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great | popular |

As a verb great

is .

As an adjective popular is

popular.

great

English

(wikipedia great)

Adjective

(er)
  • Very big, large scale.
  • :
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
  • , chapter=1 citation , passage=“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like // Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=7 citation , passage=‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Timothy Garton Ash)
  • , volume=189, issue=6, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli , passage=Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.}}
  • Very good.
  • :
  • *, chapter=5
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights,
  • Important.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • *:He doth object I am too great of birth.
  • *
  • *:“[…] We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic?”
  • Title referring to an important leader.
  • :
  • Superior; admirable; commanding; applied to thoughts, actions, and feelings.
  • :
  • Endowed with extraordinary powers; uncommonly gifted; able to accomplish vast results; strong; powerful; mighty; noble.
  • :
  • (lb) Pregnant; large with young.
  • *(Bible), (Psalms) lxxviii. 71
  • *:the ewes great with young
  • More than ordinary in degree; very considerable.
  • :
  • *(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • *:We have all / Great' cause to give ' great thanks.
  • *
  • *:Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor;.
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  • Intimate; familiar.
  • *(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
  • *:those that are so great with him
  • Usage notes

    In simple situations, using modifiers of intensity such as fairly'', ''somewhat , etc. can lead to an awkward construction, with the exception of certain common expressions such as “so great” and “really great”. In particular “very great” is unusually strong as a reaction, and in many cases “great” or its meaning of “very good” will suffice.

    Synonyms

    * See also * See also

    Derived terms

    * great big * great chamber * great hall * great room * greatly * greatness

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • Expression of gladness and content about something.
  • Great! Thanks for the wonderful work.
  • sarcastic inversion thereof.
  • Oh, great! I just dumped all 500 sheets of the manuscript all over and now I have to put them back in order.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person of major significance, accomplishment or acclaim.
  • Newton and Einstein are two of the greats of the history of science.
  • A course of academic study devoted to the works of such persons and also known as Literae Humaniores ; the "Greats" name has official status with respect to 's program and is widely used as a colloquialism in reference to similar programs elsewhere.
  • Spencer read Greats at Oxford, taking a starred first.
  • (music) The main division in a pipe organ, usually the loudest division.
  • Adverb

    (-)
  • very well (in a very satisfactory manner)
  • Those mechanical colored pencils work great because they don't have to be sharpened.

    Derived terms

    * greatly * greatness (compound terms) * just great * great big * great aunt * Great Dane * great-granddaughter * great granddaughter * great-grandfather * great grandfather * great-grandmother * great grandmother * great-grandson * great grandson * great uncle * Great Wall of China * great white shark

    Statistics

    *

    popular

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Common among the general public; generally accepted.
  • * 2007 , Joe Queenan, The Guardian , 23 Aug 2007:
  • Contrary to popular misconception, MacArthur Park is not the worst song ever written.
  • (legal) Concerning the people; public.
  • Pertaining to or deriving from the people or general public.
  • * 1594 , (Richard Hooker), Preface :
  • At the coming of Calvin thither, the form of their civil regiment was popular , as it continueth at this day: neither king, nor duke, nor nobleman of any authority or power over them, but officers chosen by the people out of themselves, to order all things with public consent.
  • * 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 645:
  • Luther in popular memory had become a saint, his picture capable of saving houses from burning down, if it was fixed to the parlour wall.
  • * 2009 , Graham Smith, The Guardian , letter, 27 May 2009:
  • Jonathan Freedland brilliantly articulates the size and nature of the challenge and we must take his lead in setting out a radical agenda for a new republic based on the principle of popular sovereignty.
  • (obsolete) Of low birth, not noble; vulgar, plebian.
  • *, II.17:
  • *:Popular and shallow-headed mindes, cannot perceive the grace or comelinesse, nor judge of a smooth and quaint discourse.
  • Aimed at ordinary people, as opposed to specialists etc.; intended for general consumption.
  • * 2009 , ‘Meltdown’, The Economist , 8 Apr 2009:
  • As a work of popular science it is exemplary: the focus may be the numbers, but most of the mathematical legwork is confined to the appendices and the accompanying commentary is amusing and witty, as well as informed.
  • (obsolete) Cultivating the favour of the common people.
  • * Such popular humanity is treason. -
  • Liked by many people; generally pleasing, widely admired.
  • *{{quote-book, year=2006, author=(Edwin Black)
  • , chapter=2, title= Internal Combustion , passage=The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.}}
  • * 2011 , The Observer , 2 Oct.:
  • They might have split 24 years ago, but the Smiths remain as popular as ever, and not just among those who remember them first time around.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-03
  • , author=David S. Senchina, volume=101, issue=2, page=134, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= Athletics and Herbal Supplements , passage=Athletes' use of herbal supplements has skyrocketed in the past two decades. At the top of the list of popular herbs are echinacea and ginseng, whereas garlic, St. John's wort, soybean, ephedra and others are also surging in popularity or have been historically prevalent.}}
  • Adapted to the means of the common people; cheap.
  • Antonyms

    * anonymous * unpopular

    Derived terms

    * pop; pop art *

    References

    * 1000 English basic words ----