huge
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[edit] Etymology
From Middle English, from Old French ahuge (“high, lofty, great, large, huge”), from a hoge (“at height”), from a (“at, to”) + hoge (“a hill, height”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *haug, houg (“height, hill”) or Old Norse haugr (“hill”), both from Proto-Germanic *haugaz (“hill, mound”), from Proto-Indo-European *koukos (“hill, mound”). Akin to Old High German houg "mound" (German Hügel "hill"), Icelandic haugr (“mound”), Lithuanian kaukaras (“hill”), Old High German hōh "high" (German hoch), Old English hēah (“high”). More at high.
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huge (comparative huger, superlative hugest)
- Very large
- The castle was huge.
- (slang) Distinctly interesting, significant, important, likeable, well regarded.
- Our next album is going to be huge!.
- In our league our coach is huge!.
[edit] Synonyms
- (very large): colossal, enormous, giant, gigantic, immense, prodigious, vast
- See also Wikisaurus:gigantic
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very large
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[edit] External links
- huge in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- huge in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
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- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Old French
- English terms derived from Germanic languages
- English terms derived from Frankish
- English terms derived from Old Norse
- English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English adjectives
- English slang
