Collocations for large - adj.
VERBS
be
appear, feel, look, seem
Some of the clothes looked very large.
appear, feel, look, seem
Some of the clothes looked very large.
become,
get,
grow
By this time his debt had become extremely large.
The plant had grown quite large.
By this time his debt had become extremely large.
The plant had grown quite large.
remain
loom
The issue looms large in political campaigns nationwide.
loom
The issue looms large in political campaigns nationwide.
ADVERB
extremely,
fairly,
very,
etc.
Isn't that sweater rather large?
Isn't that sweater rather large?
especially,
exceedingly,
exceptionally,
incredibly,
particularly
comparatively, moderately, reasonably, relatively
enough, sufficiently
Are you sure the hall will be large enough?
comparatively, moderately, reasonably, relatively
enough, sufficiently
Are you sure the hall will be large enough?
correspondingly,
equally,
similarly
a huge chair behind an equally large desk
a huge chair behind an equally large desk
increasingly
the increasingly large numbers of senior citizens
the increasingly large numbers of senior citizens
infinitely
The universe is infinitely large.
The universe is infinitely large.
abnormally,
disproportionately,
impossibly,
overly,
ridiculously,
surprisingly,
unexpectedly,
unusually
His eyes were abnormally large.
Our house was not overly large.
His eyes were abnormally large.
Our house was not overly large.
Large is used with these nouns:
accumulation, advance, airline, airport, allowance, amount, apartment, appetite, area, armchair, army, array, assortment, attendance, audience, backlog, bank, batch, bathroom, beak, bedroom, belly, bequest, bet, bill, birthmark, bit, bloc, block, body, bomb, bonus, bosom, bouquet, bowel, brandy, breakfast, breast, broadcaster, budget, building, bulk, bump, bunch, bundle, bureaucracy, business, campus, capacity, casserole, cast, catch, category, cave, chain, chamber, cheque, chunk, circulation, city, claim, class, claw, client, clientele, closet, clump, cluster, coke, collection, colony, community, company, complement, complex, concentration, conglomerate, congregation, construction, consumer, contingent, contract, contribution, contributor, corporation, crack, crater, creditor, cross section, crowd, crystal, cupboard, customer, cut, database, debt, decline, decrease, deficit, degree, delegation, delivery, demonstration, dent, deposit, desk, diameter, difference, dimension, dining room, discount, discrepancy, distance, distributor, dividend, donation, donor, dose, dowry, driveway, drop, ear, earthquake, ego, element, empire, employer, engine, enrolment, enterprise, envelope, estate, excess, exhibition, expanse, expenditure, explosion, exporter, eye, facility, factory, fall, family, farm, farmer, fee, figure, file, fine, fireplace, firm, fist, fleet, flow, flower, fluctuation, following, force, format, fortune, fraction, frame, fry, fund, funeral, galaxy, gap, garden, gate, gathering, gin, grain, grant, grin, ground, group, gulp, handbag, handful, harvest, haul, heap, helping, herd, hoard, hole, hotel, house, incision, income, increase, influx, inheritance, institution, intestine, investment, investor, kitchen, lake, lender, letter, library, loaf, loan, lorry, lot, lump, machine, majority, male, mall, mammal, manor, mansion, manufacturer, margin, market, marquee, merger, military, minority, monster, moon, motor, mound, mountain, mouth, mouthful, mug, multinational, nation, network, nose, number, object, office, opening, operator, orchestra, order, organization, outbreak, outfit, outlay, output, overdraft, painting, pan, parcel, part, penis, percentage, piece, pile, pizza, pocket, pond, pool, population, portion, print, procession, producer, profit, project, proportion, publisher, purchase, quantity, rally, range, reception, reconstruction, reduction, region, repertoire, representation, reproduction, reserve, reservoir, resort, resource, restaurant, retailer, reward, rise, river, rock, role, room, salary, sample, saucepan, scale, scar, screen, section, selection, set, settlement, shape, share, shareholder, sheet, shipment, shopping centre, shrub, sieve, sip, size, skillet, slab, slice, snake, source, space, specimen, spider, splash, stake, statue, step, stock, stockbroker, stomach, store, stretch, studio, subsidy, sum, supply, surplus, swig, table, tanker, tear, theatre, tip, topic, town, trader, tree, trial, truck, turnout, turnover, undertaking, union, unit, user, utility, valley, variety, village, vocabulary, void, volume, weight, whisky, window, workforce, yard
accumulation, advance, airline, airport, allowance, amount, apartment, appetite, area, armchair, army, array, assortment, attendance, audience, backlog, bank, batch, bathroom, beak, bedroom, belly, bequest, bet, bill, birthmark, bit, bloc, block, body, bomb, bonus, bosom, bouquet, bowel, brandy, breakfast, breast, broadcaster, budget, building, bulk, bump, bunch, bundle, bureaucracy, business, campus, capacity, casserole, cast, catch, category, cave, chain, chamber, cheque, chunk, circulation, city, claim, class, claw, client, clientele, closet, clump, cluster, coke, collection, colony, community, company, complement, complex, concentration, conglomerate, congregation, construction, consumer, contingent, contract, contribution, contributor, corporation, crack, crater, creditor, cross section, crowd, crystal, cupboard, customer, cut, database, debt, decline, decrease, deficit, degree, delegation, delivery, demonstration, dent, deposit, desk, diameter, difference, dimension, dining room, discount, discrepancy, distance, distributor, dividend, donation, donor, dose, dowry, driveway, drop, ear, earthquake, ego, element, empire, employer, engine, enrolment, enterprise, envelope, estate, excess, exhibition, expanse, expenditure, explosion, exporter, eye, facility, factory, fall, family, farm, farmer, fee, figure, file, fine, fireplace, firm, fist, fleet, flow, flower, fluctuation, following, force, format, fortune, fraction, frame, fry, fund, funeral, galaxy, gap, garden, gate, gathering, gin, grain, grant, grin, ground, group, gulp, handbag, handful, harvest, haul, heap, helping, herd, hoard, hole, hotel, house, incision, income, increase, influx, inheritance, institution, intestine, investment, investor, kitchen, lake, lender, letter, library, loaf, loan, lorry, lot, lump, machine, majority, male, mall, mammal, manor, mansion, manufacturer, margin, market, marquee, merger, military, minority, monster, moon, motor, mound, mountain, mouth, mouthful, mug, multinational, nation, network, nose, number, object, office, opening, operator, orchestra, order, organization, outbreak, outfit, outlay, output, overdraft, painting, pan, parcel, part, penis, percentage, piece, pile, pizza, pocket, pond, pool, population, portion, print, procession, producer, profit, project, proportion, publisher, purchase, quantity, rally, range, reception, reconstruction, reduction, region, repertoire, representation, reproduction, reserve, reservoir, resort, resource, restaurant, retailer, reward, rise, river, rock, role, room, salary, sample, saucepan, scale, scar, screen, section, selection, set, settlement, shape, share, shareholder, sheet, shipment, shopping centre, shrub, sieve, sip, size, skillet, slab, slice, snake, source, space, specimen, spider, splash, stake, statue, step, stock, stockbroker, stomach, store, stretch, studio, subsidy, sum, supply, surplus, swig, table, tanker, tear, theatre, tip, topic, town, trader, tree, trial, truck, turnout, turnover, undertaking, union, unit, user, utility, valley, variety, village, vocabulary, void, volume, weight, whisky, window, workforce, yard