Big: Definition and part of speech

Big

  1. n. Alt. of Bigg
  2. superl. Having largeness of size; of much bulk or magnitude; of great size; large.
  3. superl. Great with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce; — often figuratively.
  4. superl. Having greatness, fullness, importance, inflation, distention, etc., whether in a good or a bad sense; as, a big heart; a big voice; big looks; to look big. As applied to looks, it indicates haughtiness or pride.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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