Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb For the most part; mainly.
- adverb On a large scale; amply.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a large manner; to a great extent; copiously; diffusely; amply; liberally; bountifully; abundantly; fully: as, the subject was largely discussed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a large manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
widespread orlarge manner. - adverb For the most part;
mainly orchiefly . - adverb On a large
scale ;amply . - adverb obsolete
Fully , at great length.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb on a large scale
- adverb in large part; mainly or chiefly
Etymologies
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Examples
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Now the term largely refers to identity thieves who go through trash to get personal information like credit-card numbers.
Ask The Technologist 2007
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Pancho Segura, the savvy Ecuadorian who made his name largely on the barnstorming professional circuit, coached Jimmy Connors.
NYT > Home Page By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY 2012
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Last week, the head of the intergovernmental Maine Indian Tribal-State Commission, Paul Bisulca, said he would not serve another term largely because of frustrations over the state's failure to address issues important to the tribes.
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Last week, the head of the intergovernmental Maine Indian Tribal-State Commission, Paul Bisulca, said he would not serve another term largely because of frustrations over the state's failure to address issues important to the tribes.
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"Mnml" (where did the vowel-less spelling originate, anyway?) may have initially been intended to indicate a certain strain of techno that favored staccato, whittled-down sounds and a general refusal of melody or songform, but as a variety of approaches inspired by minimalism coalesced into a series of tropes, and those tropes themselves came to signify "mnml," the term largely became severed from its original, literal meaning, as though through a process of substition.
philip sherburne 2009
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At the core of this discourse is a billion-dollar industry of human smuggling no longer controlled by the "coyote," a term largely reserved for the lone pirate paid by a desperate migrant to navigate the dangerous wasteland between the U.S. and Mexico.
Geri Spieler: Moving Millions : How Coyote Capitalism Fuels Global Immigration 2010
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At the core of this discourse is a billion-dollar industry of human smuggling no longer controlled by the "coyote," a term largely reserved for the lone pirate paid by a desperate migrant to navigate the dangerous wasteland between the U.S. and Mexico.
Geri Spieler: Moving Millions: How Coyote Capitalism Fuels Global Immigration 2010
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Church groups were upset at Beck's use of Christian imagery and Christmas as a way to disseminate what they call his largely hateful message.
James Rucker: Ministers confront Glenn Beck outside his Christmas stage show (Video & Photos) 2009
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International observers confirmed some flaws, but said they were not sufficient to affect the outcome of the vote, which they called largely free and fair.
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South Africa on Tuesday welcomed what it described as the largely peaceful nature of the Zimbabwean parliamentary elections, but reserved final judgment on whether the poll had been free and fair.
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