GRAND NATIONAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Grand National mean? 

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

1. an annual steeplechase run in Liverpool, England

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRAND NATIONAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An annual steeplechase run in Liverpool, England

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("Grand National" is a kind of...):

steeplechase (a horse race over an obstructed course)

 Context examples 

He's a hard nail, is Jack, and a dead shot, too, but you can't leave a Grand National winner to die like that—what?

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)