From the Latin 'vastus', immense, empty; vast means of a great area or number, lesserly of, or referring to emptiness, thus;
A 'vast' forest could be full of trees, or, 'vast' desert, of emptiness.
'Teapot dome scandal' means a government scandal involving a former United States Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company in 1921; became symbolic of the...
Not. The dictionary meaning is the denotative meaning of the word. The connotative meaning is a meaning which derives from the associations the word has. The dictionary meaning of "swastika" is " a...