enlargement
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɪnˈlɑː(ɹ)d͡ʒmənt/
enlargement
- The act of making something larger.
- Rick was ashamed about the size of his penis, so he had a penis enlargement.
- (figuratively) A making more obvious or serious; exacerbation.
- 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd, 2005 Barnes & Noble Classics publication of 1912 Wessex edition, p.337
- Bathsheba underwent the enlargement of her husband's absence from hours to days with a slight feeling of surprise, and a slight feeling of relief; yet neither sensation rose at any time far above the level commonly designated as indifference.
- 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd, 2005 Barnes & Noble Classics publication of 1912 Wessex edition, p.337
- An image, particularly a photograph, that has been enlarged.
- (obsolete) Freedom from confinement; liberty.
- c. 1595–1596, William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act III, scene i]:
- Go, tenderness of years; take this key, give enlargement to the swain, bring him festinately hither.
- Diffuseness of speech or writing; a speaking at length.
- 1897, Peter Joseph Cooke, Forensic Eloquence (page 40)
- Briefly, a discourse generally consists in some prefatory remarks which pave the way as it were for the enlargement upon which a speaker usually enters when he speaks to any purpose.
- 1897, Peter Joseph Cooke, Forensic Eloquence (page 40)
- French: élargissement, agrandissement
- German: Vergrößerung, Erweiterung
- Portuguese: aumento, ampliação
- Russian: увеличе́ние
- Spanish: agrandamiento
- Spanish: ampliación
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