large
Part of speech: adj
noun
adv
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
clothing
entertainment
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
music
nautical
textiles
transport
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. Along with big, it mostly displaced Middle English stoor and muchel (the latter surviving in much under a different meaning).
Inflected forms:
form: larger
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: largest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: larges
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of considerable or relatively great size or extent.
pos: adj
examples: Russia is a large country. The fruit-fly has large eyes for its body size. He has a large collection of stamps.
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.
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
Test large, cylindrical, early portion closely coiled and always completely involute, later and larger portion uncoiled[…]
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.
gloss: That is large (the manufactured size).
pos: adj
tags: especially
gloss: Abundant; ample.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: We have yet large day.
He prefers teachers with large experience, but often has positions for beginners who have had a thorough preparation.
gloss: Full in statement; diffuse; profuse.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: 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"
I might be very large upon the importance and advantages of education.
gloss: Free; unencumbered.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: Of burdens all he set the Paynims large.
gloss: Unrestrained by decorum; said of language.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: Some large jests he will make.
gloss: 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.
pos: adj
gloss: An old musical note, equal to two longas, four breves, or eight semibreves.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: Liberality, generosity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: A thousand dollars/pounds.
pos: noun
tags: countable
plural
slang
uncountable
examples: Getting a car tricked out like that will cost you 50 large.
"We'll call you anything we want," Dave said. "You owe us eighty-five large, Ace, and what we've got for collateral on that money so far is a shitload of Arm & Hammer baking soda worth about a buck-fifty. We'll call you Hubert J. Motherfucker if we want to."
So send my sister a hundred large, and next time you come down to Jessup it won't be my grill talking at you. My word on that.
gloss: One of several common sizes to which an item may be manufactured, larger than a medium.
pos: noun
tags: especially
uncountable
gloss: An item labelled or denoted as being that size.
pos: noun
tags: countable
especially
examples: One small coffee and two larges, please.
gloss: One who fits an item of that size.
pos: noun
tags: countable
especially
gloss: Before the wind.
pos: adv
Synonyms: big
huge
giant
gigantic
enormous
stour
great
mickle
largeish
ample
cosmic
bodacious
broad
commodious
considerable
expansive
good-sized
full
generous
grand
hefty
hench
immense
jumbo
larger than life
largifical
leviathan
liberal
long
massive
mega-
overlarge
outsized
oversize
oversized
prodigious
roomy
rotund
sizeable
spacious
stonking
substantial
tall
vast
voluminous
wide
astronomic
behemothic
big fat
boxcar
Brobdingnagian
bulky
colossal
cyclopean
Daniel Lambertish
elephantine
elephantic
gargantuan
giantesque
gigantesque
gigantuan (colloquial
nonstandard))
ginormous
great big
honkin'
hulking
humongous
hunormous
immane
mahoosive
mammoth
mastodonic
monstrous
monumental
mountainous
pantagruelian
pyramidal
Pythonic
stupendous
super-
supersized
titanic
tremendous
whopping
yuge
Antonyms: small
tiny
minuscule
Related words: size
Derived words: 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 cardamom
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 page
large quasar group
larger than life
large scale
large-scale
largescale
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
at large
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