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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 100play

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

  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 scopeplay

2. of or befitting a lordplay

3. ostentatiously rich and superior in qualityplay

4. extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiersplay

5. of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or styleplay

6. large and impressive in physical size or extentplay

7. the most important and magnificent in adornmentplay

8. used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent personplay

  Familiarity information: GRAND used as an adjective is common.


 Dictionary entry details 


GRAND (noun)


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)


GRAND (adjective)

 Declension: comparative and superlative 
Comparative: grander  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Superlative: grandest  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope

Synonyms:

expansive; grand; heroic

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:

august; grand; lordly

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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