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grand

adj
/ɡɹænd/

Etymology

From Middle English grand, grond, graund, graunt, from Anglo-Norman graunt, from Old French grant, from Latin grandis. Doublet of grande and grandee.

  1. derived from grandis
  2. derived from grant
  3. derived from graunt
  4. inherited from grand

Definitions

  1. Large, senior (high-ranking), intense, extreme, or exceptional

    • among the grandest orchestras of our time
    • The Grand Viziers of the Ottoman Empire.

  2. Standing in the second or some more remote degree of parentage or descent (see grand-).

    • grandfather, grandson, grand-child

  3. Fine

    Fine; lovely.

    • A cup of tea? That'd be grand.
  4. ›+ 7 more definitions

    1. Containing all the parts proper to a given form of composition.

    2. A thousand of some unit of currency, such as dollars or pounds. (Compare G.)

      • For quotations using this term, see Citations:grand.

    3. A thousand RPM.

      • One grand, two grand RPM
      • The engine, with more compression, carburetion, and cam timing than the Ambassador, could lounge comfortably below four grand and then rush to 7500 rpm, aided and abetted by a light flywheel and a close-ratio five-speed box.

    4. A grand piano

    5. A grandparent or grandchild.

      • Once, in Maryland, he met four families of slaves who had all been together for a hundred years: great-grands, grands, mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles, cousins, children.
      • Her granddaughter and great-granddaughter went with us as chaperones. Did I ever tell you that she had six grands and two great-grands? […] And Emily agrees with me it's a shame that I don't even have a grand.

    6. A placename

    7. A surname.

The neighborhood

Derived

baby grand, baby grand piano, boudoir grand, concert grand, GM, GP, grand 600-cell, grandacious, grand action, grand admiral, Grand Alliance, grand apartheid, Grand Bahama, Grand Bank, Grand Banks, grand C, Grand Canal, Grand Canary, Grand Canyon, Grand Canyon State, Grand Cayman, grand chop, grand climacteric, grand conjunction, Grand County, grand drape, grand ducal, grand-ducal, grand duchess, grand duchy, Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, grand-duke, grand duke, grand dukedom, Grand Exchange, Grand Falls, grand final, grand finale, grand fir · +97 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at grand. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at grand. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at grand

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA