largeadjective
uk/lɑːdʒ/us/lɑːrdʒ/A2 big in size or amount:
a large house
the world's largest computer manufacturer
We need a larger car.
We didn't expect such a large number of people to attend the concert.
We've made good progress, but there's still a large amount of work to be done.
There was a larger-than-expected fall in unemployment last month.
Researchers have just completed the largest-ever survey of criminal behaviour in the UK
The population faces starvation this winter without large-scale emergency food aid.
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- A large house like this must be expensive to heat.
- The Black Sea is a large inland sea.
- Has she had any experience of managing large projects?
- We had to cross a large area of arid, featureless desert.
- I come from a large family - I have three brothers and two sisters.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Big and quite big
- appreciable
- baronial
- burly
- capacious
- commodious
- fair
- grand
- heavy
- juicy
- L, l
- large-scale
- largish
- macro
- mass
- spacious
- supersize
- swamp
- sweeping
- the bigger the better idiom
- walk-in
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Idiom(s)
by and large
(as) large as life
larger than life
largeverb
uk/lɑːdʒ/us/lɑːrdʒ/larging it UK informal
enjoying yourself very much by dancing and drinking alcohol:
We were larging it at a club last night.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Paying money
- ante
- charge
- chargeable
- congestion charge
- demurrage
- disburse
- discharge
- disgorge
- fork
- fork out sth
- overspend
- pay up
- pick up the bill/tab idiom
- put sth down 1
- repayable
- self-financing
- sink
- spring
- tip
- worth
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