large

See also: larĝe

English

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Etymology

From Middle English large, from Old French large, from 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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /lɑːdʒ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /lɑɹdʒ/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dʒ

Adjective

large ‎(comparative larger, superlative largest)

1. Of considerable or relatively great size or extent.
   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 2, in The Celebrity:

     We drove back to the office with some concern on my part at the prospect of so large a case. Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.

   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 Wikisaurus:large

Antonyms

• small, tiny, minuscule

Derived terms

Terms derived from large

• as large as life, larger than life
• by and large
• enlarge
• give it large

• have it large
• large it, large up, large it up
• largely

• largeness
• largish
• writ large

Translations

of greater size — See also translations at : big

Adyghe: абрагъу ‎(ābrāġ°) Albanian: gjerë (sq) Arabic: كَبِير (ar) ‎(kabīr), وَاسِع ‎(wāsiʿ) Armenian: մեծ (hy) ‎(mec), խոշոր (hy) ‎(xošor) Aromanian: mare Asturian: grande (ast) Azeri: böyuk Bengali: বড় ‎(bôŗô) Bulgarian: (goljam) голя́м (bg) ‎(goljám) Burmese: ကြီး (my) ‎(kri:), ကြီးမား (my) ‎(kri:ma:) Catalan: llarg (ca) Catawba: tro 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: ʽȝ Erzya: покш ‎(pokš) Esperanto: granda (eo) Estonian: suur (et) Evenki: со ‎(so) Faroese: stórur, mikil Finnish: iso (fi), suuri (fi) French: grand (fr) Friulian: grant, grand Georgian: (didi) დიდი (ka) ‎(didi) German: groß (de), weit (de) Greek: μεγάλος (el) ‎(megálos) 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: گه‌وره ‎(gewre), زل ‎(zil) Ladino: grande Lao: ກຶດ (lo) ‎(kưt), ໃຫຍ່ ‎(nyai) Latvian: liels (lv) Lithuanian: didelis (lt) Lojban: barda (jbo) Macedonian: голем m ‎(golem) Malay: besar (ms) Maori: nui (mi) Miskito: tara Navajo: tsoh Norman: gros (Jersey) Norwegian: stor (no) 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 ‎(ddobo) 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) Tswana: -golo Turkish: geniş (tr) 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

External links

• large in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• large in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Statistics

Most common English words before 1923: present · water · stood · #261: large · within · room · power

Anagrams

• Alger, Elgar, glare, lager, regal

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French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [laʁʒ]

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• Homophone: larges
• Hyphenation: large

Adjective

large m, f ‎(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

Descendants

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• Antillean Creole: laj
• Haitian Creole: laj
• Karipúna Creole French: laj
• Louisiana Creole French: laj, larj

Anagrams

• Alger, grêla, régal, régla

External links

• “large” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Latin

Adverb

large ‎(comparative largius, superlative largissime)

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

Adjective

large

1. vocative masculine singular of largus

References

• large in Charlton T. Lewis & 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, f

1. (Jersey) wide

Derived terms

Terms derived from large

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

• largement ‎(“widely”)

Noun

large m ‎(plural larges)

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

Synonyms

• (open sea): 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

• (fr) 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