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The Collaborative International Dictionary
largest

largest \largest\ adj.

  1. greatest in size of those under consideration.

    Syn: biggest, greatest.

  2. maximal.

    Syn: outside.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
largest

superlative of large (q.v.).

Wiktionary
largest

a. (en-superlative of: large)

WordNet
largest
  1. adj. greatest in size of those under consideration [syn: biggest, greatest]

  2. maximal in amount; "a maximal amount"; "an outside estimate" [syn: outside]

Usage examples of "largest".

The densest elements, which Earth has not yet discovered, those with the largest atoms, are poisonous and dangerous to life in many ways.

The largest animal in the water is the size of your hand and is quite timid.

In your units, the smallest piece or combination is about 60 pounds, the largest about 250.

George, that it is the old men with the largest cocks that pay the most for virgins?

He saw the largest nonwhite room yet, a green of at least forty by sixty feet, no door on the far wall, one into a pink on the left, two on the right to a blue and another green.

But the diamond form of it is very rare, especially for the largest crystals.

The queen ordered the two males with the largest quantity of appropriate nutriments -- not very much unfortunately, though understandably -- to apply tongues to the cleanly severed stump, closing blood vessels against the future flow and depositing the nanomachines that would soon guide regrowth.

The unbalanced force threw Alfred forward against the largest, standing directly before him, whose hand had darted into his coat.

Laurie took out the largest, two panels of a flat black substance with a hinge between them, and laid it on the crate, one panel lying flat, the other raised upright.

The largest man hoisted the spittoon to his shoulder, delivered it to the office and sat it near the wardrobe.

For all the hours the women played he had crouched atop the largest boulder near the strand, having reached it with a ten-foot jump that no woman could match.

This room was truly huge, doubtlessly the largest in Joy Hall, nearly 200 feet wide.

I am told that the largest life native to this world is aquatic, about the size of your hand.

After inspecting arms and ammunition George required that the largest box be opened.

He adorned the next largest guardsman similarly with the second gaoler and sent them through behind the first.