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Definition of Vast
Vast

Waste; desert; desolate; lonely.

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

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

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

A waste region; boundless space; immensity.

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Vast Quotations

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
Saint Augustine

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
Mohandas Gandhi

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
Victor Hugo

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
Saint Augustine

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.
Aldous Huxley

Vast Translations

vast in Afrikaans is uitgestrek
vast in Dutch is royaal, ruim, breedvoerig, groot
vast in Finnish is avara
vast in German is ausgedehnt, ausgedehnte
vast in Hungarian is rengeteg
vast in Italian is vasto
vast in Latin is ingens
vast in Norwegian is vid
vast in Portuguese is vasto


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