greatest

Adjective

great (comparative greater, superlative greatest)

1. Taking much space; large.
   • “[…] 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.[…]”1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC
   1. Much, more than usual.
      • great worry
   2. (UK, informal) Intensifying a word or expression, used in mild oaths.
      • a dirty great smack in the face
2. (informal) Very good; excellent; wonderful; fantastic.
   • Dinner was great.
3. Important, consequential.
   • a great dilemma
4. (qualifying nouns of family relationship) Involving more generations than the qualified word implies — as many extra generations as repetitions of the word great (from 1510s).
   • great-grandfather, great-great-grandfather, great-great-great-grandfather

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