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Definition of large in English: largeadjective lɑːdʒlɑrdʒ 1Of considerable or relatively great size, extent, or capacity. add a large clove of garlic the concert attracted large crowds the jumper comes in small, medium, and large sizes Example sentencesExamples - It's a tattoo, not a bloody button - get it sized large enough to have a bit of impact.
- After all, it's a relatively large number and one reliant on a difficult definition.
- The unexplainable fact is, the cul-de-sac is of ample size for even a large van to turn round.
- He drank and smoked far too much and obviously indulged in unhealthy eating given his large size.
- Not being inordinately large in size, he had the advantage of being an amateur boxer.
- The only area where a large sample has been taken is in the city of Termitau in Kazakhstan.
- Is there a relatively large group of people or an area that could be swayed by such arguments?
- Even the language of large sizes discriminates against the women who wear them.
- We have a considerably large Asian community in our school, many of whom are Muslims.
- A relatively large sum of money is required from members and friends of the club.
- I have a large cardboard box the size of a tea chest with an aperture in front which people can see through.
- In front of each god was a miniature steel plate and a tumbler the size of a large thimble.
- At points I was considering getting a large hammer and knocking most of my own teeth out.
- This is a very cheap yet effective way of loading up these large capacity reels.
- The current study would only be able to detect a relatively large mortality difference.
- There's a large outside balcony area which faces South over the city centre rooftops.
- It was about one metre tall with long arms and a skull the size of a large grapefruit.
- At first the boy was deemed to be too large to be considered for the operation.
- As in hurling, the playing field is about the size of a large football pitch, with a goal at either end.
- Preterm infants get cold quickly because of their relatively large surface area.
Synonyms big, great, huge, of considerable size, sizeable, substantial, immense, enormous, colossal, massive, mammoth, vast, cosmic, goodly, prodigious, tremendous, gigantic, giant, monumental, stupendous, gargantuan, elephantine, titanic, mountainous, monstrous towering, tall, high, lofty mighty, epic, inordinate, voluminous, unlimited, king-size, king-sized, giant-size, giant-sized, man-size, man-sized, outsize, oversized, overgrown, considerable, major, Brobdingnagian cumbersome, unwieldy informal jumbo, whopping, whopping great, thumping, thumping great, mega, humongous, monster, astronomical, dirty great British informal whacking, whacking great, ginormous big, burly, heavy, tall, bulky, thickset, heavyset, chunky, strapping, powerfully built, hefty, muscular, muscle-bound, brawny, muscly, husky, solid, powerful, sturdy, solidly built, broad-shouldered, strong, big and strong, rugged, Herculean fat, plump, overweight, chubby, stout, weighty, meaty, fleshy, portly, rotund, flabby, well fed, paunchy, Falstaffian, obese, gross, corpulent buxom informal hunky, hulking, beefy, roly-poly, tubby, pudgy, porky, well upholstered, broad in the beam British informal podgy, fubsy North American informal zaftig, corn-fed, lard-assed abundant, copious, plentiful, ample, liberal, generous, lavish, profuse, bountiful, bumper, boundless, teeming, overflowing, good, considerable, superabundant, opulent, handsome, galore, sufficient informal tidy literary plenteous - 1.1 Pursuing a commercial activity on a significant scale.
many large investors are likely to take a different view Example sentencesExamples - The fate of rival bids for NatWest rest in the hands of the faceless large investors.
- The difficulties of regional distribution add to the problem of building a market large enough to sustain the industry.
- The basic cause of the changed activities of large businesses is a matter of debate.
- Being a large economy, the euro zone is much less open than individual member states.
- China's economy is now the seventh largest in the world, eclipsing Canada.
- Britain is a Trillion Pound economy, still the fourth largest in the world.
2Of wide range or scope. we can afford to take a larger view of the situation Example sentencesExamples - It has been happening on a very large scale in manufacturing industry in Britain.
- He soon realised he had to go about the programme on a large scale to make it really useful.
- It will be seen from this that Bellavitis worked on a large range of mathematical topics.
- We had to lop a year off that, as it would clearly be impossible to get actors to cover that large an age range.
- It has the infrastructure in place and knows the logistics of large scale delivery systems.
- He was very grand and extreme, very artistic; everything he did was on a large scale.
- This is the purposive activity of craving on a large scale, as it embraces all sentient life.
- It all points to disruption on rather a large scale and uncertainty at least in the medium term.
- The trouble is that that has now been tried on a large scale and the anger still seethes.
- Hence we should treat them instead with a large range of pharmaceutical agents.
- Secondly, from a structural point of view it pervades large parts of the language system.
- It was when the latter came on board that we started to see the acceleration of large scale changes.
- The forces were now effectively only capable of coping with one large scale operation at a time.
- This large range in ripe grapes is an important source of variation in quality.
- I'm not quite sure how this would work on a large scale, but at least it's an idea.
- Had it done so, pain and tragedy and loss on a very large scale could have been avoided.
- The leaves were selected from different parts of the plants to span a large range of mass, area and age.
- If an attacker staged such an assault on a large enough scale, the root servers would be unusable.
- However, on a large scale, the way in which the primes are distributed is very regular.
- Their effort had grown too large to be managed out of a rented house in Nong Khai.
Synonyms wide-reaching, far-reaching, wide-ranging, wide, sweeping, large-scale, broad, extensive, comprehensive, exhaustive, wholesale, global
verb lɑːdʒlɑrdʒ [no object]large itBritish informal Enjoy oneself in a lively way with drink or drugs and music. he's known in clubland for his capacity for larging it Example sentencesExamples - They did what they had to do, and then told me to go out and large it.
- Fans know we're real supporters, so it's a case of ‘you're one of us and you're doing alright’ rather than ‘it's him off the telly larging it.’
- And when I say we didn't go clubbing, I just mean we weren't larging it on a week night.
- I pass a rabble of rampant orange-clad Dutch fans dressed as boy scouts wearing huge cartoon clogs, larging it up, singing and laughing.
- And if they are not actually hideous, then they're larging it with the lads - kit wraps them in hideousness.
- It's the one night of the week when every young hip dude in the country is out on the town larging it (as I believe the younger generation say).
- You are a superstar DJ, thank you, and are still larging it so often your eyes fall out, you jealous little git.
- After several days with the system it became apparent that it's a brilliant compromise between a manual box and an auto, but it's no substitute for a stick when it comes to larging it.
adverb lɑːdʒlɑrdʒ Sailing another term for free (sense 2 of the adverb)
Phrases 1(especially of a criminal or dangerous animal) at liberty; escaped or not yet captured. the fugitive was still at large Example sentencesExamples - It also signifies fugitives and runaways, including known criminals who are at large such as escaped convicts.
- The four assailants were not captured and are still at large.
- Finally, a power of entry is given to recapture a person who is unlawfully at large and whom the police officer is pursuing.
- Police caught one of the thieves but the other eluded capture and is still at large.
- The other three suspects escaped and are still at large.
- That commander was believed to be one of the last few senior-level Nazi war criminals still living at large.
- As for the wolf, there were claims that three animals had been at large, one killed by a train, another caught in a trap and a third still at liberty.
- Please stay off the streets while these criminals are at large.
- The prosecution are entitled to raise it and it is their duty to do so rather than allow a dangerous person to be at large.
Synonyms at liberty, free, on the loose, on the run, fugitive there has been a loss of community values in society at large Example sentencesExamples - When I send you one, you take it from me, generalise it at a glance, bestow it thus generalised upon society at large, and make me the second discoverer of a known theorem.
- Like members of the public at large, the judge does not instruct jurors in a criminal case on what to think.
- There must be a frank, honest dialogue with the public at large, so that society as a whole learns to have realistic expectations and to accept that death is part of life.
- And for another, society at large will not in general desire that its members should be victims of cruelty, and so its desires in this respect will be frustrated too.
- The duty is owed not to the world at large (as a duty in criminal law would be), but only to an individual within the scope of the risk created, that is, to a foreseeable victim.
- The public at large believes criminals should be punished.
- I only hope that I am able to restrain them before these unutterable terrors escape into the world at large.
- He faces massive revolts in his own party and in the nation at large over a whole range of issues.
- The act required unclassified reports in order to inform Congress as a whole and the public at large.
- Society at large obviously doesn't value their education either.
Synonyms as a whole, as a body, generally, in general, in the main 3In a general way; without particularizing. he served as an ambassador at large in the Reagan Administration Example sentencesExamples - Carol Iannone is editor at large of Academic Questions..
- He will be like an ambassador at large, without portfolio.
- Mr. Yates is editor at large of Car and Driver magazine.
- In our second feature, editor at large Alision Stein Wellner shows us how this postponement of adulthood is affecting other parts of society.
- Michael Elliott is editor at large for ‘Time’ magazine here in New York City.
- He's now an editor at large at U.S. News and World Report.
- Sean Wilsey, an editor at large for McSweeney's quarterly, was born in San Francisco in 1970.
- Neil Hickey is editor at large at the Columbia Journalism Review.
- Editors at large publishing houses think they're inundated with manuscripts; what they're seeing is just the tip of the iceberg.
- Eric Hotung was appointed ambassador at large of East Timor last year and has been active in charitable and humanitarian work.
4At length; in great detail. writing at large on the policies he wished to pursue Example sentencesExamples - The column quoted veteran Carnival music-provider DJ Hurricane George, who detailed female Jouvert frustrations at large.
Synonyms in detail, with full details, exhaustively, at length, extensively
informal Go out and enjoy oneself, typically with drink or drugs; go clubbing. are you still having it large every weekend? Example sentencesExamples - The Pixies are back out and giving it large on the phonogram thingy.
- Dark, sleek, minimalist and atmospheric bordering on sinister, this is the kind of club where you might see Darth Vader having it large.
- They are giving it large with their renditions.
- No one wants to see gran and gramps in hot pants, nose jewellery and clip-on pony tails giving it large down the disco.
- I'm 43, and anyway she's the one that's out all the time, giving it large with her bridge club homies, experimenting with herbal infusions.
- The privileges were returned, and Irish players were often seen giving it large on both sides of the Blackthorn bar.
- Some celebs were actually earning a crust rather than just living it up and having it large.
- It was the sound of having it large, having a laugh and having the musical ‘x’ factor to match the headline-grabbing boasts.
- Despite the setbacks, both front tyres have no problem dispersing the power, even giving it large from a standstill, it barely bites back with any torque steer.
- Yes, middle England and the Outer Hebrides was there, united as one, in a scene not witnessed since last time I was at Glastonbury, sitting in a tent, listening to Primal Scream giving it large.
in large measure (or part) the success of the conference was due in large part to its organizers Example sentencesExamples - With lay-offs, how people take it is due, in large part, to how the company treats the event.
- The debate over whether or not commercial whaling should resume turns in large measure on the extent to which whale stocks have recovered.
- That's due, in large part, to designers who understand what it takes to make things.
- The rise of the credit card industry is due, in large part, to this data sharing.
- The sales of combine and silage harvesters dropped slightly, due in large measure to the difficult working conditions of the previous year.
- Yet still, the show was a success due in large part to its sexy interludes and charming leads.
- This was due in large part to the fact that security staff were unable to process passengers in time.
- But it made clear the failures were due in large part to the system under which they work.
- The drop in the surplus is due in large part to the tax rebate checks going out to millions of Americans.
- The Russian economy is growing fast as well, due in large part to the surge in world energy prices.
Derivatives noun ˈlɑːdʒnəsˈlɑrdʒnəs It is out of this that we will develop the largeness of heart, mind and spirit that will manifest the goodwill we must share with our fellow men. Example sentencesExamples - I use the structure of the lyric to arrive to that last line that will, in my hopes, open to the widest aperture, to the most light, to capture in the smallest of instances, the largeness of life and its myriad of possibilities.
- He also criticized the European Union for being a toy for political elites and civil servants, detested by the people for its largeness of scale, bureaucracy and megalomania.
- As bold, vivid, and accomplished as it was and still is, this work now seems without sufficient freedom of origin to nourish the largeness of vision that makes a piece of literature outlast its own time.
- I can understand the suffering she's experienced in a discriminatory society, but I felt very sad that someone who had campaigned for so long on largeness decided to go on the most depriving food regime.
adjective ˈlɑːdʒɪʃ Fairly large. Example sentencesExamples - her largish fan base
- We walked into the room and I was immediately struck by the number of people - it was a largish auditorium and there must have been more than 100 people there, and not all of them were my mates who'd been pressured into turning up, either.
- Why is a nation that could kick the butts of a largish portion of the planet and grind them under our boot if we so desired, so unanxious to build an empire?
- We have often been disappointed by the facilities offered by some hotels: we need quite a bit of space in the room, with plenty of seats, mirrors, tables, a largish bed and an ample bath.
Origin Middle English (in the sense 'liberal in giving, lavish, ample in quantity'): via Old French from Latin larga, feminine of largus 'copious'. Large is found in early examples with the meaning ‘liberal in giving, lavish, ample in quantity’. It came via Old French from Latin largus ‘copious’: also behind largesse (Middle English) ‘liberality, munificence’.
Rhymes barge, charge, enlarge, marge, raj, reportage, sarge, sparge, Swaraj, taj, undercharge Definition of large in US English: largeadjectivelɑrdʒlärj 1Of considerable or relatively great size, extent, or capacity. add a large clove of garlic the concert attracted large crowds the sweater comes in small, medium, and large sizes Example sentencesExamples - He drank and smoked far too much and obviously indulged in unhealthy eating given his large size.
- The unexplainable fact is, the cul-de-sac is of ample size for even a large van to turn round.
- The only area where a large sample has been taken is in the city of Termitau in Kazakhstan.
- I have a large cardboard box the size of a tea chest with an aperture in front which people can see through.
- At first the boy was deemed to be too large to be considered for the operation.
- It was about one metre tall with long arms and a skull the size of a large grapefruit.
- At points I was considering getting a large hammer and knocking most of my own teeth out.
- As in hurling, the playing field is about the size of a large football pitch, with a goal at either end.
- This is a very cheap yet effective way of loading up these large capacity reels.
- Even the language of large sizes discriminates against the women who wear them.
- The current study would only be able to detect a relatively large mortality difference.
- We have a considerably large Asian community in our school, many of whom are Muslims.
- It's a tattoo, not a bloody button - get it sized large enough to have a bit of impact.
- After all, it's a relatively large number and one reliant on a difficult definition.
- Not being inordinately large in size, he had the advantage of being an amateur boxer.
- Is there a relatively large group of people or an area that could be swayed by such arguments?
- There's a large outside balcony area which faces South over the city centre rooftops.
- Preterm infants get cold quickly because of their relatively large surface area.
- In front of each god was a miniature steel plate and a tumbler the size of a large thimble.
- A relatively large sum of money is required from members and friends of the club.
Synonyms big, great, huge, of considerable size, sizeable, substantial, immense, enormous, colossal, massive, mammoth, vast, cosmic, goodly, prodigious, tremendous, gigantic, giant, monumental, stupendous, gargantuan, elephantine, titanic, mountainous, monstrous big, burly, heavy, tall, bulky, thickset, heavyset, chunky, strapping, powerfully built, hefty, muscular, muscle-bound, brawny, muscly, husky, solid, powerful, sturdy, solidly built, broad-shouldered, strong, big and strong, rugged, herculean abundant, copious, plentiful, ample, liberal, generous, lavish, profuse, bountiful, bumper, boundless, teeming, overflowing, good, considerable, superabundant, opulent, handsome, galore, sufficient - 1.1 Pursuing an occupation or commercial activity on a significant scale.
many large investors are likely to take a different view Example sentencesExamples - China's economy is now the seventh largest in the world, eclipsing Canada.
- The difficulties of regional distribution add to the problem of building a market large enough to sustain the industry.
- Britain is a Trillion Pound economy, still the fourth largest in the world.
- Being a large economy, the euro zone is much less open than individual member states.
- The basic cause of the changed activities of large businesses is a matter of debate.
- The fate of rival bids for NatWest rest in the hands of the faceless large investors.
2Of wide range or scope. we can afford to take a larger view of the situation Example sentencesExamples - It has been happening on a very large scale in manufacturing industry in Britain.
- The forces were now effectively only capable of coping with one large scale operation at a time.
- We had to lop a year off that, as it would clearly be impossible to get actors to cover that large an age range.
- Had it done so, pain and tragedy and loss on a very large scale could have been avoided.
- This is the purposive activity of craving on a large scale, as it embraces all sentient life.
- However, on a large scale, the way in which the primes are distributed is very regular.
- Secondly, from a structural point of view it pervades large parts of the language system.
- The leaves were selected from different parts of the plants to span a large range of mass, area and age.
- Their effort had grown too large to be managed out of a rented house in Nong Khai.
- It has the infrastructure in place and knows the logistics of large scale delivery systems.
- It all points to disruption on rather a large scale and uncertainty at least in the medium term.
- It was when the latter came on board that we started to see the acceleration of large scale changes.
- The trouble is that that has now been tried on a large scale and the anger still seethes.
- He soon realised he had to go about the programme on a large scale to make it really useful.
- I'm not quite sure how this would work on a large scale, but at least it's an idea.
- This large range in ripe grapes is an important source of variation in quality.
- If an attacker staged such an assault on a large enough scale, the root servers would be unusable.
- It will be seen from this that Bellavitis worked on a large range of mathematical topics.
- Hence we should treat them instead with a large range of pharmaceutical agents.
- He was very grand and extreme, very artistic; everything he did was on a large scale.
Synonyms wide-reaching, far-reaching, wide-ranging, wide, sweeping, large-scale, broad, extensive, comprehensive, exhaustive, wholesale, global 3Sailing
another term for free (sense 8 of the adjective)
verblɑrdʒlärj [no object]large itBritish informal Enjoy oneself in a lively way with drink or drugs and music. he's known in clubland for his capacity for larging it Example sentencesExamples - And if they are not actually hideous, then they're larging it with the lads - kit wraps them in hideousness.
- After several days with the system it became apparent that it's a brilliant compromise between a manual box and an auto, but it's no substitute for a stick when it comes to larging it.
- It's the one night of the week when every young hip dude in the country is out on the town larging it (as I believe the younger generation say).
- And when I say we didn't go clubbing, I just mean we weren't larging it on a week night.
- You are a superstar DJ, thank you, and are still larging it so often your eyes fall out, you jealous little git.
- I pass a rabble of rampant orange-clad Dutch fans dressed as boy scouts wearing huge cartoon clogs, larging it up, singing and laughing.
- They did what they had to do, and then told me to go out and large it.
- Fans know we're real supporters, so it's a case of ‘you're one of us and you're doing alright’ rather than ‘it's him off the telly larging it.’
adverblɑrdʒlärj Sailing another term for free (sense 2 of the adverb)
Phrases 1(especially of a criminal or dangerous animal) at liberty; escaped or not yet captured. the fugitive was still at large Example sentencesExamples - As for the wolf, there were claims that three animals had been at large, one killed by a train, another caught in a trap and a third still at liberty.
- Please stay off the streets while these criminals are at large.
- That commander was believed to be one of the last few senior-level Nazi war criminals still living at large.
- It also signifies fugitives and runaways, including known criminals who are at large such as escaped convicts.
- The four assailants were not captured and are still at large.
- Finally, a power of entry is given to recapture a person who is unlawfully at large and whom the police officer is pursuing.
- The other three suspects escaped and are still at large.
- The prosecution are entitled to raise it and it is their duty to do so rather than allow a dangerous person to be at large.
- Police caught one of the thieves but the other eluded capture and is still at large.
Synonyms at liberty, free, on the loose, on the run, fugitive there has been a loss of community values in society at large Example sentencesExamples - Like members of the public at large, the judge does not instruct jurors in a criminal case on what to think.
- The public at large believes criminals should be punished.
- The act required unclassified reports in order to inform Congress as a whole and the public at large.
- Society at large obviously doesn't value their education either.
- He faces massive revolts in his own party and in the nation at large over a whole range of issues.
- There must be a frank, honest dialogue with the public at large, so that society as a whole learns to have realistic expectations and to accept that death is part of life.
- And for another, society at large will not in general desire that its members should be victims of cruelty, and so its desires in this respect will be frustrated too.
- The duty is owed not to the world at large (as a duty in criminal law would be), but only to an individual within the scope of the risk created, that is, to a foreseeable victim.
- When I send you one, you take it from me, generalise it at a glance, bestow it thus generalised upon society at large, and make me the second discoverer of a known theorem.
- I only hope that I am able to restrain them before these unutterable terrors escape into the world at large.
Synonyms as a whole, as a body, generally, in general, in the main 3In a general way; without particularizing. the magazine's editor at large Example sentencesExamples - Eric Hotung was appointed ambassador at large of East Timor last year and has been active in charitable and humanitarian work.
- Michael Elliott is editor at large for ‘Time’ magazine here in New York City.
- He's now an editor at large at U.S. News and World Report.
- In our second feature, editor at large Alision Stein Wellner shows us how this postponement of adulthood is affecting other parts of society.
- Editors at large publishing houses think they're inundated with manuscripts; what they're seeing is just the tip of the iceberg.
- He will be like an ambassador at large, without portfolio.
- Mr. Yates is editor at large of Car and Driver magazine.
- Sean Wilsey, an editor at large for McSweeney's quarterly, was born in San Francisco in 1970.
- Neil Hickey is editor at large at the Columbia Journalism Review.
- Carol Iannone is editor at large of Academic Questions..
4At length; in great detail. writing at large on the policies he wished to pursue Example sentencesExamples - The column quoted veteran Carnival music-provider DJ Hurricane George, who detailed female Jouvert frustrations at large.
Synonyms in detail, with full details, exhaustively, at length, extensively
in large measure (or part) the success of the conference was due in large part to its organizers Example sentencesExamples - The sales of combine and silage harvesters dropped slightly, due in large measure to the difficult working conditions of the previous year.
- The drop in the surplus is due in large part to the tax rebate checks going out to millions of Americans.
- With lay-offs, how people take it is due, in large part, to how the company treats the event.
- But it made clear the failures were due in large part to the system under which they work.
- That's due, in large part, to designers who understand what it takes to make things.
- The debate over whether or not commercial whaling should resume turns in large measure on the extent to which whale stocks have recovered.
- Yet still, the show was a success due in large part to its sexy interludes and charming leads.
- The Russian economy is growing fast as well, due in large part to the surge in world energy prices.
- This was due in large part to the fact that security staff were unable to process passengers in time.
- The rise of the credit card industry is due, in large part, to this data sharing.
Origin Middle English (in the sense ‘liberal in giving, lavish, ample in quantity’): via Old French from Latin larga, feminine of largus ‘copious’. |