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largo

1

[ lahr-goh ]

adjective

  1. slow; in a broad, dignified style.


noun

, plural lar·gos.
  1. a largo movement.

Largo

2

[ lahr-goh ]

noun

  1. a town in W Florida.

largo

/ ˈlɑːɡəʊ /

adjective

  1. to be performed slowly and broadly
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. a piece or passage to be performed in this way
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of largo1

From Italian, dating back to 1675–85; large
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Word History and Origins

Origin of largo1

C17: from Italian, from Latin largus large
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Example Sentences

Nine years later, the college moved to Largo, where its main campus remains today.

The system will restore three bus lines in October serving Greenbelt and Largo.

Three years ago, ready to revive the idea, she asked Thomas Ouellette, an executive producer on the special, to cull through dozens of hours of Largo performance audio to see what could work.

Though nearby pharmacies are offering the vaccine, Largo is limiting herself to finding a shot through one clinic that she knows treats people without insurance and has Spanish-speaking staff.

Largo doesn’t speak English, and medical providers don’t always have Spanish-speaking staff, so she’s not confident that she'll be able to ask questions about billing and other details once she gets to a vaccination site.

But Largo sees his new book on religion as a natural extension of his previous work.

Largo is now taking a few months off to figure out his next move.

It seems whatever topic Largo tackles, he becomes a man obsessed.

A composer writes a larghetto when he feels something like writing a largo but isn't, on the whole, quite up to it.

He told us he was born at Largo in the county of Fife, Scotland, and was bred a sailor from his youth.

We turn up the Largo Carlo-Felice, the second wide gap of a street, a vast but very short boulevard, like the end of something.

We were on the snow-dome which forms the summit of the Cima del Largo.

In the Finale of the sonata the Largo still makes its influence felt.

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