huge
adjectifcourant dans les dialogues
- Royaume-Uni//hjuːd͡ʒ//
- Royaume-Uni/[ç(j)u̟ːd͡ʒ]/
- Royaume-Uni//hjʉwd͡ʒ//
- Royaume-Uni/[ç(j)ʉwd͡ʒ]/
- États-Unis//hjud͡ʒ//
Very large.
adjectif
- 1
Very large.
“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—!”
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,[…].
[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.
- 2
familierVery strong, powerful, or dedicated.
Both of my parents are huge supporters of animal rights.
- 3
familierVery interesting, significant, or popular.
The band's next album is going to be huge.
In our league our coach is huge!
Étymologie
From Middle English huge, from Old French ahuge (“high, lofty, great, large, huge”), of unknown origin. One theory derives it from an underlying Old French a hoge (“at height”), from a (“at, to”) + hoge (“a hill, height”), the latter from Frankish *haug or cognate 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-, whence also English high.
Formes
- comparatif
- huger, more huge
- superlatif
- hugest, most huge