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English Dictionary: huge by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
huge
adj
  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
    Synonym(s): huge, immense, vast, Brobdingnagian
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Huge \Huge\, a. [Compar. {Huger}; superl. {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. [bd]The huge
      confusion.[b8] --Chapman. [bd]A huge filly.[b8] --Jer.
      Taylor. -- {Huge"ly}, adv. -- {Huge"ness}, n.
  
               Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea.   --Shak.
  
      Syn: Enormous; gigantic; colossal; immense; prodigious; vast.
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