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GRAND
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Dictionary entry overview: What does grand mean?
• GRAND (noun)
The noun GRAND has 2 senses:
1. the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
2. a piano with the strings on a horizontal harp-shaped frame; usually supported by three legs
Familiarity information: GRAND used as a noun is rare.
• GRAND (adjective)
The adjective GRAND has 8 senses:
1. of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope
2. of or befitting a lord
3. ostentatiously rich and superior in quality
4. extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers
5. of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style
6. large and impressive in physical size or extent
7. the most important and magnificent in adornment
8. used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person
Familiarity information: GRAND used as an adjective is common.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Synonyms:
1000; chiliad; G; grand; K; M; one thousand; thou; thousand; yard
Hypernyms ("grand" is a kind of...):
large integer (an integer equal to or greater than ten)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grand"):
millenary (a sum or aggregate of one thousand (especially one thousand years))
Sense 2
Meaning:
A piano with the strings on a horizontal harp-shaped frame; usually supported by three legs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
grand; grand piano
Hypernyms ("grand" is a kind of...):
forte-piano; piano; pianoforte (a keyboard instrument that is played by depressing keys that cause hammers to strike tuned strings and produce sounds)
Meronyms (parts of "grand"):
leg (one of the supports for a piece of furniture)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grand"):
baby grand; baby grand piano; parlor grand; parlor grand piano; parlour grand; parlour grand piano (a small grand piano)
concert grand; concert piano (a grand piano suitable for concert performances)
| Declension: comparative and superlative |
Superlative: grandest
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope
Synonyms:
Context example:
heroic undertakings
Similar:
impressive (making a strong or vivid impression)
Derivation:
grandness (unusual largeness in size or extent or number)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Of or befitting a lord
Synonyms:
Context example:
of august lineage
Similar:
noble (of or belonging to or constituting the hereditary aristocracy especially as derived from feudal times)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Ostentatiously rich and superior in quality
Synonyms:
deluxe; gilded; grand; lush; luxurious; opulent; princely; sumptuous
Context example:
these architecture magazines are full of the lush interiors of the rich and famous
Similar:
rich (suggestive of or characterized by great expense)
Derivation:
grandness (splendid or imposing in size or appearance)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers
Synonyms:
fantastic; grand; howling; marvellous; marvelous; rattling; terrific; tremendous; wonderful; wondrous
Context example:
a tremendous achievement
Similar:
extraordinary (beyond what is ordinary or usual; highly unusual or exceptional or remarkable)
Derivation:
grandness (the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style
Synonyms:
elevated; exalted; grand; high-flown; high-minded; idealistic; lofty; noble-minded; rarefied; rarified; sublime
Context example:
a grand purpose
Similar:
noble (having or showing or indicative of high or elevated character)
Derivation:
grandness (the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand)
Sense 6
Meaning:
Large and impressive in physical size or extent
Context example:
the bridge is a grand structure
Similar:
big; large (above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent)
Derivation:
grandness (splendid or imposing in size or appearance)
grandness (unusual largeness in size or extent or number)
Sense 7
Meaning:
The most important and magnificent in adornment
Context example:
grand staircase
Similar:
important; of import (of great significance or value)
Derivation:
grandness (splendid or imposing in size or appearance)
grandness (a prominent status)
Sense 8
Meaning:
Used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person
Synonyms:
distinguished; grand; imposing; magisterial
Context example:
she reigned in magisterial beauty
Similar:
dignified (having or expressing dignity; especially formality or stateliness in bearing or appearance)
Derivation:
grandness (the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand)
Context examples
I wanted to be the one to tell you the grand surprise, and have 'first skim' as we used to say when we squabbled about the cream.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
“I shall use my judgment when to look and when not to look,” she replied with a grand air.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
That evening there came what seemed to me to be a grand release, for Hudson told us that he was going to leave us.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"Just grand, an' thrilling, too. I was all worked up."
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
This was all my master thought fit to tell me, at that time, of what passed in the grand council.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Yet he was so proud and had such a grand manner of talking, that no one dared to offer him a cloak or a meal.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I retired to rest at night; my slumbers, as it were, waited on and ministered to by the assemblance of grand shapes which I had contemplated during the day.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
"Currently we have no grand unifying theory for how Earth evolved thermally," Stegman said.
(Earth's mantle, not its core, may have generated planet's early magnetic field, National Science Foundation)
Eight and a half years into its grand tour of the solar system, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft was ready for another encounter.
(The ice giant Uranus appears to be losing a bit of its atmosphere to space, NASA)
Over the hill of the Hammer-Heads, he answered, lies a grand old forest, and all the beasts that live there have made me their King.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
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