GRANTとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 granten, graunten, grantien, grauntien, from Anglo-Norman granter, graunter, from Old French granter, graunter, graanter, greanter (“to promise, assure, guarantee, confirm, ratify”), from a merger of Old French garantir, guarantir (“to guarantee, assure, vouch for”) (see English guarantee) and earlier cranter, craanter, creanter (“to allow, permit”), from an assumed Medieval Latin *credentāre, from Latin credere (“to believe, trust”). Alternatively, a regular reflex of Medieval Latin *credentāre with regular voicing of /k/ before a liquid plus low vowel. More at guarantee, credit.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: gränt IPA: /ɡɹɑːnt/
• (General American) enPR: grănt IPA: /ɡɹænt/
• (Mid-Atlantic) enPR: grŏnt IPA: /ɡɹɒnt/
• 韻: -ænt, -ɑːnt

動詞

grant (third-person singular simple present grants, present participle granting, simple past and past participle granted)

1. (ditransitive) To give (permission or wish).

   Antonym: deny

   He was granted permission to attend the meeting.

   The genie granted him three wishes

2. (ditransitive) To give (bestow upon or confer, particularly in answer to prayer or request).
   • 1668 July 3, James Dalrymple, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Houſtoun” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 548:

     He Suſpends on theſe Reaſons, that Thomas Rue had granted a general Diſcharge to Adam Muſhet, who was his Conjunct, and correus debendi, after the alleadged Service, which Diſcharged Muſhet, and conſequently Houstoun his Partner.

   • c. 1930, Serenity Prayer

     God, grant me the serenity […]

   • 2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly‎, volume 188, number 23, page 19:

     In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. […]

3. (transitive) To agree with (someone) on (something); to accept (something) for the sake of argument; to admit to (someone) that (something) is true.

   Synonyms: concur, concede, allow

   • a. 1921, George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah, Preface ("The Infidel Half Century"), section "In Quest of the First Cause":

     The universe exists, said the father: somebody must have made it. If that somebody exists, said I, somebody must have made him. I grant that for the sake of argument, said the Oratorian.

   • 1897, Marie Corelli, “Chapter I”, in Ziska: The Problem of a Wicked Soul, New York: Stone & Kimball, pages 23–24:

     "They are tall, certainly," said Sir Chetwynd... "I grant you they are tall. That is, the majority of them are. But I have seen short men among them. The Khedive is not taller than I am. And the Egyptian face is very deceptive. The features are often fine,—occasionally classic,—but intelligent expression is totally lacking."

4. (intransitive) To assent; to consent.
   • c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

     Before I would have granted to that act.
     But thou preferr'st thy life before thine honor.

Conjugation

派生語

名詞

grant (plural grants)

1. The act of granting or giving

   Synonyms: concession, allowance

   the grant of permission for a project

2. The yielding or admission of something in dispute.
3. The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon.

   I got a grant from the government to study archeology in Egypt.

4. (law) A transfer of property by deed or writing; especially, an appropriation or conveyance made by the government.

   a grant of land or of money

5. The deed or writing by which such a transfer is made.
6. (informal) An application for a grant (monetary boon to aid research or the like).

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