Grand

/ɡɹænd/ · adjective

Meaning

(augmentative) Large, senior (high-ranking), intense, extreme, or exceptional.

Definitions by Sense

1. (augmentative) Large, senior (high-ranking), intense, extreme, or exceptional
2. (usually in compound forms) Standing in the second or some more remote degree of parentage or descent (see grand-).
3. (Ireland, Northern England, colloquial, otherwise dated) Fine; lovely.
4. (music) Containing all the parts proper to a given form of composition.
5. (plural "grand") A thousand of some unit of currency, such as dollars or pounds. (Compare G.)
6. (colloquial, automotive, plural "grand") A thousand RPM.
7. (music, plural "grands") A grand piano
8. A grandparent or grandchild.

Example Sentences

among the grandest orchestras of our time

The Grand Viziers of the Ottoman Empire.

grandfather, grandson, grand-child

A cup of tea? That'd be grand.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:grand.

One grand, two grand RPM

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.

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.

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Word Forms

• grander
• more grand
• grandest
• most grand
• grande
• grands
• grand

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