Link Centre Dictionary

huge

UK/hjuːd͡ʒ/ US/ç(j)u̟ːd͡ʒ/ common informal

adjective

1.

unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope

  • “huge government spending”
  • “huge country estates”
  • “huge popular demand for higher education”
  • “a huge wave”
  • “the Los Angeles aqueduct winds like an immense snake along the base of the mountains”
  • “immense numbers of birds”
  • “at vast (or immense) expense”
  • “the vast reaches of outer space”
  • “the vast accumulation of knowledge...which we call civilization” W.R.Inge
Synonyms
Similar

Origin

From Middle English huge, from Old French ahuge (“high, lofty, great, large, huge”), of unknown origin. One theory derives it from an underlying Old French a hoge (“at height”), from a (“at, to”) + hoge (“a hill, height”), the latter from Frankish *haug or cognate 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-, whence also English high.

Phrases

  • huge if true
  • huge page
  • huge tegu

Related words

Word family

WordNet 2.1 (Princeton University). Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. WordNet 2.1 Copyright Princeton University. All rights reserved. Wiktionary content is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike Licence.