だい
Meanings
Adjective (な)
1. great; grand; magnificent; outstanding; mighty
Kanji used
great
large
Pitch accent
だい
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greatness
large; big; great; prominent; -sized; as big as; university
Examples (63 in total)
Great is the power of habit.
Radio is a great invention.
Shakespeare is a great poet.
Beethoven was a great musician.
Hideyo Noguchi was a great man.
He is great in many ways.
He was a great statesman in life.
This is a great invention in a way.
Great thoughts come from the heart.
Because he was a great musician.
Basho was the greatest poet.
It seems that he was a great athlete.
He is the greatest man in the world.
John grew up to be a great artist.
We regard him as a great man.
They are great masterpieces of European art.
Everyone regarded him as a great singer.
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
Once upon a time, there lived a great king in Greece.
She achieved great success in her business.
A student visited the house of the great playwright.
Nothing is as great as maternal love.
Shakespeare is one of the greatest poets.
Great scholar as he is, he is lacking in common sense.
This is how the great empire came into existence.
I feel a great love for all of humanity.
It was one of the great discoveries in science.
You should read about the careers of great men.
There are many people who think of Jesus as a great teacher.
Baseball is often called "the great American sport".
A great scholar is not necessarily a good teacher.
It was said that a great poet had resided here.
A nation need not necessarily be powerful to be great.
He came to be known as a great novelist.
He was endowed with great talents.
He became a great pianist in this way.
Technology has given us immense power.
We all regard Thomas Edison as a great inventor.
The great Roman hero, Julius Caesar, was assassinated.
As a result, he became a great merchant.
Judging from what you say, he must be a great writer.
Judging from what you say, he must be a great scholar.
The poor man finally became a great artist.
A prize was given in honor of the great scientist.
In addition to being a good teacher, she was a great scholar.
The son of a great actor became a good actor in his own right.
He is proud that his father was a great scientist.
If he had not died so young, he would have become a great scientist.
Mozart was greater than any other composer of his time.
Alfred, King of England, was a great scholar as well as a great ruler.
The great critic and poet is lecturing on philosophy.
This monument is in memory of a great statesman.
Many great thinkers who were unknown while alive became famous after death.
I am not so stupid as to deny its great beauty.
Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
Every great writer seems to have been interested in English.
He has some grave defects, but I think he is a great scholar all the same.
He never forgot his ambition to become a great statesman.
In addition to being a famous physicist, he is a great novelist.
Lincoln is one of the greatest figures in American history.
I often say a great doctor kills more people than a great general.
The great politician passed away in 1963.
The boy talks as if he were a great scholar.