[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

big \big\ bi^g, a. compar. bigger; superl. biggest.
   perh. from celtic; cf. w. beichiog, beichiawg, pregnant,
   with child, fr. baich burden, arm. beac'h; or cf. oe. bygly,
   icel. biggiligr, properly habitable; then magnigicent,
   excellent, fr. oe. biggen, icel. byggja, to dwell, build,
   akin to e. be.
   1. having largeness of size; of much bulk or magnitude; of
      great size; large. "he's too big to go in there." --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. great with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth
      or produce; -- often figuratively.
      1913 webster

            day big with the fate of cato and of rome.
                                                  --addison.
      1913 webster

   3. having greatness, fullness, importance, inflation,
      distention, etc., whether in a good or a bad sense; as, a
      big heart; a big voice; big looks; to look big. as applied
      to looks, it indicates haughtiness or pride.
      1913 webster

            god hath not in heaven a bigger argument. --jer.
                                                  taylor.
      1913 webster

   note: big is often used in self-explaining compounds; as,
         big-boned; big-sounding; big-named; big-voiced.
         1913 webster

   to talk big, to talk loudly, arrogantly, or pretentiously.
      1913 webster

            i talked big to them at first.        --de foe.
      1913 webster

   syn: bulky; large; great; massive; gross.
        1913 webster big
see also:
bigger biggest to talk big 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

big \big\, bigg \bigg\, v. t. oe. biggen, fr. icel. byggja to
   inhabit, to build, b?a neut. to dwell active to make
   ready. see boor, and bound.
   to build. scot.  north of eng. dial. --sir w. scott.
   1913 webster
see also:
boor bound 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

big \big\, bigg \bigg\, n. oe. bif, bigge; akin to icel. bygg,
   dan. byg, sw. bjugg. bot.
   barley, especially the hardy four-rowed kind.
   1913 webster

         "bear interchanges in local use, now with barley, now
         with bigg."                              --new english
                                                  dict.
   1913 webster big

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

big
     adj 1: above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or
            extent; "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 of scientists"; "large
            areas of the world" syn: large ant: small, small
     2: significant; "graduation was a big day in his life"
     3: of very great significance; "deciding to drop the atom bomb
        was a very big decision"; "a momentous event" syn: momentous
     4: conspicuous in position or importance; "a big figure in the
        movement"; "big man on campus"; "he's very large in
        financial circles"; "a prominent citizen" syn: large, prominent
     5: very intense; "a bad headache"; "in a big rage"; "had a big
        or bad shock"; "a bad earthquake"; "a bad storm" syn: bad
     6: loud and firm; "a big voice"; "big bold piano sounds"
     7: prodigious; "big spender"; "big eater"; "heavy investor"
        syn: biga, heavya
     8: of animals fully developed; "an adult animal"; "a grown
        woman" syn: adult, full-grown, fully grown, grown,
         grownup
     9: marked by intense physical force; "a big wind"
     10: feeling self-importance; "too big for his britches"; "had a
         swelled head"; "he was swelled with pride" syn: swelled,
          vainglorious
     11: older brother or sister; "big sister" syn: biga, elder,
          older ant: littlea
     12: exhibiting self-importance; "big talk" syn: boastful, braggarta,
          bragginga, braggy, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandizing,
          self-aggrandising
     13: generous and understanding and tolerant; "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" syn: large, magnanimous
     14: given or giving freely; "was a big tipper"; "the bounteous
         goodness of god"; "bountiful compliments"; "a freehanded
         host"; "a handsome allowance"; "saturday's child is
         loving and giving"; "a liberal backer of the arts"; "a
         munificent gift"; "her fond and openhanded grandfather"
         syn: bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded,
          handsome, giving, liberal, openhanded
     15: in an advanced stage of pregnancy; "was big with child";
         "was great with child" syn: bigp, enceinte, expectant,
          gravid, greatp, largep, heavyp, with
         childp
     adv 1: extremely well; "his performance went over big"
     2: in a boastful manner; "he talked big all evening" syn: boastfully,
         vauntingly, large
     3: on a grand scale; "think big" ant: small
     4: in a major way; "the play failed big at the box office"
     also: biggest, bigger
see also:
large small momentous prominent bad biga 
heavya adult full-grown fully grown grown 
grownup swelled vainglorious elder older 
littlea boastful braggarta bragginga braggy 
cock-a-hoop crowing self-aggrandizing self-aggrandising magnanimous 
bighearted bounteous bountiful freehanded handsome 
giving liberal openhanded bigp enceinte 
expectant gravid greatp largep heavyp 
with childp boastfully vauntingly biggest bigger 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

180 moby thesaurus words for "big":
   adult, aggrandized, ample, apotheosized, arrogant, arty, awash,
   awesome, awful, awfully, beatified, benevolent, big boy,
   big cheese, big noise, big shot, big-league, big-name, big-time,
   bighearted, bigwig, bigwigged, bombastic, brimful, brimming, bull,
   bumper, canonized, capacious, chivalrous, chock-full, cloyed,
   clumsy, commodious, comprehensive, condescending, consequential,
   considerable, considerate, copious, crammed, crowded, damned,
   deified, distended, domineering, double-barreled, earthshaking,
   elevated, eminent, ennobled, enshrined, enthroned, exalted,
   excellent, expectant, expecting, extensive, extravagant, extremely,
   fat, flushed, full to bursting, gassy, generous, glorified,
   glutted, gone, goodly, grand, gravid, great, great gun,
   great of heart, greathearted, greatly, grown, grown-up, handsome,
   haughty, healthy, heavy, heavyweight, hefty, held in awe, heroic,
   high, high and mighty, high-faluting, high-flown, high-headed,
   high-minded, high-nosed, high-powered, high-sounding,
   high-swelling, highfalutin, highfaluting, hoity-toity, hugely,
   hulking, husky, idealistic, immortal, immortalized, important,
   imposing, inflated, knightly, large, large-scale, largehearted,
   liberal, lion, lofty, magnanimous, magnified, major, man-sized,
   marriable, marriageable, material, mature, maturescent, meaningful,
   mighty, momentous, much, name, noble, noble-minded, nubile,
   numerous, of age, of marriageable age, old, openhanded,
   overbearing, overblown, overflowing, packed, parturient,
   patronizing, pretentious, princely, proud, purse-proud, replete,
   roomy, sainted, sanctified, sated, satiated, satisfied,
   self-important, shrined, significant, sizable, spacious, stuck-up,
   stuffed, sublime, substantial, supereminent, superior, swollen,
   tall, throned, tidy, toplofty, unwieldy, uppish, uppity, upstage,
   voluminous, weighty, whacking, whopping, windy, world-shaking

[6] : Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002)

big
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[7] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

\big
     
         prefix of several latex commands implying a larger
        symbol.  see the command without "big".  often used to convert
        a dyadic operator into a function which operates on a set.
        e.g. \sqcup, \bigsqcup.
     
        1995-02-03
     
     
see also:
latex dyadic 

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