{
  "id": "large.size",
  "term": "large",
  "sense": "size",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 3,
  "arena": "adjective",
  "domain": "size",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "Having more space than a usual thing has.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "big.size",
      "usual.common",
      "space.extent"
    ],
    "interaction": "When something has more space than a typical instance, and that typical size sets a baseline, the perception of excess extent emerges.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "excess extent",
      "comparative largeness",
      "deviation from norm"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Great Wall of China stretches over 21,000 kilometers, far longer than most fortifications.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Jupiter has a diameter of 139,820 km, making it the largest planet in the Solar System.",
      "domain": "astronomy"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2020 Amazon rainforest fires affected over 1.5 million hectares, an area larger than many countries.",
      "domain": "environment"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "big.size",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "small.size",
      "note": "contrasts-with",
      "type": "contrasts-with"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "africa.geography",
    "airport.transport",
    "chicago.city",
    "county.administrative",
    "england.political",
    "half.ratio",
    "huge.size",
    "industrial.economic",
    "lot.quantity",
    "million.numerical",
    "park.place",
    "summary.text",
    "wide.spatial"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "large",
    "larger",
    "largest"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "factual",
      "note": "Added missing foundational concept 'space.extent' as it is essential to understanding spatial magnitude."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-large.size"
}