SUCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does such mean? 

• SUCH (adjective)
  The adjective SUCH has 1 sense:

1. of so extreme a degree or extent

  Familiarity information: SUCH used as an adjective is very rare.

• SUCH (adverb)
  The adverb SUCH has 1 sense:

1. to so extreme a degree

  Familiarity information: SUCH used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUCH (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of so extreme a degree or extent

Context example:

never dreamed of such beauty

Similar:

much ((quantifier used with mass nouns) great in quantity or degree or extent)

• SUCH (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To so extreme a degree

Context example:

Such rich people!

Domain usage:

intensifier; intensive (a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies)

 Context examples 

Why, indeed, Fanny, I should hope to be remembered at such a distance as the White House.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

It's for men to do them, and for women to reserve their love as a reward for such men.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Never does he take a dog with him, and dogs are of such great help, too."

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

A meeting, which he anticipated with such joy, so strangely turned to bitterness.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

“Nobody never went and hinted no such a thing,” said Peggotty.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Such was Catherine Morland at ten.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Her gown was what he might expect in such a house.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

How could it be otherwise with such a travelling companion as he had at last got?

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

To be sure, there were certain small evidences, such as that my clothes were folded and laid by in a manner which was not my habit.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He had never heard of such books before I mentioned them, but he is determined to get them now as soon as ever he can.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)