See vast in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "The exiguity and ſmallneſſe of ſome ſeeds extending to large productions is one of the magnalities of nature, ſomewhat illuſtrating the work of the Creation, and vaſt production from nothing.",
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"ref": "1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 703:",
"text": "Another place where, from the aesthetic point of view, a long tunnel would have been a real blessing, is East London as viewed from the carriage window on the old Great Eastern line. Despite a vast change from crowded slums to tracts of wasteland, due to its grim wartime experience, this approach still provides a shabby and unworthy introduction to the great capital.",
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"ref": "2012 March-April, Anna Lena Phillips, “Sneaky Silk Moths”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 172:",
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{
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"2": "la",
"3": "vastus",
"t": "void, immense"
},
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},
{
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"2": "Wüste"
},
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},
{
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"2": "ine-pro",
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"forms": [
{
"form": "vasts",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
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"categories": [
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"English terms with quotations"
],
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{
"ref": "c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A vast space."
],
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"(poetic) A vast space."
],
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"Received-Pronunciation"
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},
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"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/vast/",
"tags": [
"Northern-England",
"Scotland"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/væst/",
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"US"
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},
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{
"rhymes": "-æst"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɑːst"
}
],
"word": "vast"
}
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