Antonyms for grand


Grammar : Adj
Spell : grand
Phonetic Transcription : grænd


Definition of grand

Origin :
  • late 14c., grant "large, big" (early 12c. in surnames), from Anglo-French graunt and directly from Old French grant, grand (10c.) "large, tall; grown-up; great, powerful, important; strict, severe; extensive; numerous," from Latin grandis "big, great; full, abundant," also "full-grown;" figuratively "strong, powerful, weighty, severe" (perhaps cognate with Greek brenthyomai "to swagger, be haughty"). It supplanted magnus in Romanic languages; in English with a special sense of "imposing." The connotations of "noble, sublime, lofty, dignified," etc., were in Latin. As a general term of admiration, "magnificent, splendid," from 1816. Related: Grander; grandest.
  • The use of grand- in compounds, with the sense of "a generation older than, or younger than," is first attested c.1200, in Anglo-French graund dame "grandmother." Latin and Greek had similar usages.
  • Grand jury is late 15c. Grand piano from 1797. The grand tour of the principal sites of continental Europe, as part of a gentleman's education, is attested by that name from 1660s. The Grand Canyon was so called 1871 by Maj. John Wesley Powell, scientific adventurer, who explored it; earlier it had been known as Big Canyon.
  • adj impressive, great
  • adj most important
Example sentences :
  • "Men say it is not so grand as the statue of Zeus, that we have at Olympia," replied the boy.
  • Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
  • And jest when I was lookin' forward to luxury and palaces in England, and everything so grand!
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • The French were the grand improvers of every thing, though only for their own objects.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
  • But light and motion and a grand future are waiting for such as he.
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • I am one of those who have been into the house, and have found my father—oh, so grand!
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • Yet, as she stooped, she made her final, grand sacrifice—Mart should go!
  • Extract from : « Ester Ried Yet Speaking » by Isabella Alden
  • Grand and beautiful as she is to others, to him she is still his little Nelly.
  • Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark
  • The scenery before the gorge of the river is reached is gloomy, but grand.
  • Extract from : « The Story of the Malakand Field Force » by Sir Winston S. Churchill
  • We stood off a piece, and sailed around it and over it, and it was just grand.
  • Extract from : « Tom Sawyer Abroad » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
  • One would think he was the Emperor what's his name, or the Grand Turk.
  • Extract from : « The Boy Life of Napoleon » by Eugenie Foa

Synonyms for grand

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