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great  (grt)

adj. great·er, great·est

1. Very large in size.

2. Larger in size than others of the same kind.

3. Large in quantity or number: A great throng awaited us. See Synonyms at large.

4. Extensive in time or distance: a great delay.

5. Remarkable or outstanding in magnitude, degree, or extent: a great crisis.

6. Of outstanding significance or importance: a great work of art.

7. Chief or principal: the great house on the estate.

8. Superior in quality or character; noble: "For he was great, ere fortune made him so" (John Dryden).

9. Powerful; influential: one of the great nations of the West.

10. Eminent; distinguished: a great leader.

11. Grand; aristocratic.

12. Informal Enthusiastic: a great lover of music.

13. Informal Very skillful: great at algebra.

14. Informal Very good; first-rate: We had a great time at the dance.

15. Being one generation removed from the relative specified. Often used in combination: a great-granddaughter.

16. Archaic Pregnant.

n.

1. pl. greats or great One that is great: a composer considered among the greats.

2. Music

a. A division of most pipe organs, usually containing the most powerful ranks of pipes.

b. A similar division of other organs.

adv. Informal

Very well: got along great with the teacher.

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[Middle English grete, from Old English grat, thick, coarse.]

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greatly adv.

greatness n.

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Greatness 

See Also: FAME, INTELLIGENCE, MIND

1. Early genius is like a cabbage: it doesn’t head well —Bartlett’s Dictionary of Americanisms
2. A fine genius, in his own country, is like gold in the mine —Ben Franklin
3. Genius, in one respect, is like gold —numbers of persons are constantly writing about both who have neither —Charles Caleb Colton
4. Genius is like a flint of many edges, but it is the edges that give the sparkle —Moritz Gottlieb Saphir
5. Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use —William Hazlitt
6. Genius, like water, will find its level —Proverb
7. Genius must have talent as its complement and implement, just as, in like manner, imagination must have fancy —Samuel Taylor Coleridge Coleridge built on this simile as follows: “In short, the higher intellectual powers can only act through a corresponding energy of the lower.”
8. Genius without education is like silver in the mine —Benjamin Franklin
9. A genius without vices is like a race horse without a good jockey —Benjamin De Casseres
10. Great men are like mountains; we do not appreciate their magnitude while we are still close to them —Joseph Chamberlain
11. Great men are like meteors; they litter and are consumed to enlighten the world —Napoleon Bonaparte
12. Great men, like great epochs, are explosive material in whom tremendous energy has been accumulated —Friedrich Nietzsche The simile is sometimes quoted with the word ‘ages’ substituted for ‘epochs.’
13. Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God —William Wadsworth Longfellow
14. Great minds are like eagles, and build their nest in some lofty solitude —Arthur Schopenhauer
15. It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with —Henry Van Dyke
16. Men of genius are like eagles, that live on what they kill, while men of talents are like crows, that live on what has been killed for them —Josh Billings In Billings’ special phonetic dialect this reads: “Men ov genius … tha live on what tha … while men ov … tha live on what haz bin killed for them.”

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	greatness - the property possessed by something or someone of outstanding importance or eminence illustriousness importance - the quality of being important and worthy of note; "the importance of a well-balanced diet"
	2.	greatness - unusual largeness in size or extent or number immenseness, immensity, sizeableness, vastness, enormousness, grandness, wideness bigness, largeness - the property of having a relatively great size enormity - vastness of size or extent; "in careful usage the noun enormity is not used to express the idea of great size"; "universities recognized the enormity of their task"

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greatness

noun

1. grandeur, glory, majesty, splendour, power, pomp, magnificence the greatness of ancient Rome

2. fame, glory, celebrity, distinction, eminence, note, lustre, renown, illustriousness Abraham Lincoln achieved greatness.

Quotations
"No really great man ever thought himself so" [William Hazlitt Whether Genius is Conscious of Its Powers?]
"He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts" [Samuel Butler Note-Books]
"There would be no great ones if there were no little ones" [George Herbert Outlandish Proverbs]
"The greatest spirits are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues" [René Descartes Discourse on Method]
"It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts" [Friedrich Nietzsche Human, All Too Human]
"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em" [William Shakespeare Twelfth Night]
"Few great men could pass Personnel" [Paul Goodman Growing Up Absurd]

Translations

greatness [ˈgreɪtnɪs] N → grandeza f
he was destined for greatness → su destino era grande

greatness [ˈgreɪtnɪs] n [person] → grandeur f
Great Plains npl
the Great Plains → les Grandes Plaines fpl
great-uncle [ˌgreɪtˈʌŋk^əl] n → grand-oncle m
Great Wall of China n
the Great Wall of China → la Grande Muraille de Chine

greatness

n → Größe f; (of size, height, degree etc also) → Ausmaß nt; (= importance also) → Bedeutung f; greatness of heart → Hochherzigkeit f, → Großmut f; greatness of mind → Geistesgröße f

greatness [ˈgreɪtnɪs] n → grandezza