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発音

• IPA: /ɡɹænd/
• 韻: -ænd

語源 1

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

別の表記

• grande

形容詞

grand (comparative grander or more grand, superlative grandest or most grand)

1. (augmentative) Large, senior (high-ranking), intense, extreme, or exceptional
   1. Of a large size or extent; great.

      a grand mountain

      a grand army

      a grand mistake

   2. Great in size, and fine or imposing in appearance or impression; illustrious, dignified, magnificent.

      a grand monarch

      a grand view

      His simple vision has transformed into something far more grand.

      • 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:

        In the mean time, Cluffe had arrived. He was a little bit huffed and grand at being nailed as an evidence, upon a few words carelessly, or, if you will, confidentially dropped at his own mess-table, where Lowe chanced to be a guest; and certainly with no suspicion that his little story could in any way be made to elucidate the mystery of Sturk's murder.

   3. Having higher rank or more dignity, size, or importance than other persons or things of the same name.

      a grand lodge

      a grand vizier

      a grand piano

   among the grandest orchestras of our time

   Grand Admiral

   The Grand Viziers of the Ottoman Empire.

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

   grandfather, grandson, grand-child

3. (Ireland, Northern England, colloquial, otherwise dated) Fine; lovely.

   A cup of tea? That'd be grand.

4. (music) Containing all the parts proper to a given form of composition.

同意語

• (augmentative): great, super-, supra-, hyper-, ultra-, uber-, macro-, arch-, over-, mega-, giga-, -zilla

派生語

関連する語

名詞

grand (plural grands or grand)

1. (plural "grand") A thousand of some unit of currency, such as dollars or pounds. (Compare G.)

   Synonym: large

   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:grand.
2. (colloquial, automotive, plural "grand") A thousand RPM.
   • 1979, The Four Speeds, “R.P.M.”:

     One grand, two grand RPM

   • 1999, Cycle World Magazine, October 1999 edition, page 60:

     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.

3. (music, plural "grands") A grand piano

語源 2

From granddaughter, grandfather, grandmother, grandson, etc.

名詞

grand (plural grands)

1. A grandparent or grandchild.
   • 1987, Toni Morrison, Beloved, page 269:

     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.

   • 2012, Brenda Jackson, Texas Wild & Beyond Temptation, page 47:

     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.

Further reading

• “grand”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• DRAGN

接頭辞

grand-

1. of a generation removed from the original noun

   Seth is Amal's grandfather.

同意語

• great-

派生語

アナグラム

• DRAGN