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gree

noun
/ɡɹiː/

Etymology

From Middle English gre, from Old French gré (“pleasure, goodwill”), from Latin gratum, a noun use of the neuter of gratus (“pleasing”).

  1. derived from gradum
  2. derived from gré
  3. inherited from gre

Definitions

  1. One of a flight of steps.

    • "My grand-daughter doesn't like to be kept waitin' when the tea is ready, for it takes me time to crammle aboon the grees, for there be a many of 'em, and miss, I lack belly-timber sairly by the clock."

  2. A stage in a process

    A stage in a process; a degree of rank or station.

    • He is a shepherd great in gree.

  3. A degree.

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. Pre-eminence

      Pre-eminence; victory or superiority in combat (hence also, the prize for winning a combat).

    2. Pleasure, goodwill, satisfaction.

      • Accept in gree, my lord, the words I spoke.
      • When it was the Second Night, said Dunyazad to her sister Shahrazad, "O my sister, finish for us that story of the Merchant and the Jinni;" and she answered "With joy and goodly gree, if the King permit me."

    3. To agree.

      • Gob. […]how dooſt thou and thy Maſter agree, I haue brought him a preſent; how gree you now?

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