large
IPA: ɫˈɑrdʒ
noun
- (music, obsolete) An old musical note, equal to two longas, four breves, or eight semibreves.
- (obsolete) Liberality, generosity.
- (slang, plural: large) A thousand dollars/pounds.
- (uncountable, especially clothing, food or drink) One of several common sizes to which an item may be manufactured.
- (countable, especially clothing, food or drink) An item labelled or denoted as being that size.
- (countable, especially with respect to clothing) One who fits an item of that size.
- A surname.
adjective
- Of considerable or relatively great size or extent.
- (especially clothing, food or drink) That is large (the manufactured size).
- (obsolete) Abundant; ample.
- (archaic) Full in statement; diffuse; profuse.
- (obsolete) Free; unencumbered.
- (obsolete) Unrestrained by decorum; said of language.
- (nautical) 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.
adverb
- (nautical) Before the wind.
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Examples of "large" in Sentences
- The big school had a large student body.
- Pelicans are large birds with large pouched bills.
- It will be large and transformative, but not millenarian.
- Harridans resemble a very large gargoyle with great wings.
- The large gap of the rich and the poor is a big social problem.
- Most had a topsail above the huge mainsail and a large foresail.
- The county is largely covered by the dense forest of the Big Thicket.
- "Get samples to test, and make the label large enough for your bar code,"
- It was such a large job they had to subcontract a large portion of the work.
- The viola largely disappeared from pop music at the start of the big band era.
- The players, lonesome on a large stage with a huge open space above them, sounded further away than they looked.
- IV. i.53 (297,5) [word too large] So he uses _large jests_ in this play, for _licentious, not restrained within due bounds_.
- This is mainly to keep my mailbox from getting flooded with the large number of resulting responses. (and I do mean * large*).
- Medvedev said Thursday Russia is gravely concerned by what he calls the "large number of people dying" in the Syrian uprising.
- -- Since such an aeroplane would be of low velocity, and therefore possess a large angle of incidence, a _large camber_ would be necessary.
- In the _centre of the large circle_ which surrounds the head, and just above the tablet, is a _large medallion_, with the sun behind a cloud, and round it "Et latet et lucet."
- "Frames are very expensive things, and, on that account, I shall not attempt another large picture for some time, although Mr. West advises me to paint _large_ as much as possible.
- Now, when I say our large fires, I mean the _large_ fires of _America_, consisting of three or four oak trees, containing a load of wood each, besides many large boughs and branches, altogether forming a fire some twenty or thirty feet long, with flames flickering up twice as high as one's head.
- The space enclosed by the walls was very large; and as in modern times many new buildings and ranges of buildings have been erected within, with streets and courts between them, the place has now the appearance of being a little town enclosed by walls, and surrounded by a ditch with bridges, and standing in the midst of a _large_ town.
- It is affirmed that the aumils and renters exact from the proprietors of the actual harvest a large increase in kind on their stipulated rent: that is, from those who hold their _pottah_ by the tenure of paying _one half_ of the produce of their crops, either _the whole_ without subterfuge, or a _large_ proportion of it by a _false measurement_ or other pretexts; and from those whose engagements are for