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Results for: "big"

Translating from English to Greek

Translations:

big — of a great size
→ μεγάλος (megálos)
big — adult, grown-up
→ μεγάλος (megálos)

More translations:

big
→ μεγάλος σε μέγεθος
big
→ σπουδαίος

Additional Definitions (WordNet):


ADJECTIVE (13)

1. above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent;
- Example: "a large city"
- Example: "set out for the big city"
- Example: "a large sum"
- Example: "a big (or large) barn"
- Example: "a large family"
- Example: "big businesses"
- Example: "a big expenditure"
- Example: "a large number of newspapers"
- Example: "a big group of scientists"
- Example: "large areas of the world"
[syn: large, big]

2. significant;
- Example: "graduation was a big day in his life"

3. very intense;
- Example: "a bad headache"
- Example: "in a big rage"
- Example: "had a big (or bad) shock"
- Example: "a bad earthquake"
- Example: "a bad storm"
[syn: bad, big]

4. loud and firm;
- Example: "a big voice"
- Example: "big bold piano sounds"

5. conspicuous in position or importance;
- Example: "a big figure in the movement"
- Example: "big man on campus"
- Example: "he's very large in financial circles"
- Example: "a prominent citizen"
[syn: big, large, prominent]

6. prodigious;
- Example: "big spender"
- Example: "big eater"
- Example: "heavy investor"
[syn: big(a), heavy(a)]

7. exhibiting self-importance;
- Example: "big talk"
[syn: boastful, braggart(a), bragging(a), braggy, big, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandizing, self-aggrandising]

8. feeling self-importance;
- Example: "too big for his britches"
- Example: "had a swelled head"
- Example: "he was swelled with pride"
[syn: big, swelled, vainglorious]

9. (of animals) fully developed;
- Example: "an adult animal"
- Example: "a grown woman"
[syn: adult, big, full-grown, fully grown, grown, grownup]

10. marked by intense physical force;
- Example: "a big wind"

11. generous and understanding and tolerant;
- Example: "a heart big enough to hold no grudges"
- Example: "that's very big of you to be so forgiving"
- Example: "a large and generous spirit"
- Example: "a large heart"
- Example: "magnanimous toward his enemies"
[syn: big, large, magnanimous]

12. given or giving freely;
- Example: "was a big tipper"
- Example: "the bounteous goodness of God"
- Example: "bountiful compliments"
- Example: "a freehanded host"
- Example: "a handsome allowance"
- Example: "Saturday's child is loving and giving"
- Example: "a liberal backer of the arts"
- Example: "a munificent gift"
- Example: "her fond and openhanded grandfather"
[syn: big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, handsome, giving, liberal, openhanded]

13. in an advanced stage of pregnancy;
- Example: "was big with child"
- Example: "was great with child"
[syn: big(p), enceinte, expectant, gravid, great(p), large(p), heavy(p), with child(p)]


ADVERB (4)

1. extremely well;
- Example: "his performance went over big"

2. in a boastful manner;
- Example: "he talked big all evening"
[syn: boastfully, vauntingly, big, large]

3. on a grand scale;
- Example: "think big"

4. in a major way;
- Example: "the play failed big at the box office"