size

nounextent or bulk of some dimension

Synonyms for size

noun extent or bulk of some dimension

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Word Origin & History

c.1300, "an ordinance to fix the amount of a payment or tax," from Old French sise, shortened form of assise "session, assessment, regulation, manner" (see assize), probably a misdivision of l'assise as la sise. The sense of "extent, amount, volume, magnitude" (c.1300) is from the notion of regulating something by fixing the amount of it (weights, food portions, etc.). Specific sense of "set of dimensions of a manufactured article for sale" is attested from 1590s.

Example Sentences for size

To make sure of success and the size of his stakes he was willing to invest heavily.

How long the bread should bake depends on the size of the loaf.

Bake for an hour or more, according to the size of the loaves.

"She must have had ready another stone of shape and size like it," said the Corn Woman.

And she says: 'How old is the young lady, and what's her size, and what's her color?'

Had her poor little room doubled its size and trebled its furniture?

There's a doll I brought her from New Orleans once when she was about your size.

They had been arranged somewhat according to size, with the curve outward.

No creature of his own size had ever talked with him, in thunder-like accents, face to face.

It was all of a chestnut-red colour, long-bodied, in size like a big pigeon.

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