Grandname

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  A placename

• 2

  A placename

• 3

  A surname.

grandadj詞源 1/ˈɡɹænd/

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

  • among the grandest orchestras of our time
  • The Grand Viziers of the Ottoman Empire.
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  Large, senior (high-ranking), intense, extreme, or exceptional

  • a grand mountain
  • a grand army
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  Large, senior (high-ranking), intense, extreme, or exceptional

  • a grand monarch
  • a grand view
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  Large, senior (high-ranking), intense, extreme, or exceptional

  • a grand lodge
  • a grand vizier
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  Standing in the second or some more remote degree of parentage or descent (see grand-).

  • grandfather, grandson, grand-child
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  Fine; lovely.

  • A cup of tea? That'd be grand.
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  entertainmentlifestylemusicContaining all the parts proper to a given form of composition.

grandnoun詞源 1/ˈɡɹænd/

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

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

grandnoun詞源 2/ˈɡɹænd/

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  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.