grand

• IPA^(key): /ɡɹænd/

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• Rhymes: -ænd

From Middle English grand, grond, graund, graunt, from Anglo-Norman graunt, from Old French grant, from Latin grandis.

grand (comparative grander or more grand, superlative grandest or most grand)

1. Of a large size or extent; great.

   a grand mountain

   a grand army

   a grand mistake

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

   a grand monarch

   a grand view

   His simple vision has transformed into something far more grand.

   • 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard

     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.

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

   a grand lodge

   a grand vizier

   a grand piano

   The Grand Viziers of the Ottoman Empire.

4. (usually in compound forms) Standing in the second or some more remote degree of parentage or descent.

   grandfather, grandson, grand-child

5. (Ireland, Northern England, colloquial, otherwise dated) Fine; lovely.

   A cup of tea? That'd be grand.

6. (music) Containing all the parts proper to a given form of composition.

grand (plural grand)

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

   For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:grand.

2. (music) A grand piano

From granddaughter, grandfather, grandmother, grandson, etc.

grand (plural grands)

1. A grandparent or grandchild.
   • 1987, Toni Morrison, Beloved, page 269:

     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.

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

     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.

• grand in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

• DRAGN

From Latin grandis.

grand (feminine grand or grande, masculine plural grands, feminine plural grands or grandes)

1. big

From Middle French grand, from Old French grant, from Latin grandis, grandem.

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁɑ̃/, /ɡʁɑ̃t/ (when followed by a word beginning with a vowel)

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grand (feminine singular grande, masculine plural grands, feminine plural grandes)

1. big, great, grand
2. tall
3. (usually capitalized) Great, an honorific title

   Alexandre le Grand ― Alexander the Great

4. great; big fat; an intensifier

   un grand tricheur ― a big fat cheater

5. extensive, large

• grand-mère
• grand-père
• grand-chose

• “grand” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• grant (standard orthography)

grand

1. Alternative form of grant

From Old Norse grand (“injury, hurt”).

• IPA^(key): /krant/
• Rhymes: -ant

grand n (genitive singular grands, nominative plural grönd)

1. damage, harm, destruction

• mein
• skaði
• óskundi

• granda

• grant

From Old French grant, from Latin grandis, grandem.

grand m (feminine singular grande, masculine plural grands, feminine plural grandes) (comparative greigneur, superlative greigneur)

1. big; large

• French: grand

• grànd (Guernsey)

From Old French grant, from Latin grandis, grandem.

• IPA^(key): /ɡrɑ̃/, /ɡrɔ̃/

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grand m

1. (Jersey) big

From Latin grandis.

grand m (feminine singular granda, masculine plural grands, feminine plural grandas)

1. big, large

   Antonyms: pichon, petit

• grandament
• grandàs
• grandesa

• Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians, 2 edition, →ISBN, page 538.

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) grond
• (Sutsilvan) grànd

From Latin grandis, grandem.

grand m (feminine singular granda, masculine plural grands, feminine plural grandas)

1. (Puter) big, large
2. (Puter) tall

grand n

1. a mote, a speck, something very small and unimportant

   Huru kommer det till, att du ser grandet i din broders öga, men icke bliver varse bjälken i ditt eget öga?

   And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? (Matthew 7:3)

• The form grann is used in the adverb litegrann (“a bit”), which in older texts can be written litet grand.
• Phrases like vi åt lunch på Grand, refer to a "Grand Hotel" available in several towns

From Old French grant, from Latin grandis, grandem.

grand m (feminine singular grande, masculine plural grands, feminine plural grandes)

1. large, big