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adjective bigger big′·ger, biggest big′·gest

    1. of great size, extent, or capacity; large
    2. great in amount or quantity
    3. great in force or intensity a big wind
    1. full-grown
    2. elder his big sister
    1. far advanced in pregnancy (with)
    2. filled or swelling (with)
  1. loud
    1. important or outstanding to do big things
    2. very well known; famous
    3. popular; very well liked
  2. boastful; pompous; extravagant big talk
  3. ☆ generous; noble a big heart

Etymology: ME < Gmc *bugja, swollen up, thick (> bug & Norw dial. bugge, big man) < IE base *beu-, *bheu-, to blow up, swell > puck, L bucca, puffed cheek

adverb bigger big′·ger, biggest big′·gest

  1. pompously; boastfully; extravagantly to talk big
  2. impressively
  3. in a broad way; showing imagination think big!

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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