vast

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Extremely large in size, amount, or extent.

   The desert stretched out in a vast empty plain.

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Simplified etymology

Vast entered English in the late 16th century from Latin vastus “unoccupied, uncultivated, void,” the same Latin source associated with waste and devastate.

From Middle French vaste, from Latin vastus (“void, immense”). Related to waste and German Wüste.

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