GRANDEUR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does grandeur mean? 

• GRANDEUR (noun)
  The noun GRANDEUR has 2 senses:

1. the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand

2. the quality of elevation of mind and exaltation of character or ideals or conduct

  Familiarity information: GRANDEUR used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRANDEUR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

brilliance; grandeur; grandness; magnificence; splendor; splendour

Context example:

advertisers capitalize on the grandness and elegance it brings to their products

Hypernyms ("grandeur" is a kind of...):

elegance (a refined quality of gracefulness and good taste)

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

eclat (brilliant or conspicuous success or effect)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The quality of elevation of mind and exaltation of character or ideals or conduct

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

grandeur; magnanimousness; nobility; nobleness

Hypernyms ("grandeur" is a kind of...):

honorableness; honourableness (the quality of deserving honor or respect; characterized by honor)

Attribute:

noble (having or showing or indicative of high or elevated character)

ignoble (completely lacking nobility in character or quality or purpose)

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

high-mindedness; idealism; noble-mindedness (elevated ideals or conduct; the quality of believing that ideals should be pursued)

sublimity (nobility in thought or feeling or style)

 Context examples 

Where was the grandeur of life that it should permit such wanton destruction of human souls?

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The grandeur of the house astonished, but could not console her.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

She was struck, however, beyond her expectation, by the grandeur of the abbey, as she saw it for the first time from the lawn.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

She must have been in your own circle; for as you went with Lady Dalrymple, you were in the seats of grandeur, round the orchestra, of course.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Everything appeared very stately and imposing to me; but then I was so little accustomed to grandeur.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

But she did not lose her head this time, for she seated Brissenden in her parlor's grandeur of respectability.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I determined to go without a guide, for I was well acquainted with the path, and the presence of another would destroy the solitary grandeur of the scene.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

And all the grandeur of the connexion seemed dependent on the elder sister, who was very well married, to a gentleman in a great way, near Bristol, who kept two carriages!

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

"What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?"

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

She could not determine how her mother would take it; sometimes doubting whether all his wealth and grandeur would be enough to overcome her abhorrence of the man.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)