GRANDLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does grandly mean? 

• GRANDLY (adverb)
  The adverb GRANDLY has 1 sense:

1. in a grand manner

  Familiarity information: GRANDLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRANDLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a grand manner

Context example:

the mansion seemed grandly large by today's standards

Pertainym:

grand (of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope)

 Context examples 

“You, sir, are the captain. It is for you to speak,” says Mr. Trelawney grandly.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

There's a long hall out there, and we can dance grandly, and no one will see us.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Calmly turning his back upon young dog and shin-bone, as though both were beneath his notice and unworthy of his consideration, he stalked grandly away.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

She stood grandly defiant, a queenly figure, her eyes fixed upon his as if she would read his very soul.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then there are the two parlours: the parlour in which we sit of an evening, my mother and I and Peggotty—for Peggotty is quite our companion, when her work is done and we are alone—and the best parlour where we sit on a Sunday; grandly, but not so comfortably.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Right and left of us they towered, with the afternoon sun falling full upon them and bringing out all the glorious colours of this beautiful range, deep blue and purple in the shadows of the peaks, green and brown where grass and rock mingled, and an endless perspective of jagged rock and pointed crags, till these were themselves lost in the distance, where the snowy peaks rose grandly.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It was almost as exciting as riding a fast horse, when we went rushing on so grandly.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)