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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
large \large\ laumrj, a. compar. larger laumr"j~er;
superl. largest. f., fr. l. largus. cf. largo.
1. exceeding most other things of like kind in bulk,
capacity, quantity, superficial dimensions, or number of
constituent units; big; great; capacious; extensive; --
opposed to small; as, a large horse; a large house or
room; a large lake or pool; a large jug or spoon; a large
vineyard; a large army; a large city.
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note: for linear dimensions, and mere extent, great, and not
large, is used as a qualifying word; as, great length,
breadth, depth; a great distance; a great height.
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2. abundant; ample; as, a large supply of provisions.
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we have yet large day. --milton.
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3. full in statement; diffuse; full; profuse.
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i might be very large upon the importance and
advantages of education. --felton.
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4. having more than usual power or capacity; having broad
sympathies and generous impulses; comprehensive; -- said
of the mind and heart.
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5. free; unembarrassed. obs.
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of burdens all he set the paynims large. --fairfax.
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6. unrestrained by decorum; -- said of language. obs. "some
large jests he will make." --shak.
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7. prodigal in expending; lavish. obs. --chaucer.
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8. naut. 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.
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at large.
a without restraint or confinement; as, to go at large;
to be left at large.
b diffusely; fully; in the full extent; as, to discourse
on a subject at large.
common at large. see under common, n.
electors at large, representative at large, electors, or
a representative, as in congress, chosen to represent the
whole of a state, in distinction from those chosen to
represent particular districts in a state. u. s.
to give large, to go large, to run large, or to sail
large naut., to have the wind crossing the direction of a
vessel's course in such a way that the sails feel its full
force, and the vessel gains its highest speed. see
large, a., 8.
syn: big; bulky; huge; capacious; comprehensive; ample;
abundant; plentiful; populous; copious; diffusive;
liberal.
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see also:
larger largest largo small at large common at large
common electors at large representative at large to give large to go large
to run large to sail large large
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
large \large\, adv.
freely; licentiously. obs. --chaucer.
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- [3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
large \large\, n. mus.
a musical note, formerly in use, equal to two longs, four
breves, or eight semibreves.
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- [4] : WordNet (r) 2.0
large
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: big ant: small, small
2: fairly large or important in effect; influential; "played a
large role in the negotiations"
3: large enough to be visible to the naked eye syn: macroscopic,
macroscopical ant: microscopic
4: ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk";
"tumid political prose" syn: bombastic, declamatory,
orotund, tumid, turgid
5: 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: big, magnanimous
6: 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: big, prominent
7: having broad power and range and scope; "taking the large
view"; "a large effect"; "a large sympathy"
8: in an advanced stage of pregnancy; "was big with child";
"was great with child" syn: bigp, enceinte, expectant,
gravid, greatp, largep, heavyp, with
childp
n : a garment size for a large person
adv 1: at a distance, wide of something as of a mark
2: with the wind abaft the beam; "a ship sailing large"
3: in a boastful manner; "he talked big all evening" syn: boastfully,
vauntingly, big
see also:
big small macroscopic macroscopical microscopic bombastic
declamatory orotund tumid turgid magnanimous
prominent bigp enceinte expectant gravid
greatp largep heavyp with childp boastfully
vauntingly
- [5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
140 moby thesaurus words for "large":
brobdingnagian, gargantuan, adipose, altogether, ample,
amplitudinous, as a whole, astronomical, at large, at liberty,
awesome, beamy, beneficent, big, bighearted, boundless, bounteous,
bountiful, brawny, broad, bulky, bull, bumper, burly, capacious,
charitable, chiefly, chunky, colossal, considerable, corpulent,
cosmic, eleemosynary, elephantine, eminently, enormous, excessive,
exorbitant, extensive, extravagant, extreme, fat, free, freehanded,
freehearted, galactic, gargantuan, generally, generous, gigantic,
giving, good, goodly, gracious, grand, great, greathearted,
handsome, healthy, heavy, hefty, hospitable, huge, humongous,
husky, immeasurable, immense, immoderate, imposingly, in a body,
in general, in the main, infinite, inordinate, jumbo, kind,
king-size, large-scale, largehearted, lavish, liberal, magnanimous,
mainly, major, mammoth, man-sized, massive, massy, monster,
monstrous, monumental, mountainous, munificent, muscular, numerous,
obese, on the loose, open, open-handed, openhanded, openhearted,
outsize, overgrown, overweight, philanthropic, portly, princely,
prodigious, profuse, prominently, rotund, sizable, sizeable, solid,
spacious, staggering, stintless, stocky, stout, strapping,
stupendous, sturdy, substantial, tall, thickset, tidy, titanic,
tremendous, unconfined, unfettered, ungrudging, unrestrained,
unselfish, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting, vast, voluminous,
weighty, wide
- [6] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
large. broad; extensive; unconfined. the opposite of strict, narrow, or
confined. at large, at liberty.
- [7] : U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
large, pa
zip codes: 15025
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