Definition of large adjective in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
A large thing or person is greater in size than usual or average. The pike lives mainly in large rivers and lakes. In the largest room about a dozen children and seven adults are sitting on the carpet. He was a large man with thick dark hair.
Arbitrarily large, a phrase in mathematics Large cardinal, a property of certain transfinite numbers Large category, a category with a proper class of objects and morphisms (or both) Large diffeomorphism, a diffeomorphism that cannot be continuously connected to the identity diffeomorphism in mathematics and physics Large numbers, numbers significantly larger than those ordinarily used in ...
Synonyms: large, big, great These adjectives mean being notably above the average in size or magnitude: a large sum of money; a big red barn; a great ocean liner.
adj. of more than average size, quantity, degree, etc.; exceeding that which is common to a kind or class; big; great: a large house; in large measure; to a large extent. on a great scale: a large producer of kitchen equipment. of great scope or range; extensive; broad. grand or pompous: a man given to large, bombastic talk.
to live large: to live in a luxurious or extravagant manner; (hence) to be very successful, popular, or wealthy, esp. ostentatiously so. Now chiefly U.S. slang.
Fully; at large. Nautical, before the wind; with the wind free or on the quarter, or in such a direction that studding-sails will draw: as, to go or sail large.