LARGE definition: of more than average size, quantity, degree, etc.; exceeding that which is common to a kind or class; big; great. See examples of large used in a sentence.
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
Large refers to something that is bigger than others of its kind in terms of size, scale, amount, or degree. It often implies exceeding the normal or average measurements or standards.
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.