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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹeɪt/
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• British, Southern, Standard: /ˈɡɹɛjt/
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• Australian, New-Zealand: /ˈɡɹæɪt/
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• Scotland: /ˈɡɾet/
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• Wales: /ˈɡɾeːt/ without the pane–pain merger
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• Canada: [ˈɡɹeːt]
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• [ˈɡɹeːt] Ottawa Valley
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• [ˈɡɹɛːt] Ottawa Valley
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• homophone: grate
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• rhymes with -eɪt
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• Southern-US, archaic: grĕt
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• /ˈɡɹɛt/
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• grīt 18th century
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• /ɡɹiːt/ 18th century
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• homophone: greet
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• /ɡɹɛːt/ Early Modern English; 16th–17th centuries
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• Early Modern English; 16th–17th centuries
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• CMU ARPABET: G R EY1 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English greet, grete (“great, large”), from Old English grēat (“big, massive; tall; thick; coarse”), from Proto-West Germanic *graut, from Proto-Germanic *grautaz (“coarse, crude; big, large”), from Proto-Indo-European *ghrewd-, *gher- (“to rub; to stroke; to grind; to remove”). Cognates Cognate with Scots graat, great, greet (“great”), Yola graat (“great”), North Frisian grat, groot, grot, grut, gråt, gurt (“big, great, large”), Saterland Frisian groot (“big, large”), West Frisian grut (“big, great, large”), Alemannic German groß, gruuss (“very large”), Central Franconian jruß (“big, great, large”), Cimbrian gròas, groaz (“big, great, large”), Dutch and German Low German groot (“big, great, large”), German gross, groß (“big, large”), Limburgish grut, gruët (“big, large; grand; tall; adult; pregnant”), Luxembourgish grouss (“big, great, large”), Mòcheno groas (“big, great, large”), Vilamovian grus, grūs (“big, great, large”), Yiddish גרויס (groys, “big, large”); also Latin grandis (“big, great, large”), Greek χρίω (chrío, “to anoint”), Albanian grind (“to brawl, fight”), Latvian grauds (“grain”), Lithuanian grūdas (“grain”), Czech hrouda, hruda (“clod”), Macedonian грутка (grutka, “clod, clump, lump”), Polish gruda (“clod, lump; frozen ground; mud fever, scratches”), Russian гру́да (grúda, “clod, heap, mass, pile”), Serbo-Croatian гру̏да, гру̏два, grȕda, grȕdva (“clod, lump; snowball”), Armenian կորկոտ (korkot, “groats of wheat or barley”), Sanskrit घर्षति (gharṣati, “to brush, polish, rub”). Related to grit. Doublet of gross. The modern pronunciation shows an irregular change of Early Modern English /ɛː/ to /eɪ/ in the standard language; contrast this with the development of other words such as beat and heat.

392 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: groot — very big, large scale
• Albanian: madh — very big, large scale
• Albanian: e mathe — very big, large scale
• Arabic: عَظِيم (ʕaẓīm) — very big, large scale
• Arabic: كَبِير (kabīr) — very big, large scale
• Arabic: كبير (kibīr) — very big, large scale
• Arabic: كبير (kbīr) — very big, large scale
• Aramaic: ܪܒܐ (rabbā) — very big, large scale
• Aramaic: ܟܒܝܪܐ (kabbīrā) — very big, large scale
• Aramaic: רַבָּא (rabbā) — very big, large scale
• Armenian: մեծ (mec) — very big, large scale
• Belarusian: вялі́кі (vjalíki) — very big, large scale
• Bengali: আকবর (akbor) — very big, large scale
• Bulgarian: голя́м (goljám) — very big, large scale
• Bulgarian: вели́к (velík) — very big, large scale
• Burmese: ကြီးမားသော (kri:ma:sau:) — very big, large scale
• Catalan: gran — very big, large scale
• Catalan: enorme — very big, large scale
• Cherokee: ᎡᏆ (equa) — very big, large scale
• Chinese Cantonese: 大 (daai6) — very big, large scale
• Chinese: да (da) — very big, large scale
• Chinese Mandarin: 大 (dà) — very big, large scale
• Chinese Mandarin: 巨大 (jùdà) — very big, large scale
• Chinese Mandarin: 偉大 /伟大 (wěidà) — very big, large scale
• Maore Comorian: -ɓole — very big, large scale
• Cornish: brâs — very big, large scale
• Crimean Tatar: ulu — very big, large scale
• Czech: veliký — very big, large scale
• Dalmatian: grund — very big, large scale
• Dalmatian: gruond — very big, large scale
• Danish: stor — very big, large scale
• Dutch: groot — very big, large scale
• Egyptian: aA:a-A-Y1V (ꜥꜣ) — very big, large scale
• Erzya: покш (pokš) — very big, large scale
• Eshtehardi: پیل (pil) — very big, large scale
• Esperanto: ega — very big, large scale
• Estonian: vägev — very big, large scale
• Faroese: stórur — very big, large scale
• Faroese: mikil — very big, large scale
• Finnish: jättimäinen — very big, large scale
• Finnish: mahtava — very big, large scale
• Finnish: valtava — very big, large scale
• Finnish: jätti- — very big, large scale
• Finnish: suunnaton — very big, large scale
• French: grand — very big, large scale
• North Frisian: grat — very big, large scale
• West-Frisian: grut — very big, large scale
• Friulian: grant — very big, large scale
• Galician: grande — very big, large scale
• Georgian: დიდი (didi) — very big, large scale
• German: groß — very big, large scale
• Bavarian German: grous — very big, large scale
• Gothic: 𐌼𐌹𐌺𐌹𐌻𐍃 (mikils) — very big, large scale
• Greek: μεγάλος (megálos) — very big, large scale
• Ancient Greek: μέγας (mégas) — very big, large scale
• Hebrew: גָּדוֹל (gadól) — very big, large scale
• Hindi: बड़ा (baṛā) — very big, large scale
• Hungarian: nagy — very big, large scale
• Icelandic: stór — very big, large scale
• Icelandic: mikill — very big, large scale
• Ido: granda — very big, large scale
• Indonesian: besar — very big, large scale
• Irish: mór — very big, large scale
• Irish: ábhal — very big, large scale
• Italian: grande — very big, large scale
• Japanese: 大きい (ōkii) — very big, large scale
• Japanese: 巨大な (kyodai na) — very big, large scale
• Japanese: 偉大な (idai na) — very big, large scale
• Kazakh: ұлы (ūly) — very big, large scale
• Korean: 크다 (keuda) — very big, large scale
• Korean: 거대하다 (geodaehada) — very big, large scale
• Korean: 위대하다 (widaehada) — very big, large scale
• Central Kurdish: مەزن (mezn) — very big, large scale
• Kyrgyz: улуу (uluu) — very big, large scale
• Latin: magnus — very big, large scale
• Latin: grandis — very big, large scale
• Latvian: liels — very big, large scale
• Latvian: dižs — very big, large scale
• Latvian: varens — very big, large scale
• Lithuanian: didelis — very big, large scale
• Macedonian: голем (golem) — very big, large scale
• Māori: mokorahi — very big, large scale
• Māori: mokotahi — very big, large scale
• Maranao: basar — very big, large scale
• Mizo: ropui — very big, large scale
• Mizo: lian — very big, large scale
• Mòcheno: groas — very big, large scale
• Mongolian: их (ix) — very big, large scale
• Navajo: tsoh — very big, large scale
• Neapolitan: gruosso — very big, large scale
• Norwegian Bokmål: stor — very big, large scale
• Norwegian Nynorsk: stor — very big, large scale
• Church Slavic: великъ (velikŭ) — very big, large scale
• Church Slavic: ⰲⰵⰾⰻⰽⱏ (velikŭ) — very big, large scale
• Old East Slavic: великъ (velikŭ) — very big, large scale
• Old English: miċel — very big, large scale
• Old Norse: stórr — very big, large scale
• Old Norse: mikill — very big, large scale
• Pashto: ستر (stër) — very big, large scale
• Pashto: لوی (loi) — very big, large scale
• Persian: بزرگ (bozorg) — very big, large scale
• Persian: سترگ (setorg) — very big, large scale
• Persian: عظیم ('azim) — very big, large scale
• Plautdietsch: groot (nds) — very big, large scale
• Polish: wielki — very big, large scale
• Portuguese: grande — very big, large scale
• Portuguese: grandioso — very big, large scale
• Portuguese: enorme — very big, large scale
• Quechua: hatun — very big, large scale
• Rapa Nui: nui — very big, large scale
• Romanian: mare — very big, large scale
• Russian: вели́кий (velíkij) — very big, large scale
• Russian: большо́й (bolʹšój) — very big, large scale
• Sanskrit: मह (maha) — very big, large scale
• Sanskrit: महत् (mahat) — very big, large scale
• Scots: great — very big, large scale
• Scots: muckle — very big, large scale
• Scots: unco — very big, large scale
• Serbo-Croatian: вѐлик — very big, large scale
• Serbo-Croatian: го̀лем — very big, large scale
• Serbo-Croatian: vèlik — very big, large scale
• Serbo-Croatian: gòlem — very big, large scale
• Slovak: veľký — very big, large scale
• Slovene: velik — very big, large scale
• Spanish: grande — very big, large scale
• Spanish: gran — very big, large scale
• Spanish: grosso — very big, large scale
• Spanish: groso — very big, large scale
• Spanish: grave — very big, large scale
• Swedish: stor — very big, large scale
• Tajik: бузург (buzurg) — very big, large scale
• Telugu: గొప్ప (goppa) — very big, large scale
• Tocharian B: orotstse — very big, large scale
• Turkish: çok büyük — very big, large scale
• Turkish: büyük — very big, large scale
• Ottoman Turkish: بیوك (büyük) — very big, large scale
• Ottoman Turkish: قوجه (koca) — very big, large scale
• Ottoman Turkish: ایری (iri) — very big, large scale
• Ottoman Turkish: بزرك (büzürg) — very big, large scale
• Udi: кала (kala) — very big, large scale
• Udmurt: быдӟым (byddźym) — very big, large scale
• Ugaritic: 𐎗𐎁 (rb) — very big, large scale
• Ukrainian: вели́кий (velýkyj) — very big, large scale
• Vietnamese: khổng lồ — very big, large scale
• Vietnamese: Đại — very big, large scale
• Welsh: mawr — very big, large scale
• Woiwurrung: buladu — very big, large scale
• Akkadian: 𒃲 (rabûm) — very good
• Arabic: رَائِع (rāʔiʕ) — very good
• Arabic: عَظِيم (ʕaẓīm) — very good
• Arabic: عظيم (ʕaẓīm) — very good
• Aramaic: ܪܒܐ (rabbā) — very good
• Aramaic: רַבָּא (rabbā) — very good
• Armenian: հոյակապ (hoyakap) — very good
• Belarusian: выда́тны (vydátny) — very good
• Belarusian: цудо́ўны (cudówny) — very good
• Bulgarian: чуде́сен (čudésen) — very good
• Bulgarian: отли́чен (otlíčen) — very good
• Catalan: genial — very good
• Catalan: fabulós — very good
• Chinese Mandarin: 很好 (hěn hǎo) — very good
• Chinese Mandarin: 不錯 /不错 (búcuò) — very good
• Chinese Mandarin: 棒 (bàng) — very good
• Chinese Mandarin: 卓越 (zhuóyuè) — very good
• Czech: skvělý — very good
• Danish: alle tiders — very good
• Danish: fantastisk — very good
• Danish: fed — very good
• Danish: skøn — very good
• Dutch: heerlijk — very good
• Dutch: prachtig — very good
• Esperanto: bonega — very good
• Estonian: suurepärane — very good
• Estonian: oivaline — very good
• Finnish: erinomainen — very good
• Finnish: erittäin hyvä — very good
• Finnish: loistava — very good
• Finnish: suurenmoinen — very good
• Finnish: tosihyvä — very good
• French: excellent — very good
• French: super — very good
• French: formidable — very good
• Georgian: შესანიშნავი (šesanišnavi) — very good
• Georgian: საუცხოო (saucxoo) — very good
• German: großartig — very good
• German: schön — very good
• German: fein — very good
• German: wundervoll — very good
• Greek: εξαιρετικός (exairetikós) — very good
• Hebrew: נהדר (nehedɑr) — very good
• Hebrew: נפלא (niflɑ) — very good
• Hungarian: nagyszerű — very good
• Irish: diail — very good
• Italian: formidabile — very good
• Italian: magnifico — very good
• Italian: ottimo — very good
• Italian: superbo — very good
• Italian: eccellente — very good
• Italian: super — very good
• Japanese: 凄い (sugoi) — very good
• Japanese: すばらしい (subarashii) — very good
• Japanese: 素敵な (suteki na) — very good
• Japanese: 壮大な (sōdai na) — very good
• Korean: 대단하다 (daedanhada) — very good
• Korean: 훌륭하다 (hullyunghada) — very good
• Korean: 근사하다 (geunsahada) — very good
• Korean: 멋지다 (meotjida) — very good
• Central Kurdish: زۆر چاک (zor çak) — very good
• Latin: magnus — very good
• Latin: grandis — very good
• Latvian: lielisks — very good
• Latvian: izcils — very good
• Lithuanian: puikus — very good
• Lithuanian: nuostabus — very good
• Macedonian: одличен (odličen) — very good
• Mizo: ropui — very good
• Mizo: ţha — very good
• Norwegian Bokmål: kjempebra — very good
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kjempebra — very good
• Occitan: formidable — very good
• Pashto: غوره (ǧwara) — very good
• Persian: عالی ('âli) — very good
• Plautdietsch: groot (nds) — very good
• Polish: wspaniały — very good
• Polish: świetny — very good
• Portuguese: ótimo — very good
• Portuguese: fantástico — very good
• Romanian: superb — very good
• Romanian: minunat — very good
• Romanian: foarte bun — very good
• Russian: прекра́сный (prekrásnyj) — very good
• Russian: отли́чный (otlíčnyj) — very good
• Russian: замеча́тельный (zamečátelʹnyj) — very good
• Russian: великоле́пный (velikolépnyj) — very good
• Russian: чуде́сный (čudésnyj) — very good
• Scots: gey — very good
• Serbo-Croatian: одличан — very good
• Serbo-Croatian: изврстан — very good
• Serbo-Croatian: odličan — very good
• Serbo-Croatian: izvrstan — very good
• Slovak: skvelý — very good
• Slovene: odličen — very good
• Spanish: muy bueno — very good
• Spanish: buenísimo — very good
• Spanish: bonísimo — very good
• Spanish: genial — very good
• Spanish: grosso — very good
• Spanish: groso — very good
• Spanish: fetén — very good
• Spanish: piola — very good
• Spanish: chanchi — very good
• Spanish: chachi — very good
• Spanish: macanudo — very good
• Spanish: requetebién — very good
• Sumerian: 𒃲 (gal) — very good
• Swedish: jättebra — very good
• Ugaritic: 𐎗𐎁 (rb) — very good
• Ukrainian: прекра́сний (prekrásnyj) — very good
• Ukrainian: чудо́вий (čudóvyj) — very good
• Ukrainian: чуде́сний (čudésnyj) — very good
• Vietnamese: tuyệt — very good
• Vietnamese: tuyệt vời — very good
• Vietnamese: vĩ đại — very good
• Welsh: gwych — very good
• Welsh: grêt — very good
• Assamese: আজো (azü) — family relationship
• Finnish: iso- — family relationship
• Chinese Mandarin: 偉大 /伟大 (wěidà) — uncommonly gifted
• Maore Comorian: -ɓole — uncommonly gifted
• Finnish: nerokas — uncommonly gifted
• Finnish: lahjakas — uncommonly gifted
• French: grand — uncommonly gifted
• Japanese: 偉大な (idai na) — uncommonly gifted
• Japanese: 非凡な (idai na) — uncommonly gifted
• Kabuverdianu: nhaku — uncommonly gifted
• Latin: magnus — uncommonly gifted
• Persian: والا (vâlâ) — uncommonly gifted
• Albanian: i madh — important title
• Armenian: մեծ (mec) — important title
• Bengali: আকবর (akbor) — important title
• Bulgarian: вели́к (velík) — important title
• Chinese Mandarin: 大帝 (dàdì) — important title
• Czech: veliký — important title
• Finnish: suuri — important title
• French: grand — important title
• French: grande — important title
• Georgian: დიდი (didi) — important title
• German: der Große — important title
• Greek: περίφημος (perífimos) — important title
• Hebrew: גדול (gɑdol) — important title
• Italian: magno — important title
• Italian: magna — important title
• Japanese: 大王 (daiō) — important title
• Khmer: ព្រះមហាវីរក្សត្រ (preah mɔhaa viirea ksat) — important title
• Korean: 위대하다 (widaehada) — important title
• Latin: magnus — important title
• Lithuanian: didysis — important title
• Macedonian: велик (velik) — important title
• Pashto: لوی (loi) — important title
• Persian: کبیر (kabir) — important title
• Polish: wielki — important title
• Portuguese: grande — important title
• Portuguese: grandioso — important title
• Portuguese: distinto — important title
• Russian: вели́кий (velíkij) — important title
• Serbo-Croatian: вѐлик — important title
• Serbo-Croatian: vèlik — important title
• Spanish: Magno — important title
• Spanish: Grande — important title
• Swedish: stor — important title
• Vietnamese: Cả — important title
• Vietnamese: Đại Đế — important title
• Georgian: შესანიშნავად (šesanišnavad) — very well
• Georgian: ჩინებულად (činebulad) — very well
• Georgian: დიდებულად (didebulad) — very well
• Georgian: საუცხოოდ (saucxood) — very well
• Italian: bene — very well
• Italian: molto bene — very well
• Macedonian: одлично (odlično) — very well
• Polish: fajnie — very well
• Polish: fajno — very well
• Polish: świetnie — very well
• Portuguese: bem — very well
• Spanish: genial — very well
• Spanish: chanchi — very well
• Spanish: chachi — very well
• Spanish: muy bien — very well
• Spanish: fetén — very well
• Spanish: requetebién — very well
• Spanish: biensísimo — very well
• Spanish: genialmente — very well
• Bulgarian: чуде́сно (čudésno) — great!
• Chinese Mandarin: 太棒了 (tài bàng le) — great!
• Danish: fedt — great!
• Danish: super — great!
• Danish: nice — great!
• Dutch: fantastisch — great!
• Dutch: fijn — great!
• Finnish: mahtavaa — great!
• French: chouette — great!
• French: génial — great!
• French: très bien — great!
• Georgian: ვაშა (vaša) — great!
• German: prima — great!
• German: super — great!
• Greek: θαυμάσια (thavmásia) — great!
• Hebrew: מעולה (meʿule) — great!
• Hebrew: טוב מאוד (tov meʾod) — great!
• Hebrew: נהדר (nehedɑr) — great!
• Hungarian: szuper — great!
• Icelandic: æðislegt — great!
• Icelandic: frábært — great!
• Irish: go hiontach — great!
• Italian: grandioso — great!
• Italian: bene — great!
• Italian: grande — great!
• Japanese: すごい (sugoi) — great!
• Central Kurdish: باشە (başe) — great!
• Central Kurdish: زۆر چاکە (zor çake) — great!
• Latin: babae — great!
• Macedonian: супер (super) — great!
• Macedonian: одлично (odlično) — great!
• Malay: bagus — great!
• Polish: świetnie — great!
• Polish: super — great!
• Portuguese: magnífico — great!
• Portuguese: ótimo — great!
• Russian: здо́рово (zdórovo) — great!
• Russian: отли́чно (otlíčno) — great!
• Russian: класс (klass) — great!
• Spanish: bien — great!
• Spanish: genial — great!
• Swedish: jättebra — great!
• Tamil: சூப்பர் (cūppar) — great!
• Tamil: பிரமாதம் (piramātam) — great!
• Tamil: செம்ம (cemma) — great!
• Thai: ยอดเยี่ยม (yot yiam) — great!
• Venetan: vèrceghe — great!
• Vietnamese: tuyệt — great!
• Vietnamese: tuyệt vời — great!
• Bengali: আকাবির (akabir) — person of major significance, accomplishment or acclaim
• Bulgarian: големец (golemec) — person of major significance, accomplishment or acclaim
• Chinese Mandarin: 偉人 /伟人 (wěirén) — person of major significance, accomplishment or acclaim
• German: Größe — person of major significance, accomplishment or acclaim
• Italian: grande — person of major significance, accomplishment or acclaim
• Japanese: 偉人 (ijin) — person of major significance, accomplishment or acclaim
• Kabuverdianu: nhaku — person of major significance, accomplishment or acclaim
• Macedonian: велика́н (velikán) — person of major significance, accomplishment or acclaim
• Norwegian Bokmål: storhet — person of major significance, accomplishment or acclaim
• Portuguese: grande — person of major significance, accomplishment or acclaim
• Telugu: గొప్పవాడు (goppavāḍu) — person of major significance, accomplishment or acclaim
• Turkish: ünlü — person of major significance, accomplishment or acclaim