LARGESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does largess mean? 

• LARGESS (noun)
  The noun LARGESS has 2 senses:

1. a gift or money given (as for service or out of benevolence); usually given ostentatiously

2. liberality in bestowing gifts; extremely liberal and generous of spirit

  Familiarity information: LARGESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LARGESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A gift or money given (as for service or out of benevolence); usually given ostentatiously

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

largess; largesse

Hypernyms ("largess" is a kind of...):

gift (something acquired without compensation)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Liberality in bestowing gifts; extremely liberal and generous of spirit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

largess; largesse; magnanimity; munificence; openhandedness

Hypernyms ("largess" is a kind of...):

liberality; liberalness (the trait of being generous in behavior and temperament)

 Context examples 

And from such largess, dispensed from his future, Martin turned and took his one good suit of clothes to the pawnshop.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Martin dispensed royal largess, inviting everybody up, farm-hands, a stableman, and the gardener's assistant from the hotel, the barkeeper, and the furtive hobo who slid in like a shadow and like a shadow hovered at the end of the bar.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)