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From Middle English large, from Old French large, from Latin larga, feminine of largus (“abundant, plentiful, copious, large, much”). Mostly displaced Middle English stoor, stour (“large, great”) (from Old English stōr) and muchel (“large, great”) (from Old English myċel).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑːd͡ʒ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑɹd͡ʒ/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dʒ

large (comparative larger, superlative largest)

1. Of considerable or relatively great size or extent.
   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 2, in The Celebrity:

     We drove back to the office with some concern on my part at the prospect of so large a case. Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.

   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.
   • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

     We have yet large day.

3. (archaic) Full in statement; diffuse; profuse.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Felton

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

4. (obsolete) Free; unencumbered.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Fairfax

     Of burdens all he set the Paynims large.

5. (obsolete) Unrestrained by decorum; said of language.
   • (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare

     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

large (countable and uncountable, plural larges)

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.

• at large

large

1. (nautical) Before the wind.

• large in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• large in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

• Agler, Alger, Elgar, Ragle, ergal, glare, lager, regal

From Old French large, from Latin largus, larga, largum (“abundant, plentiful, copious, large, much”). The feminine is inherited, but for the masculine, Latin largum (the masculine and neuter accusative) developed into Old French larc, which was discarded.

• IPA^(key): /laʁʒ/
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• Homophone: larges
• Hyphenation: large

large (plural larges)

1. wide, broad
2. large
3. generous

large m (plural larges)

1. open sea
2. width

• (open sea): haute mer
• (width): largeur

• Antillean Creole: laj
• Haitian Creole: laj
• Karipúna Creole French: laj
• Louisiana Creole French: laj, larj

• Alger, grêla, régal, régla

• “large” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

largē (comparative largius, superlative largissimē)

1. munificently, generously, liberally.
2. abundantly, copiously.
3. to a great extent.

large

1. vocative masculine singular of largus

• large in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• large in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

From Old French large, from Latin largus (“abundant, plentiful, copious, large, much”).

large m or f

1. (Jersey) wide

large m (plural larges)

1. (Jersey, nautical) open sea, deep sea

   Synonym: plieine mé

• larc (Roman de Renard, "wide")

From Latin largus, larga.

large m (oblique and nominative feminine singular large)

1. generous
2. large; big
3. wide (when used to differentiate between height, width and length)

• French: large
• Norman: large

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (large, supplement)
• large on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub