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UK
/lˈɑːdʒ/
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[ US /ˈɫɑɹdʒ/ ]
[ US /ˈɫɑɹdʒ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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having broad power and range and scope
a large sympathy
taking the large view
a large effect -
generous and understanding and tolerant
a large and generous spirit
a heart big enough to hold no grudges
a large heart
that's very big of you to be so forgiving
magnanimous toward his enemies -
ostentatiously lofty in style
a man given to large talk
tumid political prose -
fairly large or important in effect; influential
played a large role in the negotiations -
above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent
big businesses
a big group of scientists
a large family
a large city
a big expenditure
a big (or large) barn
set out for the big city
large areas of the world
a large number of newspapers
a large sum -
conspicuous in position or importance
he's very large in financial circles
a big figure in the movement
big man on campus
a prominent citizen -
in an advanced stage of pregnancy
was big with child
was great with child
NOUN
- a garment size for a large person
ADVERB
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in a boastful manner
he talked big all evening -
with the wind abaft the beam
a ship sailing large - at a distance, wide of something (as of a mark)
How To Use large In A Sentence
- In the forecabins, the head and shower is located forward and has a large mirrored vanity with ample storage below.
- The affinities between music and poetry have been familiar since antiquity, though they are largely ignored in the current intellectual climate.
- She is also part of a large group of oceanographers and taphonomists of the SSETI project (Shelf / Slope Taphonomic Initiative) examining carbonate preservation and destruction across the shelf and slope regions in Gulf of Mexico and Bahamas using submersibles.
- Added to which there is a large increase in the fees receivable in 1994 to a level of almost £123,000 which accounts for the large increase in the gross profit over the previous and subsequent years.
- Larger butter pieces (not huge, of course, but quite a bit larger than “wet sand”) result in a flakier biscuit. 2009 March | Baking Bites
- ‘Break, break, break,’ for instance, is a bitter poem on unrecompensed, pointless loss, but it achieves its power and makes its point very indirectly, largely through structural implications.
- Every large town will have quite a few horologers and jewelers with a vast selection of fancy watches displayed their windows, with huge price tags to go with them.
- The beak is smoth, black, convex and cultrated; one and 1/8 inches from the point to the opening of the chaps and 3/4 only uncovered with feathers; the upper chap exceeds the other a little in length. a few small black hairs garnish the sides of the base of the upper chap. the eye is of a uniform deep sea green or black, moderately large. it's legs feet and tallons are white; the legs are an inch and a 1/4 in length and smoth; four toes on each foot, of which that in front is the same length with the leg including the length of the tallon, which is 4 lines; the three remaining toes are The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
- They also caught a couple of large kingfish and many skipjack.
- It was then allowed to recover on the stringer in deeper water before being returned alive to grow on to even larger proportions.
