huge

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Extremely large in size or amount.

   They live in a huge house with ten bedrooms.

2. 2
   adj

   Very important, successful, or popular.

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

Common collocations

• huge difference Adjective + noun

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.

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