Large - English meaning

adjective

Of considerable size or extent.

Usage examples:

Her big hazel eyes

verb

Praise or recommend something highly.

Usage examples:

The record's been on the streets a while now, but it's still worth bigging up

noun

The major league in a professional sport.

Usage examples:

The day he made it to the bigs, he forgot every minor league ballpark he ever played in

adjective

Having a distance larger than usual from side to side; wide.

Usage examples:

A broad staircase

noun

A woman.

Usage examples:

I get drunk, follow the pretty broads, and make a fool of myself

adjective

Very wide

Usage examples:

He flashed a broad grin at us., the magazine covers a broad range of subjects., he explained it in …

adjective

Extremely large or great.

Usage examples:

A colossal amount of mail

adjective

Extremely large

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In the centre of the hall stood a colossal wooden statue, decorated in ivory and gold., they were a…

adjective

Including or dealing with all or nearly all elements or aspects of something.

Usage examples:

A comprehensive list of sources

noun

A comprehensive school.

Usage examples:

He trained as an accountant after leaving the local comprehensive

adjective

Including everything that is necessary; complete

Usage examples:

They put forward comprehensive legislation to revise the rules for financing political campaigns.

adjective

Relating to the universe or cosmos, especially as distinct from the earth.

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Cosmic matter

adjective

Of or relating to the cosmos rather than to the earth alone

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Cosmic dust/rays, a disaster of cosmic proportions

adjective

Relating to the universe and the natural processes that happen in it

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Cosmic dust/radiation

adjective

Very large in size, quantity, or extent.

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Enormous sums of money

adjective

Extremely large or great

Usage examples:

He ate an enormous helping of pasta., the wealthy will get enormous tax cuts under the proposal.

adjective

Extremely large

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An enormous car/house, he earns an enormous salary., i was absolutely enormous when i was pregnant.…

adjective

Including or considering all elements or aspects; fully comprehensive.

Usage examples:

The guide outlines every bus route in exhaustive detail

adjective

Detailed and complete

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An exhaustive study of the tax law

adjective

Complete and including everything

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An exhaustive study/report

adjective

Covering or affecting a large area.

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An extensive garden

adjective

Covering a large area; having a great range

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Extensive grounds a school with extensive grounds, extensive repairs extensive repairs to the motor…

adjective

Likely to influence many people or things

Usage examples:

The effects of the riots will be far-reaching.

adjective

Enormous.

Usage examples:

A gargantuan appetite

adjective

Very large

Usage examples:

He has a gargantuan ego.

noun

An imaginary or mythical being of human form but superhuman size.

Usage examples:

Along the north-west coast of britain, megalithic sites were commonly associated with mythical gian…

adjective

Of very great size or force; gigantic.

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Giant multinational corporations

noun

A person, either real or imaginary, who is extremely large and strong, or a very large or powerful organization

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He was a giant of a man, over six and a half feet tall., the merger makes them a giant in the publi…

adjective

Of very great size or extent; huge or enormous.

Usage examples:

A gigantic concrete tower

adjective

Extremely large

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A gigantic shopping center

adjective

Relating to the whole world; worldwide.

Usage examples:

The downturn in the global economy

adjective

Relating to the whole world

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We hope an era of peace and global cooperation has begun., the company is trying to compete globally.

adjective

Including or affecting the whole world

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The president argued that technology and his energy plans "will help us to confront the serious cha…

adjective

Considerable in size or quantity.

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A goodly number of our countrymen

adjective

Great or large

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The audience was of a goodly size.

adjective

Of an extent, amount, or intensity considerably above average.

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The article was of great interest

noun

An important or distinguished person.

Usage examples:

The beatles, bob dylan, all the greats

adverb

Another term for literae humaniores.

adjective

Extremely large; enormous.

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A huge area

adjective

Extremely large in size or amount

Usage examples:

They live in a huge house., the costs involved in building a spacecraft are huge., a huge number of…

adjective

Extremely large or great, especially in scale or degree.

Usage examples:

The cost of restoration has been immense

adjective

Extremely large; great in size or degree

Usage examples:

He inherited an immense fortune., did you see that guy? he was immense!, country music is immensely…

adjective

Extremely large in size or degree

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Immense wealth/value, immense amount they spent an immense amount of time getting the engine into p…

adjective

Involving many people or things, or happening over a large area

Usage examples:

We must improve our response to large-scale natural disasters.

adjective

Involving a lot of people, things, or activity, or happening over a large area

Usage examples:

They have announced large-scale changes in the organization., after the development phase, the comp…

noun

A large scale involving general or overall structures or processes rather than details.

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Apart from the deepest parts of some oceans, most of the world is mapped and explored, at least on …

adjective

On or characterized by a large scale involving general or overall structures or processes rather than details.

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Microscale studies focus on individuals and small groups and macroscale studies focus on cultures a…

noun

A large extinct elephant of the pleistocene epoch, typically hairy with a sloping back and long curved tusks.

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Woolly mammoths, which are now extinct, lived from the pleistocene to the early holocene period fro…

adjective

Huge.

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A mammoth corporation

adjective

Extremely large

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Building the dam was a mammoth construction project.

adjective

Large and heavy or solid.

Usage examples:

A massive rampart of stone

noun

A group of young people from a particular area with a common interest in dance music.

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The bristol massive

adjective

Very large in size, amount, or degree

Usage examples:

A massive building, he took massive doses of vitamin c., she died of a massive heart attack.

adjective

Great in importance, extent, or size.

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It's been a monumental effort

adjective

Very big or very great

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Rebuilding the bridge proved to be a monumental job.

adjective

Remarkably or impressively great in extent, size, or degree.

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The stove consumed a prodigious amount of fuel

adjective

Extremely great in ability, amount, or strength

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Americans are the world’s most prodigious consumers., a prodigiously gifted artist

adjective

Fairly large.

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A sizeable proportion of the population

adjective

Large

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A sizeable amount/area/house

adjective

Extremely impressive.

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The most stupendous views

adjective

Very great in amount or size

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He ran up stupendous debts.

adjective

Of considerable importance, size, or worth.

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A substantial amount of cash

adjective

Large in size, value, or importance

Usage examples:

He took a substantial amount of money., they do a substantial portion of their business by phone.

adjective

Large in size, value, or importance

Usage examples:

Substantial benefits/costs/investment, a substantial amount/number/portion of sth banks make a subs…

adjective

Extending or performed in a long, continuous curve.

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Sweeping, desolate moorlands

noun

Dirt or refuse collected by sweeping.

Usage examples:

The sweepings from the house

verb

Clean (an area) by brushing away dirt or litter.

Usage examples:

I've swept the floor

adjective

Very great in amount, scale, or intensity.

Usage examples:

Penny put in a tremendous amount of time

adjective

Great in amount, size, or degree; extremely large

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She is under tremendous pressure at work., a tremendous book/concert/athlete

adjective

Of very great extent or quantity; immense.

Usage examples:

A vast plain full of orchards

noun

An immense space.

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And up from the vast a murmuring passed as from a wood of pines.

noun

The business of selling of goods in large quantities and at low prices, typically to be sold on by retailers at a profit.

Usage examples:

If you want to sell large expensive pieces then wholesale is probably not the way to go

adverb

Being sold to retailers in large quantities and at low prices.

Usage examples:

Bottles from this region sell wholesale at about £72 a case

adjective

Done on a large scale; extensive.

Usage examples:

The wholesale destruction of these animals by poachers

adjective

Of great or more than average width.

Usage examples:

A wide road

adverb

To the full extent.

Usage examples:

His eyes opened wide

noun

A ball that is judged to be too wide of the stumps for the batsman to play, for which an extra is awarded to the batting side.

adjective

Covering many subjects

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A wide-ranging discussion