Adjective

1. On the loose; roaming freely; not confined.

   For a nervous twenty-four hours, three wanted criminals were at large in the city.

   The ambassador-at-large was designated to the Middle East as a region, rather than to a specific country.

2. In full, fully.
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, vol. I, New York 2001, p. 236:

     The like example I find in Lælius à Fonte Eugubinus, consult. 129 [...]. Read in him the story at large.

3. In general; as a whole.

   Some people support the measure, but the community at large will probably be against it.