Real-life examples: The Grand Canyon is a big hole in the ground. Jupiter is a big planet. You would need a big box to hold 300 books. Skyscrapers are big buildings.
Used in a sentence: The restaurant brought out a big table to seat all 30 of us.

Big also describes something that is very important, worrisome, alarming, influential, or similarly worthy of notice.\n

Real-life examples: Jumping out of a plane without a parachute is a big mistake. A comet hitting Earth would be a big issue. The discovery of life on Mars would be big news.
Used in a sentence: The mold in our house turned into a big problem when we found out it was toxic.

Big is used informally to mean that something is popular or widely known.\n

Real-life examples: Disco was big in the 1970s. The internet started to become big in the 1990s when computers became affordable and connection speeds improved.
Used in a sentence: The actor was big 10 years ago but now nobody knows who he is.

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