huge
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Old French ahuge (“‘high, lofty, great, large, huge, also as adv., in great quantity or number’”), from a hoge (“‘at height’”) from a- (from Latin ad (“‘at, on, in’”)) + hoge (“‘a hill, height’”) of Germanic origin akin to Old Norse haugr "hill" from Proto-Germanic *hauga- (“‘hill, mound’”) from Proto-Indo-European *koukos (“‘hill, mound’”). Akin to Icel haugr "mound", O.H.G. houg "mound" (Ger Hügel "hill"), Lithuanian kaukaras "hill", O.H.G. hōh "high", Old English hēah "high". More at high
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[edit] Adjective
huge (comparative huger, superlative hugest)
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- 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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[edit] Translations
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