great

«great» in Mova's school dictionary: very good or excellent: a great idea — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (great, greater, greatest); adverb greatly; noun (the greats — famous people); informal exclamation (Great!)

meaning for a pupil

1) Great means very good or excellent: a great idea. tree →

2) Great means very large in size or amount: a great big dog, a great deal. tree →

3) Great can mean important or famous: a great writer. tree →

4) In family words, great means one more generation away: great-grandma is your grandma's mother. tree →

sense in the lessons

In stories «great» describes size (a great castle) or importance (a great king). In everyday talk «Great!» means «Very good!» but can be said sarcastically when something goes wrong. In maths «greater than» means bigger and is written «>»: 7 > 4. Phrases: a great deal of, great big, Great Britain, a great time, greater than, great-grandfather.

examples

• We had a great time at the beach. tree →
• That's a great idea! tree →
• Seven is greater than four. tree →
• A great big elephant walked past. tree →
• My great-grandma is ninety years old. tree →
• He was a great inventor. tree →
• Oh, great, it's raining again! tree →
• The Great Barrier Reef is off the coast of Australia. tree →
• "And what great eyes you have!" tree →

note

Comparison: great, greater, greatest. In maths: «greater than» (>), «less than» (<); «the greatest number» is the biggest. Do not confuse with «grate» (to shred cheese, or the metal frame in a fireplace), which sounds the same. Great-grandparents: your parents' grandparents.

In the corpora

• Chatbots are trained to be pleasant: "Great question!" they say, even when you asked something quite ordinary.
• Saying "Great question!" is a habit built into many bots, not a real opinion of your question.
• Flattery is not honest feedback; honest, kind feedback helps people more than "Great question!" said to everything.
• Whether such paintings are great art is argued: some say they are powerful in real life, others say they are a joke.
• The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai is a woodblock print, so many copies were made from the carved blocks.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «great» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.