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adjective
- 1. extremely large; enormous: "a huge area"
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The sums of money involved are potentially huge. A huge crowd had gathered in the square. Huge amounts of data were lost. I wasn't a huge fan of the movie. Becoming a mother made a huge difference to me. Anti-social behaviour affects a huge number of people daily. The party was a huge success. This is going to be a huge problem for us.
Huge definition: extraordinarily large in bulk, quantity, or extent. See examples of HUGE used in a sentence.
1 extremely large in size or amount; great in degree synonym enormous, vast a huge crowd He gazed up at her with huge brown eyes. huge debts a huge amount of data The sums of money involved are potentially huge. The party was a huge success. This is going to be a huge problem for us.
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- English
- Middle English
- Middle French
Alternative forms
1. hudge (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English huge, from Old French ahuge (“high, lofty, great, large, huge”), from a hoge (“at height”), from a (“at, to”) + hoge (“a hill, height”), from Frankish *haug, *houg (“height, hill”) or Old Norse haugr (“hill”); both from Proto-Germanic *haugaz (“hill, mound”), from Proto-Indo-European *kowkós (“hill, mound”), from the root Proto-Indo-European *kewk-. Akin to Old High German houg (“mound”) (compare related German Hügel (“hill”)), Old Norse haugr (“mound”), Lithuanian kaũkara...
Pronunciation
1. (UK, US) IPA(key): /hjuːd͡ʒ/, [çu̟ːd͡ʒ] 2. (US) 3. (NYC, some other US dialects) IPA(key): /juːdʒ/ 4. (Norfolk) IPA(key): [hʊudʒ] 5. Rhymes: -uːdʒ
Alternative forms
1. heug, heuge, hoege, hoge, hogge, hogh, hoige, houge, hugge
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French ahuge, a form of ahoge, of unknown origin.
Pronunciation
1. IPA(key): /ˈhiu̯d͡ʒ(ə)/, /ˈhud͡ʒ(ə)/
huge. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English huge /hjuːdʒ/ S1 W2 adjective 1 extremely large in size, amount, or degree SYN enormous a huge dog huge crowds Your room’s huge compared to mine. These shoes make my feet look huge. a huge amount/sum/quantity etc huge sums of money We are only now realizing the huge scale of the problem ...
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