Synonyms for grand
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : grand |
| Phonetic Transcription : grænd |
Top 10 synonyms for grand Other synonyms for the word grand
- admirable
- august
- chief
- dynamite
- elevated
- eminent
- exalted
- excellent
- fab
- fine
- first-class
- first-rate
- grave
- haughty
- head
- highest
- illustrious
- leading
- main
- majestic
- marvelous
- mighty
- monumental
- noble
- opulent
- ostentatious
- outstanding
- palatial
- pompous
- preeminent
- pretentious
- principal
- regal
- rich
- smashing
- something else
- splendid
- stately
- striking
- sublime
- sumptuous
- super
- superb
- supreme
- terrific
- transcendent
- unreal
- very good
Définition 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
- "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
Antonyms for grand
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