Definitions for: Vast

[adj] unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope; "huge government spending"; "huge country estates"; "huge popular demand for higher education"; "a huge wave"; "the Los Angeles aqueduct winds like an immense snake along the base of the mountains"; "immense numbers of birds"; "at vast (or immense) expense"; "the vast reaches of outer space"; "the vast accumulation of knowledge...which we call civilization"- W.R.Inge

Webster (1913) Definition: Vast, a. [Compar. Vaster; superl. Vastest.] [L.
vastus empty, waste, enormous, immense: cf. F. vaste. See
Waste, and cf. Devastate.]
1. Waste; desert; desolate; lonely. [Obs.]

The empty, vast, and wandering air. --Shak.

2. Of great extent; very spacious or large; also, huge in
bulk; immense; enormous; as, the vast ocean; vast
mountains; the vast empire of Russia.

Through the vast and boundless deep. --Milton.

3. Very great in numbers, quantity, or amount; as, a vast
army; a vast sum of money.

4. Very great in importance; as, a subject of vast concern.

Syn: Enormous; huge; immense; mighty.

Vast, n.
A waste region; boundless space; immensity. ``The watery
vast.'' --Pope.

Michael bid sound The archangel trumpet. Through the
vast of heaven It sounded. --Milton.

Synonyms: big, huge, immense, large

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