Meaning of large in English

large
adjective
uk
/lɑːdʒ/ us
/lɑːrdʒ/
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big in size or amount:
a large house
the world's largest computer manufacturer
We need a larger car.
We didn't expect such a large number of people to attend the concert.
We've made good progress, but there's still a large amount of work to be done.
There was a larger-than-expected fall in unemployment last month.
Researchers have just completed the largest-ever survey of criminal behaviour in the UK
The population faces starvation this winter without large-scale emergency food aid.
Synonyms
astronomical (LARGE) informal
big (LARGE)
colossal
elephantine formal
enormous
gargantuan
giant
gigantic
ginormous informal
great (BIG)
hefty
huge
immense
jumbo
mahoosive UK informal
mammoth
massive
sizeable mainlyUK
stupendous
tremendous
vast
walloping informal humorous
whopping informal
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having a body that is bigger than average
  • largeThey sell clothes for large men.
  • bigHe is quite big for his age.
  • well builtHe's muscular and well built.
  • heavysetThe victim was a heavyset, bearded male in his 30s.
  • thicksetMax is thickset and heavy, like a rugby player.
  • burlyHe got out of the way for the burly biker.
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greater than the average size or amount
  • bigThey live in a big house in the country.
  • largeA large number of people were crowded into the room.
  • greatThe party was a great success.
  • enormousThey bought an enormous house in the suburbs.
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Big and quite big
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Idioms

by and large
(as) large as life
larger than life
large
verb
uk
/lɑːdʒ/ us
/lɑːrdʒ/
 larging it UK informal
enjoying yourself very much by dancing and drinking alcohol:
We were larging it at a club last night.
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Paying money
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(Definition of large from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

large | American Dictionary

large
adjective [ -er/-est only ]
us
/lɑrdʒ/
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of more than a typical or average size or amount:
They have a large house in the suburbs.
This apartment is much larger than our last one.
It was the largest bug I had ever seen.
This computer stores large amounts of data.
I’d like a large soda.
 in large part (also in large measure)
If something is true in large part or in large measure, it is true to a great degree:
The rebirth of interest in cycling in this country was, in large part, a result of Lance Armstrong's success.
Large (abbreviation L) is a size of clothing or other product that is bigger than average:
The shirt is available in small, medium, and large (sizes).

Idioms

at large
by and large
larger than life
(Definition of large from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of large

large
None of the communities is larger than 2000 persons.
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Also, the results of this study apply only to large individuals.
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One of the medium fragments is connected to the large fragment.
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The number of statives includes a large number of tokens of be.
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This reuse permits the effort required to develop sets of transformations to be amortized over a large number of derivations.
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In large new housing estates alone, some 100,000 new dwellings a year are planned to be built.
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The plans sometimes symbolize more than they explain, especially where large black surfaces representing the earth graphically detract from our reading of space and form.
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Both are large-scale genres, often - though not necessarily - showcasing either the orchestra as a whole or individual players or sections within it.
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While there are no particular names by category, crickets are divided into two groups: large, ordinary crickets and non-ordinary.
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The abolitionist was, constitutionally speaking, neither officer nor prisoner and as a consequence may stand for the ordinary citizen - "society," the people at large.
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Physically, this is because, on average, the mean shear causes larger separation between particle pairs so that larger eddies disperse them.
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Because a significant portion of the labour force was becoming redundant, pauperization loomed large.
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Nonetheless, ratios of post-harvest weights to pre-harvest weights reinforced the view that weight fluctuations were not uniformly large.
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This is a large professional group in primary care and was not adequately represented in the questionnaire survey.
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Each point represents the mean values of these 2 variables measured on 2 large hooks from each of 10 protoscoleces from a single isolate.
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