Meaning

• Of considerable or relatively great size or extent.

  "Russia is a large country.   The fruit-fly has large eyes for its body size.   He has a large collection of stamps."

• Abundant; ample.

• Full in statement; diffuse; profuse.

• Free; unencumbered.

• Unrestrained by decorum; said of language.

• Crossing the line of a ship's course in a favorable direction; said of the wind when it is abeam, or between the beam and the quarter.