[ UK /lˈɑːd‍ʒ/ ]
[ US /ˈɫɑɹdʒ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. having broad power and range and scope
    a large sympathy
    taking the large view
    a large effect
  2. 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
  3. ostentatiously lofty in style
    a man given to large talk
    tumid political prose
  4. fairly large or important in effect; influential
    played a large role in the negotiations
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. in an advanced stage of pregnancy
    was big with child
    was great with child
NOUN
  1. a garment size for a large person
ADVERB
  1. in a boastful manner
    he talked big all evening
  2. with the wind abaft the beam
    a ship sailing large
  3. at a distance, wide of something (as of a mark)
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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.
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