Associations to the word «Vast»

Wiktionary

VAST, adjective. Very large or wide (literally or figuratively).
VAST, adjective. Very great in size, amount, degree, intensity, or especially extent.
VAST, adjective. (obsolete) Waste; desert; desolate; lonely.
VAST, noun. (poetic) A vast space.
VAST, acronym. Visual audio sensory theater
VAST, acronym. (ESA) (volcanology) Acronym of Volcanic Ash Strategic initiative Team.
VAST RIGHT-WING CONSPIRACY, noun. (US) (colloquial) (Politics) A supposed conspiracy perpetuated by members of the Republican Party.

Dictionary definition

VAST, adjective. Unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope; "huge government spending"; "huge country estates"; "huge popular demand for higher education"; "a huge wave"; "the Los Angeles aqueduct winds like an immense snake along the base of the mountains"; "immense numbers of birds"; "at vast (or immense) expense"; "the vast reaches of outer space"; "the vast accumulation of knowledge...which we call civilization"- W.R.Inge.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats