large
- noun
- /lɑrdʒ/
- So just for a size reference, large, medium, small.
I was torn between going for a large or a medium.
- I was torn between going for a large or a medium.
Examples
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For my new dress, I need a size large to ensure a comfortable fit.
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I would have two large straw hat pizzas.
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So it goes small, medium, large, and large.
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You get small, medium, and large medical grade ear tips.
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OK and can I also get a large fry just in case it's nasty?
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You can have short sausages, a large sausage Patty, and some chicken.
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Do you want a large playpen, Nala?
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"Then we'll go to Pizza Joe's and order three larges just for us.
Fiction book (1998) -
All you gotta do is put the mediums with the mediums... and the larges with the larges, all right?
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In this store, the sizes available are small, medium, and large.
Synonyms
A clothing fit between medium and extra large
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Idioms
Compounds
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The lower tube in the body that absorbs water from waste before the waste leaves the body
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When a sample gets larger, its average gets closer to the average of the whole group
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A nearby irregular galaxy visible from the southern sky that orbits the Milky Way
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A theorem that says the average of many independent random results almost certainly equals the true average
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A measure of food energy equal to the heat needed to warm 1 kilogram of water by 1 degree Celsius
A low North American plant that makes red berries people use for sauce and juice
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A yearly garden plant with large white flowers that smell sweet at night
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A North American wild flower with greenish-yellow pouch-shaped flowers and purple marks
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About stocks of big companies worth five billion dollars or more
An herb that smells nice and has large pink flowers often grown in gardens or used for tea
A plant with large green and white leaves that grows along the ground in gardens
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A tree from eastern North America with large leaves that have rough edges and light bark
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An annual plant with large coiled flower spikes that grows in the western United States and is threatened
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An evergreen tree with large glossy leaves and big white fragrant flowers
A plant that lives for several years with broad leaves and small daisy-like flowers
A tree or bush with very large leaves and creamy flowers with purple near their base
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The average of many separate random results becomes almost always close to the true average
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Large as a clothing size simply uses the 'big' meaning of the word, the same root as enlarge and Latin largus meaning 'plenty', so it marks clothes for people who are bigger than average.