enlargement

English

Etymology

enlarge +‎ -ment

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈlɑːd͡ʒ.mənt/

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• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈlɑɹd͡ʒ.mənt/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈlaːd͡ʒ.mənt/

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.
   • 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd, 2005 Barnes & Noble Classics publication of 1912 Wessex edition, p.337

     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.

3. An image, particularly a photograph, that has been enlarged.
4. (obsolete) Freedom from confinement; liberty.
   • 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] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:

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

5. Diffuseness of speech or writing; a speaking at length.
   • 1897, Peter Joseph Cooke, Forensic Eloquence, page 40:

     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.

Derived terms

• benign prostate enlargement

 

Translations

Act of making larger

• Arabic: تَوْسِيع m (tawsīʕ)
• Bulgarian: увеличаване (bg) n (uveličavane), уголемяване (bg) n (ugolemjavane)
• Czech: zvětšení n, zvětšování n
• Danish: forstørrelse c, udvidelse c
• Dutch: vergroting (nl) f
• French: élargissement (fr), agrandissement (fr)
• Georgian: გაფართოება (gapartoeba)
• German: Vergrößerung (de) f, Erweiterung (de)
• Greek: μεγέθυνση (el) f (megéthynsi), διεύρυνση (el) f (diévrynsi)
• Italian: aumento (it) m, ingrossamento (it) m
• Latin: prōlātiō (la) f
• Maori: whakarahinga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forstørrelse m

• Polish: powiększenie (pl) n, zwiększenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: aumento (pt) m, ampliação (pt) f
• Russian: увеличе́ние (ru) n (uveličénije)
• Spanish: agrandamiento (es) m
• Swedish: förstoring (sv) c
• Turkish: büyüme (tr)

something that has been made larger such as a picture or diagram

• Czech: zvětšenina (cs) f
• Danish: forstørrelse c
• Greek: μεγέθυνση (el) f (megéthynsi)
• Italian: ingrandimento (it) m
• Maori: whakarahinga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forstørrelse m

• Spanish: ampliación (es) f