2. (adj)large, big aboveaverage 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 broadpower and range and scope "taking the large view"; "a large effect"; "a large sympathy"
8. (adj)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"
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