large

See also: larĝe

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English large, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French large, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin larga, feminine of largus (“abundant, plentiful, copious, large, much”). Mostly displaced Middle English stoor, stour (“large, great”) (from Old English stōr) and muchel (“large, great”) (from Old English myċel).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑːd͡ʒ/
• (General American) (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑɹd͡ʒ/
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• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dʒ

Adjective

large (comparative larger, superlative largest)

1. Of considerable or relatively great size or extent.

   Russia is a large country.   The fruit-fly has large eyes for its body size.   He has a large collection of stamps.

2. (obsolete) Abundant; ample.
   • Milton

     We have yet large day.

3. (archaic) Full in statement; diffuse; profuse.
   • Felton

     I might be very large upon the importance and advantages of education.

4. (obsolete) Free; unencumbered.
   • Fairfax

     Of burdens all he set the Paynims large.

5. (obsolete) Unrestrained by decorum; said of language.
   • Shakespeare

     Some large jests he will make.

6. (nautical) 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.

Synonyms

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• big, huge, giant, gigantic, enormous, stour, great, mickle, largeish
• See also Thesaurus:large

Antonyms

• small, tiny, minuscule

Derived terms

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• as large as life, larger than life
• by and large
• enlarge
• give it large
• have it large
• large and in charge
• large it, large up, large it up
• largely
• largeness
• largish
• writ large

 

Translations

of greater size — see also big

• Adyghe: абрагъу (abrağʷu)
• Albanian: gjerë (sq)
• Arabic: كَبِير (ar) (kabīr), وَاسِع (wāsiʕ)
• Armenian: մեծ (hy) (mec), խոշոր (hy) (xošor)
• Aromanian: mare
• Asturian: grande (ast)
• Azerbaijani: böyuk
• Bengali: বড় (bôŗô)
• Bulgarian: голя̀м (bg) (goljàm), ѐдър (bg) (èdǎr), висо̀к (bg) (visòk), обшѝрен (bg) (obšìren), широ̀к (bg) (širòk)
• Burmese: ကြီး (my) (kri:), ကြီးမား (my) (kri:ma:)
• Catalan: llarg (ca)
• Catawba: tro
• Central Sierra Miwok: ˀýṭ·y·kyta-
• Chamicuro: s̈hojta
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 大 (zh) (daai6)

  Dungan: да (da)

  Mandarin: 大 (zh) (dà), 大型 (dàxíng)

• Choctaw: chito
• Cornish: (unified) brâs
• Czech: velký (cs)
• Dalmatian: maur, grund, gruond
• Dutch: groot (nl)
• Egyptian: (ꜥꜣ)
• Erzya: покш (pokš)
• Esperanto: granda (eo)
• Estonian: suur (et)
• Evenki: со (so)
• Faroese: stórur, mikil
• Finnish: suuri (fi), iso (fi)
• French: grand (fr)
• Friulian: grant, grand
• Georgian: (didi) დიდი (ka) (didi)
• German: groß (de), weit (de)
• Greek: μεγάλος (el) (megálos)
• Greenlandic: angivoq
• Hebrew: גדול (he) (gadol)
• Hungarian: nagy (hu)
• Icelandic: mikill (is) (number/quantity), stór (is)
• Ido: granda (io)
• Indonesian: besar (id)
• Irish: mór
• Istriot: grando
• Italian: grande (it)
• Japanese: 大きい (ja) (おおきい, ōkii)
• Khmer: ធំ (km) (tʰom)
• Korean: 큰 (ko) (keun)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: ,

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• Ladino: grande
• Lao: ກຶດ (lo) (kưt), ໃຫຍ່ (nyai)
• Latgalian: lels
• Latvian: liels
• Lithuanian: didelis (lt)
• Macedonian: голем m (golem)
• Malay: besar (ms)
• Maori: nui (mi)
• Miskito: tara
• Navajo: tsoh
• Norman: gros (Jersey)
• Norwegian: stor (no)
• Old English: miċel
• Pashto: ستر (ps) (stër), لوی (loi)
• Persian: بزرگ (fa) (bozorg), گنده (fa) (gonde), لارژ (lârž)
• Polish: duży (pl)
• Portuguese: grande (pt)
• Rapa Nui: nui
• Ratahan: lowen
• Rohingya: boro
• Romani: bāro
• Romanian: mare (ro)
• Russian: большо́й (ru) (bolʹšój), кру́пный (ru) (krúpnyj)
• Santali: ᱰᱳᱵᱳ (ḍobo)
• Scottish Gaelic: tomadach
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: велик

  Roman: velik (sh)

• Slovak: veľký (sk)
• Slovene: velik (sl)
• Spanish: grande (es)
• Swahili: -kubwa (sw)
• Swedish: stor (sv)
• Tajik: бузург (tg) (buzurg)
• Telugu: పెద్ద (te) (pedda), భారీ (te) (bhārī)
• Thai: ใหญ่ (th) (yài)
• Tibetan: ཆེན་པོ (chen po)
• Tswana: -golo
• Turkish: geniş (tr)
• Ukrainian: вели́кий (velýkyj), чима́лий (čymályj), здоро́вий (zdoróvyj) (colloquial)
• Urdu: بڑا (baṛā)
• Venetian: gran, grando (vec)
• Vietnamese: rộng (vi)
• Võro: suur
• Waray-Waray: da-ko
• Welsh: braisg, mawr (cy)
• West Frisian: grut (fy)
• Yiddish: גרויס (groys)
• Zuni: łana

Noun

large (countable and uncountable, plural larges)

1. (music, obsolete) An old musical note, equal to two longas, four breves, or eight semibreves.
2. (obsolete) Liberality, generosity.
3. (slang, plural: large) A thousand dollars/pounds.

   Getting a car tricked out like that will cost you 50 large.

4. A large serving of something.

   One small coffee and two larges, please.

Derived terms

• at large

Further reading

• “large”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “large”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Agler, Alger, Elgar, Ragle, ergal, glare, lager, regal

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French

Etymology

From Old French large, from Latin largus, larga, largum (“abundant, plentiful, copious, large, much”). The feminine is inherited, but for the masculine, Latin largum (the masculine and neuter accusative) developed into Old French larc, which was discarded.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /laʁʒ/
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• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Homophone: larges
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Hyphenation: large

Adjective

large (plural larges)

1. wide, broad
2. large
3. generous

Noun

large m (plural larges)

1. open sea
2. width

Synonyms

• (open sea): haute mer
• (width): largeur

Anagrams

• Alger, grêla, régal, régla

Further reading

• “large”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Latin

Adverb

largē (comparative largius, superlative largissimē)

1. munificently, generously, liberally.
2. abundantly, copiously.
3. to a great extent.

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) large

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) vocative masculine singular of largus

References

• “large”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “large”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

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Norman

Etymology

From Old French large, from Latin largus (“abundant, plentiful, copious, large, much”).

Adjective

large m or f

1. (Jersey) wide

Derived terms

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• large d'bord, large d'run (“broad in the beam”)
• largement (“widely”)

 

Noun

large m (plural larges)

1. (Jersey, nautical) open sea, deep sea

   Synonym: plieine mé

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Old French

Alternative forms

• larc (Roman de Renard, "wide")

Etymology

From Latin largus, larga.

Adjective

large m (oblique and nominative feminine singular large)

1. generous
2. large; big
3. wide (when used to differentiate between height, width and length)

Descendants

• French: large
• Norman: large

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (large, supplement)
• large on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub