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enlargement

noun
/ɪnˈlɑːd͡ʒ.mənt/UK/ɪnˈlɑɹd͡ʒ.mənt/CA/ɪnˈlaːd͡ʒ.mənt/

Etymology

From enlarge + -ment.

  1. derived from enlargier
  2. inherited from enlargen
  3. suffixed as enlargement — “enlarge + ment”

Definitions

  1. An act or instance of making something larger.

    • Rick was ashamed about the size of his penis, so he had a penis enlargement.

  2. A making more obvious or serious

    A making more obvious or serious; exacerbation.

  3. An image, particularly a photograph, that has been enlarged.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Freedom from confinement

      Freedom from confinement; liberty.

      • Go, tenderness of years; take this key, give enlargement to the swain, bring him festinately hither.

    2. Diffuseness of speech or writing

      Diffuseness of speech or writing; a speaking at length.

      • Briefly, a discourse generally consists in some prefatory remarks which pave the way as it were for the enlargement upon which a speaker usually enters when he speaks to any purpose.
      • He could discover very little further interest in his breakfast and turned to the other papers for possible enlargement of the details.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at enlargement. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01enlargement02photograph03memory04variable05diversity06equal-opportunity07indiscriminately08indiscriminate09extension

A definitional loop anchored at enlargement. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at enlargement

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA