large
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɑːd͡ʒ/
ipa: /lɑɹd͡ʒ/
ipa: /lɑɹd͡ʒ/
ipa: [läɹdʒ]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: /læɹd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dʒ
Forms: form: larger
form: largest
Etymology: From Middle English large, from Old French large, from Latin larga, feminine of largus (“abundant, plentiful, copious, large, much”), of uncertain ultimate origin; see there for more. Mostly displaced Middle English stoor, stour (“large, great”) (from Old English stōr), and muchel (“large, great”) (from Old English myċel), which has survived under a different meaning as much .
Senses: examples: text: Russia is a large country. The fruit-fly has large eyes for its body size. He has a large collection of stamps.
text: We drove back to the office with some concern on my part at the prospect of so large a case. Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: Hal Smith, manager of the Ferry Field theatre, Detroit, one of the largest and prettiest outskirt houses in town, played Metro's "Revelation" for three days last week
ref: 1917, Michigan Film Review, page 347:
text: Test large, cylindrical, early portion closely coiled and always completely involute, later and larger portion uncoiled[…]
ref: 1946, Joseph Augustine Cushman, The larger fossil Foraminifera of the Panama Canal Zone:
text: The largest age group for volunteers was 35-44, the CNCS survey said, and volunteers were most likely to be parents with children under 18.
ref: 2018 July 19, Thom Patterson, “Stats reveal how many Americans volunteer and where”, in CNN:
glosses: Of considerable or relatively great size or extent.
topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
qualifier: food or drink
glosses: That is large (the manufactured size).
examples: text: We have yet large day.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: He prefers teachers with large experience, but often has positions for beginners who have had a thorough preparation.
ref: 1895, Margaret Naomi MacArthur, Kindergarten Review, Finger Play, page 75:
glosses: Abundant; ample.
examples: text: And where hit please yow to saye that I haue holden my lady youre Quene yeres and wynters / vnto that I shal euer make a large ansuer
"And where it please you to say that I have holden my lady your queen years and winters, unto that I shall ever make a large answer"
ref: 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur Book XX, Chapter xj, leaf 408r-v:
text: I might be very large upon the importance and advantages of education.
ref: 1711, Henry Felton, Dissertation on Reading the Classics:
glosses: Full in statement; diffuse; profuse.
examples: text: Of burdens all he set the Paynims large.
ref: 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “(please specify |book=1 to 20)”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC:
glosses: Free; unencumbered.
examples: text: Some large jests he will make.
ref: 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
glosses: Unrestrained by decorum; said of language.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Crossing the line of a ship's course in a favorable direction; said of the wind when it is abeam, or between the beam and the quarter.
Synonyms: word: big
word: huge
word: giant
word: gigantic
word: enormous
word: stour
word: great
word: mickle
word: largeish
word: ample
word: bodacious
word: broad
word: commodious
word: considerable
word: expansive
word: good-sized
word: full
word: generous
word: grand
word: hefty
word: hench
word: immense
word: jumbo
word: larger than life
word: largifical
word: leviathan
word: long
word: massive
word: mega-
word: overlarge
word: outsized
word: oversize
word: oversized
word: prodigious
word: roomy
word: rotund
word: sizeable
word: spacious
word: stonking
word: tall
word: vast
word: voluminous
word: wide
word: astronomic
word: behemothic
word: big fat
word: boxcar
word: Brobdingnagian
word: bulky
word: colossal
word: cyclopean
word: Daniel Lambertish
word: elephantine
word: elephantic
word: gargantuan
word: giantesque
word: gigantesque
word: ginormous
word: great big
word: honkin'
word: hulking
word: humongous
word: hunormous
word: immane
word: mahoosive
word: mammoth
word: mastodonic
word: monstrous
word: monumental
word: mountainous
word: pantagruelian
word: pyramidal
word: Pythonic
word: stupendous
word: super-
word: supersized
word: titanic
word: tremendous
word: whopping
word: yuge
Derived terms: as large as life
binary large object
bulk large
by and large
diffuse large B-cell lymphoma
enlarge
extra extra extra large
extra extra large
extralarge
extra large
extra-large
give it large
go large
have it large
Khitan large script
large and in charge
large-billed scrubwren
Large Black
large blue
large bonito
large bowel
large breasts
large calorie
large cap
large cardinal
large charge
large chequered skipper
large cruiser
large egret
largeflower
large format
large grizzled skipper
large group awareness training
large-group awareness training
large-handed
large-handedly
large-handedness
large-headed rice rat
large-headed water snake
large-hearted
large-heartedly
large-heartedness
large heath
large igneous province
large intestine
large it
large it up
large language model
largeleaf
large leaf-eating ladybird
large light cruiser
largely
large-minded
largemouth
largen
largeness
largenose
large offspring syndrome
large quasar group
larger than life
large scale
largescale
large-scale
large scale integration
large seal script
large-sized
large skipper
largesome
large-spotted civet
large-tailed antshrike
large toe
large toenail
large-toothed aspen
large tortoiseshell
large tupelo
large twayblade
large white
largie
largish
law of large numbers
live large
loom large
nonlarge
overlarge
programming in the large
superlarge
to a large extent
ultralarge
ultra large crude carrier
ultra-large-scale
ultra large scale integration
very large crude carrier
very-large-scale
very large scale integration
very-large-scale integration
writ large
Related terms: word: size