Noun: large
| Singular | large |
| Plural | larges |
Sample Sentences
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Getting a car tricked out like that will cost you 50 large.
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"We'll call you anything we want," Dave said. "You owe us eighty-five large, Ace, and what we've got for collateral on that money so far is a shitload of Arm & Hammer baking soda worth about a buck-fifty. We'll call you Hubert J. Motherfucker if we want to." [1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:]
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So send my sister a hundred large, and next time you come down to Jessup it won't be my grill talking at you. My word on that. [2008 January 13, David Simon, “Unconfirmed Reports” (30:16 from the start), in The Wire, season 2, episode 2, spoken by Avon Barksdale:]
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One small coffee and two larges, please.
Nouns inflected like large
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English large, from Old French large, from Latin larga, feminine of largus (“abundant, plentiful, copious, large, much”), of uncertain ultimate origin; see there for more. Along with big, it mostly displaced Middle English stoor and muchel (the latter surviving in much under a different meaning). See: Middle English Nouns '
large', Latin Nouns '
larga'.
Verbs referencing "large"
Spanish Nouns
largo, Polish Nouns
elka.