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Definitions of 'large' Wordnet 

1. (adj) large
a garment size for a large person

2. (adj) large, big
above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent
"a large city"; "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"

3. (adj) large
fairly large or important in effect; influential
"played a large role in the negotiations"

4. (adj) bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid
ostentatiously lofty in style
"a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"

5. (adj) big, large, magnanimous
generous and understanding and tolerant
"a heart big enough to hold no grudges"; "that's very big of you to be so forgiving"; "a large and generous spirit"; "a large heart"; "magnanimous toward his enemies"

6. (adj) big, large, prominent
conspicuous in position or importance
"a big figure in the movement"; "big man on campus"; "he's very large in financial circles"; "a prominent citizen"

7. (adj) large
having broad power and range and scope
"taking the large view"; "a large effect"; "a large sympathy"

8. (adverb) big(p), enceinte, expectant, gravid, great(p), large(p), heavy(p), with child(p)
in an advanced stage of pregnancy
"was big with child"; "was great with child"

9. (adverb) large
at a distance, wide of something (as of a mark)

10. (adverb) large
with the wind abaft the beam
"a ship sailing large"

11. (adverb) boastfully, vauntingly, big, large
in a boastful manner
"he talked big all evening"


Definitions of 'large' Webster 1913 Dictionary 

1. (adverb) large
freely; licentiously

2. (noun) large
a musical note, formerly in use, equal to two longs, four breves, or eight semibreves

3.  large
exceeding most other things of like kind in bulk, capacity, quantity, superficial dimensions, or number of constituent units; big; great; capacious; extensive; -- opposed to small; as, a large horse; a large house or room; a large lake or pool; a large jug or spoon; a large vineyard; a large army; a large city

4.  large
abundant; ample; as, a large supply of provisions

5.  large
full in statement; diffuse; full; profuse

6.  large
having more than usual power or capacity; having broad sympathies and generous impulses; comprehensive; -- said of the mind and heart

7.  large
free; unembarrassed

8.  large
unrestrained by decorum; -- said of language

9.  large
prodigal in expending; lavish

10.  large
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


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