large
//lɑːd͡ʒ//
Forms
- Comparative
- larger
- Superlative
- largest
- Plural
- larges
Definitions
1.Of considerable or relatively great size or extent.
- Russia is a large country. The fruit-fly has large eyes for its body size. He has a large collection of stamps.
- 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.
- 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.
2.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.
- A mouse is not a large animal.
- My room is three times as large as yours.
- Do you have a large family?
3.That is large (the manufactured size).
- A mouse is not a large animal.
- My room is three times as large as yours.
- Do you have a large family?
1.A thousand dollars/pounds.(slang)
- Getting a car tricked out like that will cost you 50 large.
- 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.
2.One of several common sizes to which an item may be manufactured, larger than a medium.
3.An item labelled or denoted as being that size.
- One small coffee and two larges, please.
4.One who fits an item of that size.
1.Before the wind.
Frequency
Overall
Very common· #270
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Very common
- Academic
- Common
- Literature
- Uncommon
Related words
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.