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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.
      1913 webster

   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.
         1913 webster

   2. abundant; ample; as, a large supply of provisions.
      1913 webster

            we have yet large day.                --milton.
      1913 webster

   3. full in statement; diffuse; full; profuse.
      1913 webster

            i might be very large upon the importance and
            advantages of education.              --felton.
      1913 webster

   4. having more than usual power or capacity; having broad
      sympathies and generous impulses; comprehensive; -- said
      of the mind and heart.
      1913 webster

   5. free; unembarrassed. obs.
      1913 webster

            of burdens all he set the paynims large. --fairfax.
      1913 webster

   6. unrestrained by decorum; -- said of language. obs. "some
      large jests he will make." --shak.
      1913 webster

   7. prodigal in expending; lavish. obs. --chaucer.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

   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.
        1913 webster
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.
   1913 webster

[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.
   1913 webster

[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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