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Great, great: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. great: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. GREAT: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. The Great, great: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. GREAT: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. great, great, great: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Great, great-: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Taking much space; large.
adjective:  (of an abstract noun) Much, more than usual.
adjective:  (informal, British) Intensifying a word or expression, used in mild oaths.
adjective:  (informal) Very good; excellent; wonderful; fantastic.
adjective:  Important, consequential.
adjective:  (qualifying nouns of family relationship) Involving more generations than the qualified word implies — as many extra generations as repetitions of the word great (from 1510s). [see Derived terms]
adjective:  (obsolete, postpositive, followed by 'with') Pregnant; large with young; full of.
adjective:  (obsolete, except with 'friend' and similar words such as 'mate', 'buddy') Intimate; familiar.
adjective:  (applied to actions, thoughts and feelings) Arising from or possessing idealism; admirable; commanding; illustrious; eminent.
adjective:  Impressive or striking.
adjective:  Much in use; favoured.
adjective:  (applied to persons) Of much talent or achievements.
adjective:  Doing or exemplifying (a characteristic or pursuit) on a large scale; active or enthusiastic.
noun:  A person of major significance, accomplishment or acclaim.
noun:  (music) The main division in a pipe organ, usually the loudest division.
noun:  (in combinations such as "two-greats", "three-greats" etc.) An instance of the word "great" signifying an additional generation in phrases expressing family relationships.
adverb:  (informal) Very well (in a very satisfactory manner).

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