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