Large \Large\ (l[aum]rj), a. [Compar. Larger (l[aum]r"j[~e]r);
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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Large \Large\, adv.
Freely; licentiously. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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: big(p), enceinte, expectant,
gravid, great(p), large(p), heavy(p), with
child(p)]
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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
LARGE. Broad; extensive; unconfined. The opposite of strict, narrow, or
confined. At large, at liberty.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
Large, PA
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