Grandee

Quick meaning: Grandee is a noun meaning A high-ranking nobleman in Spain or Portugal.

Meaning

A high-ranking nobleman in Spain or Portugal.

More Meanings

1. (by extension) A person of high rank.

Example Sentences

For some DSA grandees, like NYC chapter co-chair Bianca Cunningham, socialism means a planned economy that replaces market capitalism.

It is hard to see a good ending to the story of Peng Shuai, a Chinese tennis champion who on November 2nd accused a former Communist Party grandee more than twice her age of subjecting her to a coercive sexual relationship.

I indicated a chair, and he sat down. This grandee was the grandson of an American of considerable note in his day, and not wholly forgotten yet,—a man who came so near being a great man that he was quite generally accounted one while he lived.

Whereupon most did desist; but some, secreting their cigars in the hollow of their hands, took whiffs by stealth, and blushed to find it fame; while others, who were such grandees and big pots that their own convenience was the first and foremost desideratum, continued to smoke with lordliness and indifference.

Word Forms

• grandees
• grande

Synonyms for grandee

Depending on context, synonyms include magnate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include grands, large, grande, magnifico, grandeeship, state.

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