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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While AI-linked bonds haven’t performed well lately amid concern about the large supply of them, Google should have more room than its rivals to keep up spending.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
There are also flies — big blue and green flies with large, bright red heads — that residents are constantly swatting at outside their doors and windows.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
Today, large guitarfish have almost vanished, he said, blaming pollution, changing fishing practices and climate change.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
Since taking the helm of the tech giant, he has made big structural moves and placed large bets on technologies including quantum computing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
A door in the center let us into a large room where two hundred or more women bent over knitting needles.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Distillation is a technique in which a smaller AI model is trained to mimic the outputs of a larger, more capable one.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
It is not the first wind farm to be upgraded this way - the 26 turbines at Hagshaw Hill in South Lanarkshire were repowered last year and replaced with 14 larger ones.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
They planned to stay in the three-bedroom home for five years or so, and then move to a larger one.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
Even though El Niño brings hotter and drier conditions to the north, researchers haven’t conclusively found it leads to larger or more frequent fires.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
It was much larger than it appeared on the outside.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Prologis—the world’s largest owner of industrial real estate—has made a 9.5% increase over its initial proposal to take over its smaller U.K. rival, ruling out further rises.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
But he said the sector is waiting for more details while questions remain about the exclusion of the largest live music venues.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
Over the next 48 hours, the entire peloton was subjected to surprise tests in one of the largest sweeps in the recent history of the Tour de France.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
IBM shares fell 25% in a single day last week after that warning, in what marked their largest one-day decline on record.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
The largest picture, though, is an image of Grandma as I knew her before she passed away: In the headshot, she’s facing the camera with warm eyes and a slight smile.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
