Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word
huge. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word
huge, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say
huge in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word
huge you have here. The definition of the word
huge will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition of
huge, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
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 *kowkós (“hill, mound”), from the root Proto-Indo-European *kewk-. Akin to Old High German houg (“mound”) (compare related German Hügel (“hill”)), Old Norse haugr (“mound”), Lithuanian kaũkaras (“hill”), Old High German hōh (“high”) (whence German hoch), Old English hēah (“high”). More at high.
Pronunciation
Adjective
huge (comparative huger or more huge, superlative hugest or most huge)
- Very large.
- Synonyms: great; see also Thesaurus:large
1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VI, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:“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, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!”
2013 July 20, “Out of the gloom”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:[Rural 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.
- (informal) Very strong, powerful, or dedicated.
- Synonym: great
Both of my parents are huge supporters of animal rights.
- (informal) Very interesting, significant, or popular.
- Synonym: great
The band's next album is going to be huge.
In our league our coach is huge!
Antonyms
Derived terms
Translations
very large
- Arabic: ضَخْم (ḍaḵm), عِمْلَاق (ʕimlāq), جَبَّار (jabbār), هَائِل (hāʔil)
- Armenian: հսկայական (hy) (hskayakan), վիթխարի (hy) (vitʻxari)
- Assamese: মস্ত (mosto), বৃহৎ (brihot)
- Belarusian: вялі́зны (vjalízny), велічэ́зны (vjeličézny), веліза́рны (vjelizárny), аграма́дны (ahramádny)
- Bulgarian: грама́ден (bg) (gramáden), огро́мен (bg) (ogrómen)
- Catalan: enorme (ca)
- Cherokee: ᎤᎪᏗᏗ (ugodidi)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 巨大的 (zh) (jùdà de), 巨型的 (zh) (jùxíng de)
- Czech: ohromný (cs)
- Danish: enorm, kæmpestor
- Dutch: reusachtig (nl), enorm (nl), gigantisch (nl)
- Esperanto: grandega, giganta, enorma (eo)
- Finnish: valtava (fi)
- French: énorme (fr)
- Galician: enorme (gl), xigante (gl)
- Georgian: უზარმაზარი (uzarmazari), უშველებელი (ušvelebeli), ვეებერთელა (veebertela), ჯაბახანა (ka) (ǯabaxana)
- German: riesig (de)
- Greek: τεράστιος (el) (terástios)
- Ancient: παμμεγέθης (pammegéthēs)
- Hungarian: hatalmas (hu), óriási (hu)
- Icelandic: risastór, gríðarstór
- Ido: giganta (io)
- Irish: anmhór, ollmhór
- Italian: enorme (it), gigante (it)
- Japanese: 巨大な (ja) (きょだいな, kyodai na)
- Khmer: សម្បើម (km) (sɑmbaəm), ធំសម្បើម (thom sɑmbaəm), ចង្គ្រោង (km) (cɑngkroong), អ៊ូង (km) (ʼuung)
- Korean: 거대하다 (ko) (geodaehada), 커다랗다 (ko) (keodarata)
- Latin: ingens, immānis, pergrandis
- Latvian: milzīgs
- Macedonian: огромен (ogromen)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: gigantisk, enorm, diger (no), kjempestor (no)
- Nynorsk: gigantisk, enorm, diger, kjempestor
- Ottoman Turkish: قوجه (koca), ایری (iri)
- Persian: کلان (fa) (kalân), سترگ (fa) (setorg)
- Polish: ogromny (pl), olbrzymi (pl)
- Portuguese: enorme (pt), gigante (pt), gigantesco (pt)
- Rapa Nui: nui nui
- Romanian: uriaș (ro), enorm (ro), imens (ro), gigantic (ro)
- Russian: огро́мный (ru) (ogrómnyj), грома́дный (ru) (gromádnyj), здорове́нный (ru) (zdorovénnyj)
- Scottish Gaelic: an-mhòr
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: о̏гро̄ман
- Roman: ȍgrōman (sh)
- Seri: aapa
- Slovak: ohromný
- Slovene: ogromen (sl)
- Spanish: enorme (es), grandote (es)
- Swedish: jättestor (sv)
- Thai: ใหญ่ (th) (yài), มหึมา (má-hʉ̀-maa), เทิ่ง (tə̂əng), เบ้อเริ่ม (th) (bə̂ə-rə̂m)
- Turkish: kocaman (tr)
- Ukrainian: величе́зний (velyčéznyj), здорове́нний (zdorovénnyj)
- Vietnamese: khổng lồ (vi)
- Walloon: nouzone
- Welsh: anferth (cy), enfawr (cy)
- Yiddish: ריזיק (rizik)
|
Further reading
- “huge”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “huge”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Anagrams
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French ahuge, a form of ahoge, of unknown origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhiu̯d͡ʒ(ə)/, /ˈhud͡ʒ(ə)/
Adjective
huge
- huge, large, enormous
- great, severe, excessive, prominent
- numerous, plentiful
Derived terms
Descendants
References
Adverb
huge
- hugely, greatly
References
Middle French
Noun
huge f (plural huges)
- market stall