huge

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope

   huge government spending

2. 2
   adj

   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—!”

3. 3
   adj

   Very strong, powerful, or dedicated.

   Both of my parents are huge supporters of animal rights.

4. 4
   adj

   Very interesting, significant, or popular.

   The band's next album is going to be huge.

Etymology

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.