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Larger has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Adjective

Definitions
Adjective
1

large or big relative to something else

"The city's new park is larger than all the others combined, stretching across three neighboring blocks."

2

comparative form of large: more large

"The new apartment has a larger living room than our old house."

In plain English: Larger means bigger than something else.

"The larger house has a bigger garden than the smaller one."

Usage: Use larger to compare two items by indicating that one has greater size or extent than the other. It functions as the standard comparative adjective for "large" and always modifies a noun directly or follows a linking verb.

Example Sentences
"The larger house has a bigger garden than the smaller one." adj
"The larger dog barked at the smaller cat." adj
"She ordered the larger size of pizza for her family dinner." adj
"This year's harvest was much larger than last year's crop." adj
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Origin

Larger comes from Middle English, where it was formed by adding the suffix "-er" to the word large. This construction simply indicated a comparative degree of size relative to something else.

Rhyming Words
ger ager iger jäger jager tager unger lager rager eiger agger tiger aeger wager huger coger suger niger rpger inger
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