Dictionary

large-scale en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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Etymology

Etymology tree English large Proto-Indo-European *skend-der. Proto-Indo-European *(s)kn̥d-sleh₂ Proto-Italic *skand-slā Latin scālabor. Middle English scale English scale English large-scale From large + scale.

Meanings

1. Large in amount, scope or extent.
   • Moreover, in view of the lamentable present indecision of the Government in regard to electrification, the large-scale building of diesel power may prove to have been a farseeing move after all. 1961 February 14, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 86:
   • The last remaining mammoth populations lived on Wrangel Island, a small island in the Arctic Ocean off the coast of Siberia, where large-scale movement would not have been possible. 2021 August 12, Katie Hunt, “Mammoths were the original ‘ice road truckers,’ traveling vast distances across the Arctic”, in CNN:
   • The production of railway timetables is a large-scale and expensive operation. 1964 March 14, “Timetable confusion”, in Modern Railways, page 145:
2. Of a map or image, drawn large so as to show detail.

Forms

Antonyms

small-scale

Deriveds

very-large-scale · ultra-large-scale

Translations (45)

de großangelegt (drawn large so as to show detail) · gl a gran escala (large in amount, scope or extent) · pl na dużą skalę (large in amount, scope or extent) · de groß angelegt (large in amount, scope or extent) · es a gran escala (large in amount, scope or extent) · bg обширен (large in amount, scope or extent) · hu nagyarányú (large in amount, scope or extent) · fr à grande échelle (drawn large so as to show detail) · fi suurimittakaavainen (drawn large so as to show detail) · ca a gran escala (large in amount, scope or extent) · az irimiqyaslı (large in amount, scope or extent) · fi laaja (large in amount, scope or extent) · ka მსხვილი (large in amount, scope or extent) · fr à grande échelle (large in amount, scope or extent) · pt em larga escala (large in amount, scope or extent) · pl wielki (drawn large so as to show detail) · ka ფართომასშტაბიანი (large in amount, scope or extent) · it su larga scala (large in amount, scope or extent) · pl duży (drawn large so as to show detail) · de großangelegt (large in amount, scope or extent) · ru крупномасшта́бный (large in amount, scope or extent) · uk великомасшта́бний (drawn large so as to show detail) · ka ვრცელი (large in amount, scope or extent) · ru в кру́пном масшта́бе (drawn large so as to show detail) · ka მსხვილმასშტაბიანი (large in amount, scope or extent) · az genişmiqyaslı (large in amount, scope or extent) · nl grootschalig (drawn large so as to show detail) · ru крупномасшта́бный (drawn large so as to show detail) · gd mòr-sgèile (large in amount, scope or extent) · cmn 大型 (large in amount, scope or extent) · ja 大型の (large in amount, scope or extent) · eo grandskala (large in amount, scope or extent) · ja 大規模の (large in amount, scope or extent) · uk великомасшта́бний (large in amount, scope or extent) · fi mittava (large in amount, scope or extent) · nl grootschalig (large in amount, scope or extent) · de groß angelegt (drawn large so as to show detail) · bg в голям мащаб (drawn large so as to show detail) · nb storskala (large in amount, scope or extent) · hu nagymérvű (large in amount, scope or extent) · ka ფართო (large in amount, scope or extent) · ga mórscála (drawn large so as to show detail) · pt em grande escala (large in amount, scope or extent) · nn storskala (large in amount, scope or extent) · gd mòr-sgèile (drawn large so as to show detail)