A GREAT DEAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does a great deal mean? 

• A GREAT DEAL (adverb)
  The adverb A GREAT DEAL has 2 senses:

1. to a very great degree or extent

2. frequently or in great quantities

  Familiarity information: A GREAT DEAL used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• A GREAT DEAL (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To a very great degree or extent

Synonyms:

a good deal; a great deal; a lot; lots; much; very much

Context example:

this would help a great deal

Sense 2

Meaning:

Frequently or in great quantities

Synonyms:

a great deal; much; often

Context example:

I don't travel much

 Context examples 

I put them on new the first time of our going to the Lower Rooms, you know, and I have worn them a great deal since.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

A great deal of very hot port wine was consumed at his call; and, considering the figure, I should think the Inner Temple must have made a profit by it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He was, at that time, a remarkably fine young man, with a great deal of intelligence, spirit, and brilliancy; and Anne an extremely pretty girl, with gentleness, modesty, taste, and feeling.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

There was a great deal of effort about their manner, but no businesslike method.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any friends, not even his own brother.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was thought he cared a great deal for his wife.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

“Perhaps I might have scolded,” said Edmund, “if either of you had been sitting down alone; but while you do wrong together, I can overlook a great deal.”

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Oh, it may be a mere fancy of mine; but it had seemed to me sometimes that my employer, Mr. Carruthers, takes a great deal of interest in me.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"You took a great deal more from Art."

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

My hands bothered me a great deal, unused as they were to work.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)