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Webster 1913 Edition

Huge

Huge

,
Adj.
[
Com
par.
Huger
;
sup
erl.
Hugest
.]
[OE.
huge
,
hoge
, OF.
ahuge
,
ahoge
.]
Very large; enormous; immense; excessive; – used esp. of material bulk, but often of qualities, extent, etc.;
as, a
huge
ox; a
huge
space; a
huge
difference.
“The huge confusion.”
Chapman.
“A huge filly.”
Jer. Taylor.
–
Huge′ly
,
adv.
–
Huge′ness
,
Noun.
Syn. – Enormous; gigantic; colossal; immense; prodigious; vast.

Webster 1828 Edition

Huge

HUGE

, a.
1.
Very large or great; enormous; applied to bulk or size; as a huge mountain; a huge ox.
2.
It is improperly applied to space and distance, in the sense of great, vast, immense; as a hugh space; a hugh difference. This is inelegant, or rather vulgar.
3.
In colloquial language, very great; enormous; as a huge feeder.

Definition 2024

huge

huge

English

Adjective

huge ‎(comparative huger, superlative hugest)

  1. Very large.
    The castle was huge.‎
    • 1907, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “chapter VI”, in The Younger Set (Project Gutenberg; EBook #14852), New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 4241346:
      “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, […] the chlorotic squatters on huge yachts, […] the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!”
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess:
      The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, […].
    • 2013 July 20, “Out of the gloom”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
      [Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.
  2. (slang) Distinctly interesting, significant, important, likeable, well regarded.
    Our next album is going to be huge!  In our league our coach is huge!‎

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Middle French

Noun

huge f (plural huges)

  1. market stall

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 *koukos ‎(“hill, mound”). Akin to Old High German houg ‎(“mound”) (whence German Hügel ‎(“hill”)), Icelandic haugur ‎(“mound”), Lithuanian kaũkaras ‎(“hill”), Old High German hōh ‎(“high”) (whence German hoch), Old English hēah ‎(“high”). More at high.

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /hjuːdʒ/, [çju̟ːd͡ʒ]
    • (NYC, some other US dialects) IPA(key): /juːdʒ/

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