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Large

adjective

(compar. larger; superl. largest)

1.

Above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent. Synonym: big. "Set out for the big city" , "A large sum" , "A big (or large) barn" , "A large family" , "Big businesses" , "A big expenditure" , "A large number of newspapers" , "A big group of scientists" , "Large areas of the world"

2.

Fairly large or important in effect; influential.

3.

Ostentatiously lofty in style. Synonyms: bombastic, declamatory, orotund, tumid, turgid. "Tumid political prose"

4.

Generous and understanding and tolerant. Synonyms: big, magnanimous. "That's very big of you to be so forgiving" , "A large and generous spirit" , "A large heart" , "Magnanimous toward his enemies"

5.

Conspicuous in position or importance. Synonyms: big, prominent. "Big man on campus" , "He's very large in financial circles" , "A prominent citizen"

6.

Having broad power and range and scope. "A large effect" , "A large sympathy"

7.

In an advanced stage of pregnancy. Synonyms: big, enceinte, expectant, gravid, great, heavy, with child. "Was great with child"

noun

1.

A garment size for a large person.

adverb

1.

At a distance, wide of something (as of a mark).

2.

With the wind abaft the beam.

3.

In a boastful manner. Synonyms: big, boastfully, vauntingly.

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"Large" Quotes from Famous Books

... quoth Richard most fervently. "Another hour in this cursed kennel with the fever on me and I should be a yammering loose-wit." And I, too, was glad enough to see the stars again, and to be at large beneath them. ...

— The Master of Appleby • Francis Lynde

... had her Tyburn, to which the devoted victims of justice were conducted in solemn procession up what is now called Oxford Street. In Edinburgh, a large open street, or rather oblong square, surrounded by high houses, called the Grassmarket, was used for the same melancholy purpose. It was not ill chosen for such a scene, being of considerable extent, and therefore fit to accommodate a great number of spectators, such as are usually ...

— The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott

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— The 2007 CIA World Factbook • United States

... you, dear child, promise me to use your influence with that loutish old peasant of a grandfather, you shall have the beatitude of actually pouring tea at one of my Thursday afternoons, and I'll even invite your mother to my next large reception——" ...

— Under the Skylights • Henry Blake Fuller

... around noontime on July 8, 1947. He had read numerous newspaper articles pertaining to flying discs and decided to sit on his front porch in the hopes of seeing one and attempting to photograph it. On July 8, 1947 BILLY observed a large, black object moving rapidly through space proceeding from the southwest to a northeast direction. He said the black object was followed by two smaller objects which also proceeded in the same direction. BILLY explained ...

— Federal Bureau of Investigation FOIA Documents - Unidentified Flying Objects • United States Federal Bureau of Investigation

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