grand
Meaning
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- Large, senior (high-ranking), intense, extreme, or exceptional
- Large, senior (high-ranking), intense, extreme, or exceptional
- Large, senior (high-ranking), intense, extreme, or exceptional
- Standing in the second or some more remote degree of parentage or descent (see grand-).
- (colloquial) Fine; lovely.
- Containing all the parts proper to a given form of composition.
Synonyms
enormous
noble-minded
elegrant
very large
magnific
be lofty
dignified and pretty
1000
preclare
be high
resplendant
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɡɹænd/
Etymology
From Middle English grand, grond, graund, graunt, from Anglo-Norman graunt, from Old French grant, from Latin grandis. Doublet of grande and grandee.
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