GRAND PIANO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does grand piano mean? 

• GRAND PIANO (noun)
  The noun GRAND PIANO has 1 sense:

1. a piano with the strings on a horizontal harp-shaped frame; usually supported by three legs

  Familiarity information: GRAND PIANO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRAND PIANO (noun)

Sense 1

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 piano" 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 piano"):

leg (one of the supports for a piece of furniture)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grand piano"):

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)

 Context examples 

But Beth, though yearning for the grand piano, could not pluck up courage to go to the 'Mansion of Bliss', as Meg called it.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Between a grand piano and a centre-table piled high with books was space for a half a dozen to walk abreast, yet he essayed it with trepidation.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

They found Mr. Laurence standing before the fire in the great drawing room, but Jo's attention was entirely absorbed by a grand piano, which stood open.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He saw himself, stripped to the waist, with naked fists, fighting his great fight with Liverpool Red in the forecastle of the Susquehanna; and he saw the bloody deck of the John Rogers, that gray morning of attempted mutiny, the mate kicking in death- throes on the main-hatch, the revolver in the old man's hand spitting fire and smoke, the men with passion-wrenched faces, of brutes screaming vile blasphemies and falling about him—and then he returned to the central scene, calm and clean in the steadfast light, where Ruth sat and talked with him amid books and paintings; and he saw the grand piano upon which she would later play to him; and he heard the echoes of his own selected and correct words, But then, may I not be peculiarly constituted to write?

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Laurie haunted the house like a restless ghost, and Mr. Laurence locked the grand piano, because he could not bear to be reminded of the young neighbor who used to make the twilight pleasant for him.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Mrs. March wanted to talk of her father with the old man who had not forgotten him, Meg longed to walk in the conservatory, Beth sighed for the grand piano, and Amy was eager to see the fine pictures and statues.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)