grand

comparative grander · comparative more grand · superlative grandest · superlative most grand · alternative grande

1. augmentativeLarge, senior (high-ranking), intense, extreme, or exceptional

   The Grand Viziers of the Ottoman Empire.

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   among the grandest orchestras of our time

   1. augmentativeOf a large size or extent; great.

      a grand army

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      a grand mountain

      a grand mistake

   2. augmentativeGreat in size, and fine or imposing in appearance or impression; illustrious, dignified, magnificent.

      a grand view

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      a grand monarch

      His simple vision has transformed into something far more grand.

      In the mean time, Cluffe had arrived. He was a little bit huffed and grand at being nailed as an evidence, upon a few words carelessly, or, if you will, confidentially dropped at his own mess-table, where Lowe chanced to be a guest; and certainly with no suspicion that his little story could in any way be made to elucidate the mystery of Sturk's murder.

      1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard

   3. augmentativeHaving higher rank or more dignity, size, or importance than other persons or things of the same name.

      a grand lodge

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      a grand vizier

      a grand piano

2. usually in compound formsStanding in the second or some more remote degree of parentage or descent (see grand-).

   grandfather, grandson, grand-child

3. IrelandNorthern Englandcolloquialotherwise datedFine; lovely.

   A cup of tea? That'd be grand.

4. entertainmentContaining all the parts proper to a given form of composition.

plural grands · alternative grande

1. plural "grand"A thousand of some unit of currency, such as dollars or pounds. (Compare G.)

   For quotations using this term, see Citations:grand.

   Synonyms: large

2. colloquialplural "grand"automotiveA thousand RPM.

   One grand, two grand RPM

   1979, The Four Speeds, “R.P.M.”

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   The engine, with more compression, carburetion, and cam timing than the Ambassador, could lounge comfortably below four grand and then rush to 7500 rpm, aided and abetted by a light flywheel and a close-ratio five-speed box.

   1999, Cycle World Magazine, October 1999 edition, page 60

3. plural "grands"entertainmentA grand piano

plural grands

1. A grandparent or grandchild.

   Once, in Maryland, he met four families of slaves who had all been together for a hundred years: great-grands, grands, mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles, cousins, children.

   1987, Toni Morrison, Beloved, page 269

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   Her granddaughter and great-granddaughter went with us as chaperones. Did I ever tell you that she had six grands and two great-grands? […] And Emily agrees with me it's a shame that I don't even have a grand.

   2012, Brenda Jackson, Texas Wild & Beyond Temptation, page 47

plural Grands

1. A placename
   1. countableuncountableA commune in Vosges department, Grand Est, France.
   2. countableuncountableA ghost town (historic place) in Ellis County, Oklahoma, United States.
2. countableA surname.