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enlargements

enlargements is the plural of enlargement.

Meaning of enlargement

Noun

enlargement (countable and uncountable, plural enlargements)

  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. (figuratively) A making more obvious or serious; exacerbation.
    • Bathsheba underwent the enlargement of her husband's absence from hours to days with a slight feeling of surprise, and a slight feeling of relief; yet neither sensation rose at any time far above the level commonly designated as indifference.1874, Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd, 2005 Barnes & Noble Classics publication of 1912 Wessex edition, p.337
  3. An image, particularly a photograph, that has been enlarged.
  4. (obsolete) Freedom from confinement; liberty.
    • Go, tenderness of years; take this key, give enlargement to the swain, bring him festinately hither.c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
  5. 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.1897, Peter Joseph Cooke, Forensic Eloquence, page 40

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Questions about enlargements

What is enlargements the plural of?
Enlargements is the plural of enlargement.

Words near enlargements in the dictionary

  1. enlarged
  2. enlarged up
  3. enlargedly
  4. enlargedness
  5. enlargement
  6. enlargements
  7. enlargen
  8. enlargened
  9. enlargening
  10. enlargens
  11. enlargeosome

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