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huge

Pronunciation: /hjuːd͡ʒ/

The English word “huge” has 3 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Very large.
  2. Very strong, powerful, or dedicated.
  3. Very interesting, significant, or popular.

Etymology

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…

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