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Definition of size : 1. A conventional relative measure of dimension, as for shoes, gloves, and other articles made up for sale.
2. A settled quantity or allowance. See Assize.
3. A thin, weak glue used in various trades, as in painting, bookbinding, paper making, etc.
4. An allowance of food and drink from the buttery, aside from the regular dinner at commons; - corresponding to battel at Oxford.
5. An instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet, - used for ascertaining the size of pearls.
6. Any viscous substance, as gilder's varnish.
7. Extent of superficies or volume; bulk; bigness; magnitude; as, the size of a tree or of a mast; the size of a ship or of a rock.
8. Figurative bulk; condition as to rank, ability, character, etc.; as, the office demands a man of larger size.
9. Six.
10. To adjust or arrange according to size or bulk.
11. To bring or adjust anything exactly to a required dimension, as by cutting.
12. To cover with size; to prepare with size.
13. To fix the standard of.
14. To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book.
15. To sift, as pieces of ore or metal, in order to separate the finer from the coarser parts.
16. To swell; to increase the bulk of.
17. To take greater size; to increase in size.
18. To take the height of men, in order to place them in the ranks according to their stature.

Synonyms:

stature, assay, intensity, value, quantity, measure, extension, calculate, immensity, sizing, capaciousness, big, highness, hugeness, size of it, judge, substance, sized, appraise, evaluate, vastness, gauge, sizableness, enormity, scope, mass, rate, take the measure of, estimate, assess, valuate

matched, alike, paired

expanse, width, length, greatness, portliness, capacity, amplitude, height, chunkiness, area, largeness, breadth, corpulence, bigness, measurement, proportion, volume, bulk, magnitude, extent, dimension

Usage examples:

• " Well, it is the same size as he wore- seven and a half," said Inspector Chippenfield. - "The Hampstead Mystery", John R. Watson.
• These signs were all of one size. - "A Gentleman Vagabond and Some Others", F. Hopkinson Smith.
• Are all these of the same shape, and of the same size? - "Guide to the Kindergarten and Intermediate Class and Moral Culture of Infancy.", Elizabeth P. Peabody Mary Mann.