ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Grail

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /ɡɹeɪl/ · Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Grail is a noun meaning The Holy Grail.

Meaning

The Holy Grail.

More Meanings

  1. Something eagerly sought or quested for.
  2. A book of offices in the Roman Catholic Church; a gradual.
  3. (poetic) Small particles of earth; gravel.
  4. One of the small feathers of a hawk.

Example Sentences

Becoming an astronaut was his grail.
antiphonals, missals, grails, processionals, etc.
How many of them had found the item they dreamt of, their personal grails?
Hereof this gentle knight vnweeting was, / And lying downe vpon the sandie graile, / Drunke of the streame, as cleare as cristall glas [...].

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