size – English noun declension

English noun forms of size

Noun: size
Singularsize
Pluralsizes

Sample Sentences

  • The size of the building seemed to have increased since I was last there.
  • Ashley: Look at the size of that ship!
  • Kaidan: The Ascension. Flagship of the Citadel fleet.
  • Joker: Well, size isn't everything.
  • Ashley: Why so touchy, Joker?
  • Joker: I'm just saying you need firepower, too. [2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Normandy SR-1:]
  • [The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […]. [2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:]
  • I don't think we have the red one in your size.
  • What size are you? I mean, what size shoes do you take?
  • men of a less size and quality** [1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:]
  • the middle or lower size of people [1720, Jonathan Swift, A Letter to a Young Clergyman:]
  • Edward H[enry] Knight (1877), “Size”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes III (REA–ZYM), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC..
  • I know you would have women above the law, but it is all a lye; I heard his lordship say at size, that no one is above the law. [1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 560:]
  • to scant my sizes [c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:]

Etymology

Attested since the 14th century, originally meant a “law or regulation that determines the amount to be paid”, from Middle English syse, sise (“regulation, control, limit”), from Old French cise, sise, aphetism of assise (“assize”), from the verb asseoir (“to sit down”), from Latin assidēre, composed of ad- (“to, towards, at”) + sedeō (“sit; settle down”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sed-. Displaced native Old English miċelnes (literally “bigness”). See: Middle English Nouns 'syse'.

Verbs referencing "size"

Irish Nouns saghas.