great
What is the Definition of great?
Noun:
- a person who has achieved distinction and honor in some field
Adjective:
- relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind
- of major significance or importance
- remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect
- very good
- uppercase
- in an advanced stage of pregnancy
How can I use great in a sentence?
Harry had gotten used to this by now, but it had given him a bit of a shock on the first morning, when about a hundred owls had suddenly streamed into the Great Hall during breakfast, circling the tables until they saw their owners, and dropping letters and packages onto their laps.
Ah, shut up, Dursley, yeh great prune, said the giant; he reached over the back of the sofa, jerked the gun out of Uncle Vernon's hands, bent it into a knot as easily as if it had been made of rubber, and threw it into a corner of the room.
Feeling oddly as though his legs had turned to lead, Harry got into line behind a boy with sandy hair, with Ron behind him, and they walked out of the chamber, back across the hall, and through a pair of double doors into the Great Hall.
That is what I said, but Dumbledore thinks that — what was it? — ‘to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.' I always said he was off his rocker, said Ron, looking quite impressed at how crazy his hero was.
I know all about you, of course — I got a few extra books, for background reading, and you are in Modern Magical History and The Rise and Fall of the Dark Arts and Great Wizarding Events of the Twentieth Century.