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Large   /lɑrdʒ/   Listen
Large

adjective
(compar. larger; superl. largest)
1.
Above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent.  Synonym: big.  "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"
2.
Fairly large or important in effect; influential.
3.
Ostentatiously lofty in style.  Synonyms: bombastic, declamatory, orotund, tumid, turgid.  "Tumid political prose"
4.
Generous and understanding and tolerant.  Synonyms: big, magnanimous.  "That's very big of you to be so forgiving" , "A large and generous spirit" , "A large heart" , "Magnanimous toward his enemies"
5.
Conspicuous in position or importance.  Synonyms: big, prominent.  "Big man on campus" , "He's very large in financial circles" , "A prominent citizen"
6.
Having broad power and range and scope.  "A large effect" , "A large sympathy"
7.
In an advanced stage of pregnancy.  Synonyms: big, enceinte, expectant, gravid, great, heavy, with child.  "Was great with child"
noun
1.
A garment size for a large person.
adverb
1.
At a distance, wide of something (as of a mark).
2.
With the wind abaft the beam.
3.
In a boastful manner.  Synonyms: big, boastfully, vauntingly.



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... cane, so there is, in the same latitude, a state of society in which it is desirable that the industry of men should be almost entirely directed towards the cultivation of the earth, and another state of society in which it is desirable that a large part of the population should be employed in manufactures. No dependence can be conceived more natural, more salutary, more free from everything like degradation than the mutual dependence which exists between a nation which has a boundless ...
— The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, Vol. 4 (of 4) - Lord Macaulay's Speeches • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... that morning when she heard the new voice at the kitchen door, and she had gone there for a moment to look him over; for strange faces, even those of loutish farm-hands, were refreshing in her isolated life. She had not heard what the lad was saying to Isom, for the kitchen was large and the stove far away from the door, but she had the passing thought that there was a good deal of earnestness or passion in the harangue for a farm-hand to be laying on ...
— The Bondboy • George W. (George Washington) Ogden

... occupied still exists—one of the large circular towers on the third line of the fortifications. A gloomy-looking cryptal room on the ground floor was probably the one occupied by Joan. It goes by the name of Belier's Tower—a knight whose wife, Anne de Maille, ...
— Joan of Arc • Ronald Sutherland Gower

... become as loyal as whigs. George was fully determined to put an end to this state of things: he would be master in his own kingdom; he and not the whigs should govern England. He naturally rejoiced to see the tories, a large and important body of his subjects, reconciled to the throne; and as he had been brought up in tory principles, he welcomed with peculiar pleasure the support of the party of prerogative. The tories ...
— The Political History of England - Vol. X. • William Hunt

... went Eirik and fetched the pillars from Breidabolstadr, and Thorgest went after him. They fought at a short distance from the hay-yard at Drangar, and there fell two sons of Thorgest, and some other men. After that they both kept a large body of men together. Styr gave assistance to Eirik, as also did Eyjolf, of Sviney, Thorbjorn Vifilsson, and the sons of Thorbrand, of Alptafjordr (Swanfirth). But the sons of Thord Gellir, as also Thorgeir, of Hitardalr (Hotdale), Aslak, of Langadalr (Longdale), and Illugi, his ...
— Eirik the Red's Saga • Anonymous


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