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"
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Definition of 'large' 
