Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗adj
Very large or wide (literally or figuratively). · Very great in size, amount, degree, intensity, or especially extent. · Waste; desert; desolate; lonely.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA vast space.
From Middle French vaste, from Latin vastus (“void, immense”). Related to waste and German Wüste.
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