Huge
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: /ˈçjuËdÊ’/, /ˈhjuËdÊ’/
- New York IPA: /ˈjuËdÊ’/
Origin
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 haugr ("mound"), Lithuanian kaukaras ("hill"), Old High German hÅh ("high") (whence German hoch), Old English hÄ“ah ("high"). More at high.
Full definition of huge
Adjective
huge
- Very large.The castle was huge.
- 1907, w, The Younger Set Chapter 6, “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, …  !â€
- 1963, Margery Allingham, The China Governess Chapter 1, 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, ….
- 2013-07-20, Out of the gloom, 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.
- (slang) Distinctly interesting, significant, important, likeable, well regarded.our next album is going to be huge!; in our league our coach is huge!