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From the word’s history

From Middle English grand, via Anglo-Norman graunt and Old French grant, from Latin grandis.

經古法文 grant 來自拉丁文 grandis。

Wiktionary

You can think of grand as something that makes you look up and feel small in front of it — a huge old palace, a tall sweep of mountains, something built or done on a big, impressive scale. The base picture is sheer size and splendour that commands respect.

可以把 grand 想成那種讓你抬頭仰望、自覺渺小的東西——一座巨大的古老宮殿、一整片高聳的山脈，規模大、氣派足，看了會肅然起敬。最底層的畫面比較像「大到令人讚嘆、氣勢逼人」。

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同家族的字

a grander grandest

n grand / grands

用法接近

pianoupright pianokeyboard

原始詞典資料14 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Grandname

  • 1

    A placename

  • 2

    A placename

  • 3

    A surname.

grandadj詞源 1/ˈɡɹænd/

  • 1

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

    • among the grandest orchestras of our time
    • The Grand Viziers of the Ottoman Empire.
  • 2

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

    • a grand mountain
    • a grand army
  • 3

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

    • a grand monarch
    • a grand view
  • 4

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

    • a grand lodge
    • a grand vizier
  • 5

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

    • grandfather, grandson, grand-child
  • 6

    Fine; lovely.

    • A cup of tea? That'd be grand.
  • 7

    entertainmentlifestylemusicContaining all the parts proper to a given form of composition.

grandnoun詞源 1/ˈɡɹænd/

  • 1

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

    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:grand.
  • 2

    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.
  • 3

    entertainmentlifestylemusicA grand piano

grandnoun詞源 2/ˈɡɹænd/

  • 1

    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.

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