• (RP) IPA: /ˈlɑːd͡ʒ/
• (GA) IPA: /ˈlɑɹd͡ʒ/

large (comparative larger, superlative largest)

1. Of considerable or relatively great size or extent.

   Russia is a large country.   The fruit-fly has large eyes for its body size.   He has a large collection of stamps.

2. (obsolete) Abundant; ample.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 5”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:

     We have yet large day.

3. (archaic) Full in statement; diffuse; profuse.

   • I might be very large upon the importance and advantages of education.

4. (obsolete) Free; unencumbered.

   • Of burdens all he set the Paynims large.

5. (obsolete) Unrestrained by decorum; said of language.
   • 1598–1599 (first performance)​, William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, 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 II, scene iii]:

     Some large jests he will make.

6. (nautical) Crossing the line of a ship's course in a favorable direction; said of the wind when it is abeam, or between the beam and the quarter.

• big, huge, giant, gigantic, enormous, stour, great, mickle, largeish
• See also Thesaurus:large

• small, tiny, minuscule

• French: grand
• German: groß, weit
• Italian: grande
• Portuguese: grande
• Russian: большо́й
• Spanish: grande

large

1. (music, obsolete) An old musical note, equal to two longas, four breves, or eight semibreves.
2. (obsolete) Liberality, generosity.
3. (slang, plural: large) A thousand dollars/pounds.

   Getting a car tricked out like that will cost you 50 large.

4. A large serving of something.

   One small coffee and two larges, please.

large

1. (nautical) Before the wind.

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