- 1氣派、壯麗。口語常說「很有氣派」；delusions of grandeur 則是幻想自己很了不起。
Grandeur is the quality of being great in a way you can feel — big, fine, and a little stunning. A mountain range can have grandeur; so can a palace, a ceremony, or the way a person carries themselves. It is impressive beauty, power, or size, often mixed together. The word is rather formal and a bit like a book; in ordinary talk people might just say how grand something looks. There is an old dignity in it. Though actually, grandeur is not always praise. “Delusions of grandeur” is a set phrase for when someone believes they are far more important than they are. So the word can name real greatness, or only the dream of it.
From the word’s history
From Middle French grandeur, from Latin grandis 'grown up, great'.
借自中古法文 grandeur，來自拉丁文 grandis「長大的、偉大的」。
組成Borrowed from Middle French grandeur, from Old French grandur, from grant (French grand), from Latin grandis (“grown up, great”).
同家族的字
- grandfrom the same Latin grandis
原始詞典資料3 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。
grandeurnoun/ˈɡɹæn.djʊə/
- 1
The state of being grand or splendid; magnificence.
- I wrapp’d myself in grandeur then, And donn’d a visionary crown ——
- So much of what followed from the drawing boards of others will have been designed with the demands, effort and grandeur of Primrose Hill [tunnel] in the back of their minds.
- 2
Nobility (state of being noble).
- 3
archaicrareGreatness; largeness; tallness; loftiness.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。