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• a large area/family/house/car/appetite
• a large number of people
• very large sums of money
• he's a very large child for his age.

large

1. big in size or quantity
• a large area/family/house/car/appetite
• a large number of people
• very large sums of money
• He's a very large child for his age.
• A large proportion of old people live alone.
• Women usually do the larger share of the housework.
• Brazil is the world's largest producer of coffee.
• Who's the rather large (= fat) lady in the hat?
2. used to describe one size in a range of sizes of clothes, food, products used in the house, etc.
• small, medium, large
3. wide in range and involving many things
• a large and complex issue
• Some drugs are being used on a much larger scale than previously.
• If we look at the larger picture of the situation, the differences seem slight.
• a large amount of
• a large number of
• a large quantity of
• a great deal of
• in great detail
• a person of great age.
4. as a whole; in general
• the opinion of the public at large
5. not captured; free
• Her killer is still at large.
6. used when you are saying something that is generally, but not completely, true
• By and large, I enjoyed my time at school.
7. to enjoy yourself, especially by dancing and drinking alcohol
8. to a great extent
• Their success is due in large part to their determination.
9. used to show surprise at seeing somebody/something
• I hadn’t seen her for fifteen years and then there she was, (as) large as life.
10. looking or behaving in a way that is more interesting or exciting than other people, and so is likely to attract attention
• synonym flamboyant
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• He's a larger than life character.
11. to be worrying or frightening and seem hard to avoid
• The prospect of war loomed large.
12. easy to see or understand
• Mistrust was writ large on her face.
13. being a large or obvious example of the thing mentioned
• This is deception writ large.

Extra Examples

• By this time his debt had become extremely large.
• His eyes were abnormally large.
• Isn’t that jumper rather large?
• Our house was not overly large.
• Some of the clothes looked very large.
• The issue looms large in political campaigns nationwide.
• The plant had grown quite large.
• The universe is infinitely large.
• a huge chair behind an equally large desk
• the increasingly large numbers of senior citizens
• Brazil is the world’s largest producer of coffee.
• I grew up in a large family.
• It’s better value if you buy a large box.
• There were some very large sums of money involved.
• Who is the rather large lady in the hat?
• Would you like small, medium or large?

Word Origin

• Middle English (in the sense ‘liberal in giving, lavish, ample in quantity’): via Old French from Latin larga, feminine of largus ‘copious’.