English Online Dictionary. What means vast? What does vast mean?
English
Etymology
From Middle French vaste, from Latin vastus (“void, immense”). Related to waste and German Wüste.
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: väst, IPA(key): /vɑːst/
- (US) IPA(key): /væst/
- Rhymes: -ɑːst
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.
Derived terms
Anagrams
- ATVs, VSAT, tavs, vats
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin vāstus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Central) [ˈbast]
- IPA(key): (Balearic, Valencian) [ˈvast]
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, 2024
- “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): /vɑst/
- Hyphenation: vast
- Rhymes: -ɑst
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch vast, from Old Dutch fast, from Proto-West Germanic *fastī, 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
- Berbice Creole Dutch: vasi
- Negerhollands: vast, vas
- →? Sranan Tongo: fasi, fasti
- → Caribbean Javanese: pasi, fasi
Adverb
vast
- (obsolete) almost; about; close to
- surely, certainly
- Synonym: zeker
- (informal, sarcastically) sure, yeah, right
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
vast
- inflection of vasten:
- first/second/third-person singular present indicative
- imperative
Estonian
Etymology
Of Finno-Mordvinic or Finno-Volgaic origin. Cognate to Finnish vasta, Votic vassõ, Northern Sami vuostá, Erzya вастомс (vastoms, “to meet; to receive”), Moksha васта (vasta, “place; distance”) and possibly Western Mari ваштареш (vaštareš, “against; across”).
Adverb
vast (not comparable)
- maybe, possibly
- recently, just, now
Derived terms
References
Ingrian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *vasta. Cognates include Finnish vasta and Estonian vast.
Pronunciation
- (Ala-Laukaa) IPA(key): /ˈʋɑst/, [ˈʋɑs̠t]
- (Soikkola) IPA(key): /ˈʋɑst/, [ˈʋɑʃt]
- Rhymes: -ɑst
- Hyphenation: vast
- Homophone: vasta
Adverb
vast
- just now
Synonyms
- ikkee
Preposition
vast (+ partitive)
- against, towards
Derived terms
References
- Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 645
Livonian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *vasta, from Proto-Finno-Permic *wasta (“a place opposite or across”). Cognate with Finnish vasta-, vastaan, vasten.
Preposition
vast
- against
Ludian
Etymology
Probably borrowed from Old East Slavic хвостъ (xvostŭ); see vasta.
Noun
vast
- bundle (of switches for the sauna)
Old Norse
Verb
vast
- second-person singular past active indicative of vera
Romani
Etymology
Inherited from Sanskrit हस्त (hasta). Compare Punjabi ਹੱਥ (hatth), Hindi हाथ (hāth), Bengali হাত (hat); compare also Persian دست (dast).
Noun
vast m (nominative plural vasta)
- (anatomy) hand
Derived terms
- del vast
References
- Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “vast”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 297
- Marcel Courthiade (2009) “o vast, -es- m. -a, -en-”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 373
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French vaste, from Latin vastus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
vast m or n (feminine singular vastă, masculine plural vaști, feminine and neuter plural vaste)
- vast
Declension
Related terms
- vastitate
Veps
Etymology
Probably borrowed from Old East Slavic хвостъ (xvostŭ); see vasta.
Noun
vast
- broom, whisk
- bath broom