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# vast

«vast» in Mova's school dictionary: **Extremely large in size, amount or area** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (vast, vaster, vastest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Extremely large in size, amount or area. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vast/#m1)

2) «The vast majority» means nearly all. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vast/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and science: vast oceans, deserts, space. In stories: a vast hall or forest sets a scene that feels huge. In maths and data: «the vast majority» means much more than half, usually nearly all.

### examples

- The Pacific is a vast ocean. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vast/#x1)
- Space is so vast that light takes years to cross it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vast/#x2)
- They walked across a vast, empty desert. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vast/#x3)
- The vast majority of the class passed the test. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vast/#x4)
- A vast crowd filled the stadium. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vast/#x5)
- The library has a vast number of books. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vast/#x6)
- Empty, vast, and cold were the halls of the Snow Queen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vast/#x7)

### note

Stronger than «big» or «large». «Vastly» = very much: vastly different. «The vast majority» is used with countable nouns and means far more than half.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «vast» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vast/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.