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adjective
  1. 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"
    large  big 
  2. 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"
    big  large  prominent 
  3. 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"
    big  large  magnanimous 
  4. in an advanced stage of pregnancy
    "was big with child"; "was great with child"
    big  enceinte  expectant  gravid  great  large  heavy  with child 
  5. ostentatiously lofty in style
    "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"
    bombastic  declamatory  large  orotund  tumid  turgid 
  6. having broad power and range and scope
    "taking the large view"; "a large effect"; "a large sympathy"
    large 
  7. fairly large or important in effect; influential
    "played a large role in the negotiations"
    large 
adverb
  1. in a boastful manner
    "he talked big all evening"
    boastfully  vauntingly  big  large  boastfully  vauntingly  big  large 
  2. with the wind abaft the beam
    "a ship sailing large"
    large  large 
  3. at a distance, wide of something (as of a mark)
    large  large 
noun
  1. a garment size for a large person
    large 
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