large
Usage
What are other ways to say large?
In reference to the size and extent of concrete objects, large is somewhat formal, great is highly formal and even poetic, suggesting also that the object is notable or imposing, and big is the most general and most colloquial word: a large tree; a great oak; a big tree; a large field; great plains; a big field. When the reference is to degree or a quality, great is the usual word: great beauty; great mistake; great surprise; although big sometimes alternates with it in colloquial style: a big mistake; a big surprise; large is usually not used in reference to degree, but may be used in a quantitative reference: a large number (great number).
Example Sentences
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LAUSD’s problems mirror those of other large urban school districts: unsustainable spending, particularly on administration and employee benefits, combined with shrinking enrollment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
Officials said a large search and rescue operation was launched after the incident near New York Harbour on Saturday night.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
Participants navigated through a large virtual meadow and traveled toward a series of trees.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
Profit growth has also been unusually high, in large part due to one-off occurrences.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 9, 2026
There was a small potato cellar beneath the kitchen floor: they enlarged the trapdoor letting into it, put a large rug on top of it, and moved the kitchen table to stand on this spot.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
It found that, in some fire-prone ecosystems, protected areas experience larger burned areas and higher fire severity than comparable unprotected forests, largely associated with greater fuel loads and reduced accessibility.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
At 90,000 square feet, the proposed complex would be larger than an average Kohl’s department store, which the company says occupies roughly 80,000 square feet.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
Compared with their performance after receiving the placebo, they made substantially larger errors when attempting to reach their destinations.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
“I’ve been doing it ever since. I just have a slightly larger platform from which to do it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
No, it hadn’t been a trick; that lion was massive, much larger than anything that existed outside the world of film.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
The attorneys general of California, Colorado, Kentucky, and New Jersey allege the largest social media network in the world deliberately made Instagram and Facebook addictive for children.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
China remains Zambia's largest bilateral creditor, with about US$4.5 billion owed to Chinese lenders, equivalent to roughly 15 percent of total public and publicly guaranteed debt, according to the IMF.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
Strong earnings reports from the U.S.’s largest companies are powering major indexes to new highs, easing some concerns that the recent rally is overly dependent on a handful of artificial-intelligence stocks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
More than 90% of the sun will be obscured across Ireland during the early evening on Wednesday – the largest solar eclipse visible from the island until September 2090.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
The bright sky darkens as if the color is being sucked up by the world’s largest vacuum.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
