big
above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent
How often you will meet it
Rank 428 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 47,013 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.022% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 500 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
adjective
- above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent also: large a large cityset out for the big city
- significant graduation was a big day in his life
- very intense also: bad a bad headachein a big rage
- loud and firm a big voicebig bold piano sounds
- conspicuous in position or importance also: large, prominent a big figure in the movementbig man on campus
- prodigious also: heavy big spenderbig eater
big in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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A fire blazed in the big hall fireplace.
The Abandoned Room · Wadsworth Camp · Chapter 1
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Gloria set the big, warm weight gently down upon its embroidered cushion.
Gloria and Treeless Street · Annie Hamilton Donnell · Chapter 1
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The girl, watching the big chap's unconscious face, knew well what was in his mind.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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The little girl said nothing, for there is no balm for the tragedy of the big fish that gets away.
The Heart of the Hills · John, Jr. Fox · Chapter 1
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He sat with the other new-comers, staring, open-eyed, at nearly six hundred boys, big and small, assembled together in the Speech-room.
The Hill: A Romance of Friendship · Horace Annesley Vachell · Chapter 1