{UAH} WORD OF THE DAY February 1, 2019-- largesse

WORD OF THE DAY February 1, 2019

largesse    noun | lahr-ZHESS     Definition   1 : liberal giving (as of money) to or as if to an inferior; also : something so given   2 : generosity   Scroll down for more about largesse      TRENDING NOW: squall vortex assimilation cave SEE ALL      PEOPLE ARE READING   'Raddled' — Video Word of the Day 1/31/2019       New England vs. Los Angeles: A Battle of Words     'Proliferate' — Video Word of the Day 1/30/2019       Around the House in 8 Words         WORD GAMES AND QUIZZES: WEEKLY CHALLENGE   January 2019 Words of the Day Quiz   Huddle around your screen.     PLAY NOW     Nailed this quiz? We have plenty more to try!  TAKE ME THERE         Did You Know?   The word largesse, which also can be spelled largess, has been part of the English language since at least the 13th century. It derives via Anglo-French from the Latin word largus, meaning "abundant" or "generous." Largus is also the source of our word large. As far back as the 14th century, we used the word largeness as a synonym of largesse (meaning "liberal giving"), but largeness was also at that same time being used more frequently as it is now: to refer to physical magnitude and bulk rather than to magnanimity.     Examples of LARGESSE   Thanks to their grandparents' largesse, both children were able to go to college without going into debt.   "Probably no surprise, given all this largesse over the Christmas period, spending at recycling and refuse stations was up 46.2 per cent on Boxing Daylast year." — The New Zealand Herald, 28 Dec. 2018   Test Your Vocabulary   Fill in the blanks to complete an adjective that means "generous": _ p _ n _ _ n _ ed.   VIEW THE ANSWER           WORD OF THE YEAR 2018     Justice + 10 more   Read why justice is our Word of the Year, plus lodestar, epiphany, pansexual, and 7 more top words!   SEE THE FULL LIST            MORE WORD FUN:     WORD GAMES          TRENDING NOW          WORDS AT PLAY      FOLLOW US:

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