Vant vs Vast - What's the difference?
vant | vast |
* {{quote-book, year=1890, author=John Habberton, title=All He Knew, chapter=, edition=
, passage="Come, now, deacon," said the shopkeeper, abruptly dropping the cat, "you can turn up your nose at my ideas all you vant , but you mustn't turn it up at my shurch. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=Various, title=Best Short Stories, chapter=, edition=
, passage="Ay vant to get married," blushed Pete, who is by way of being a Scandinavian. }}
* {{quote-news, year=1992, date=January 17, author=Jonathan Rosenbaum, title=Sex and Drugs and Death and Writing, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=His boss, A.J. Cohen, is livid: "You vant I should spit right in your face!? }}
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==Norwegian Bokmål==
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Very large or wide (literally or figuratively).
Very great in size, amount, degree, intensity, or especially extent.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
, author=Anna Lena Phillips
, title=Sneaky Silk Moths
, volume=100, issue=2, page=172
, magazine=(American Scientist)
(obsolete) Waste; desert; desolate; lonely.
* William Shakespeare, the Life and Death of Richard the Third Act I, scene IV:
(poetic) A vast space.
* 1608': they have seemed to be together, though absent, shook hands, as over a '''vast , and embraced, as it were, from the ends of opposed winds. — William Shakespeare, ''The Winter's Tale , I.i
As an adjective vant
is .As a verb vant
is .As a noun vast is
west (compass point).vant
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(head)vast
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Adjective
(en-adj)- The Sahara desert is vast .
- There is a vast difference between them.
citation, passage=Last spring, the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals.}}
- the empty, vast , and wandering air