grant
English
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for grant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Alternative forms
- graunt (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English granten, graunten, grantien, grauntien, from Anglo-Norman granter, graunter, from Old French granter, graunter, graanter, greanter (“to promise, assure, guarantee, confirm, ratify”), from a merger of Old French garantir, guarantir (“to guarantee, assure, vouch for”) (see English guarantee) and earlier cranter, craanter, creanter (“to allow, permit”), from an assumed Medieval Latin *credentāre, from Latin credere (“to believe, trust”). More at guarantee, credit.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɡɹɑːnt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɡɹænt/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ænt, -ɑːnt
Verb
grant (third-person singular simple present grants, present participle granting, simple past and past participle granted)
- (ditransitive) to give (permission or wish)
- He was granted permission to attend the meeting.
- The genie granted him three wishes
- (ditransitive) To bestow or confer, with or without compensation, particularly in answer to prayer or request; to give.(Can we add an example for this sense?)
- 1668 July 3, James Dalrymple, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Houſtoun” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 548:
- He Suſpends on theſe Reaſons, that Thomas Rue had granted a general Diſcharge to Adam Muſhet, who was his Conjunct, and correus debendi, after the alleadged Service, which Diſcharged Muſhet, and conſequently Houstoun his Partner.
- 2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 23, page 19:
- In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. […]
- 1668 July 3, James Dalrymple, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Houſtoun” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 548:
- (transitive) To admit as true what is not yet satisfactorily proved.
- a. 1921, George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah, Preface ("The Infidel Half Century"), section "In Quest of the First Cause":
- The universe exists, said the father: somebody must have made it. If that somebody exists, said I, somebody must have made him. I grant that for the sake of argument, said the Oratorian.
- a. 1921, George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah, Preface ("The Infidel Half Century"), section "In Quest of the First Cause":
- (intransitive) To assent; to consent.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
Translations
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Noun
grant (plural grants)
- The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; allowance; permission.
- The yielding or admission of something in dispute.
- The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon.
- I got a grant from the government to study archeology in Egypt.
- (law) A transfer of property by deed or writing; especially, an appropriation or conveyance made by the government.
- a grant of land or of money
- The deed or writing by which such a transfer is made.
- (informal) An application for a grant (monetary boon to aid research or the like).
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Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈɡrant]
Noun
grant m
- grant (the thing or property granted; a gift; a boon)
- dotace a granty z evropských fondů ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- požádat o a získat grant od grantové agentury ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
Derived terms
- grantový
Related terms
- See krédo
Franco-Provençal
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Latin grandis, grandem.
Adjective
grant m (feminine singular grant or granta, masculine plural grants, feminine plural grants or grantes)
Derived terms
- agrantir
- grantior
- grant-marci
- grant-temps
- Through alternative form grand:
- agrandissement
- grandir
- grandèt
Norwegian Nynorsk
Old French
Etymology
From Latin grandis, grandem.
Adjective
grant m (oblique and nominative feminine singular grant or grande)
Declension
Old Spanish
Alternative forms
- grand (alternative spelling)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ɡɾãnt], [ɡɾãn]
Adjective
grant m or f (plural grandes)
- Apocopic form of grande; great; big; large.
- c. 1200: Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 18r.
- Fue el dia ṫcero al alba dela man. ¬ vinẏerȯ truenos ¬ relȧpagos ¬ nuf grȧt ſobrel mȯt.
- On the morning of the third day there came thunder and flashes of lightning and a great cloud upon the mountain.
- Fue el dia ṫcero al alba dela man. ¬ vinẏerȯ truenos ¬ relȧpagos ¬ nuf grȧt ſobrel mȯt.
- c. 1200: Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 18r.