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TO A GREAT EXTENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does to a great extent mean?
• TO A GREAT EXTENT (adverb)
The adverb TO A GREAT EXTENT has 1 sense:
1. to a considerable degree
Familiarity information: TO A GREAT EXTENT used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
To a considerable degree
Synonyms:
heavily; to a great extent
Context example:
he relied heavily on others' data
Context examples
Mr. Micawber's affairs, although past their crisis, were very much involved by reason of a certain Deed, of which I used to hear a great deal, and which I suppose, now, to have been some former composition with his creditors, though I was so far from being clear about it then, that I am conscious of having confounded it with those demoniacal parchments which are held to have, once upon a time, obtained to a great extent in Germany.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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