LARGE as NOUN

  1. Meaning
    • a garment size for a large person
    Hypernyms(s) large is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower

LARGE as ADJECTIVE

  1. Meaning
    • having broad power and range and scope
    Usage Example(s)
    • taking the large view
    • a large effect
    • a large sympathy
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  2. Meaning
    • conspicuous in position or importance
    Synonym(s) Usage Example(s)
    • a big figure in the movement
    • big man on campus
    • he’’s very large in financial circles
    • a prominent citizen
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  3. Meaning
    • generous and understanding and tolerant
    Synonym(s) Usage Example(s)
    • a heart big enough to hold no grudges
    • that’’s very big of you to be so forgiving
    • a large and generous spirit
    • a large heart
    • magnanimous toward his enemies
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  4. Meaning
    • above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent
    Synonym(s) Usage Example(s)
    • a large city
    • set out for the big city
    • a large sum
    • a big (or large) barn
    • a large family
    • big businesses
    • a big expenditure
    • a large number of newspapers
    • a big group o
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  5. Meaning
    • large enough to be visible to the naked eye
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  6. Meaning
    • ostentatiously lofty in style
    Synonym(s) Usage Example(s)
    • a man given to large talk
    • tumid political prose
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  7. Meaning
    • fairly large or important in effect
    • influential
    Usage Example(s)
    • played a large role in the negotiations
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LARGE as ADVERB

  1. Meaning
    • in a boastful manner
    Synonym(s) Usage Example(s)
    • he talked big all evening
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  2. Meaning
    • with the wind abaft the beam
    Usage Example(s)
    • a ship sailing large
  3. Meaning
    • at a distance, wide of something (as of a mark)