grand
English
/ɡɹænd/
adj
Definitions
- Of a large size or extent; great.
- Great in size, and fine or imposing in appearance or impression; illustrious, dignified, magnificent.
- Having higher rank or more dignity, size, or importance than other persons or things of the same name.
- Standing in the second or some more remote degree of parentage or descent.
- (Ireland) Fine; lovely.
- (music) Containing all the parts proper to a given form of composition.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English grand derived from graunt derived from Old French grant derived from Latin grandis (large, great, grand, grown up).
Origin
Latin
grandis
Gloss
large, great, grand, grown up
Kanji
大
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- grand prince English
- grandiflora English
- grandiose English
- grandiosely English
- grandioseness English
- grandiosity English
- grandly English
- grandmaster English
- grandmistress English
- grandness English
- grandorder English
- grandsome English
- grandstand English
- grandstander English
- grandstanding English
- great grandmaster English
- great-grand English
- master English
- mistress English
- order English
- prince English
- semigrand English
- stand English
- ungrand English
- ungrandiose English
- grandem, grandis Latin
- grandesco Latin
- grandiceps Latin
- grandicornis Latin
- grandifer Latin
- grandiflorus Latin
- grandifolius Latin
- grandimanus Latin
- grandior Latin
- grandis Latin
- granditer Latin
- pergrandis Latin
- vegrandis Latin
- grandios German
- grandioso Italian
- grandiose French
- grande Spanish, Castilian
- *gʰer- Proto-Indo-European
- grand Middle English
- grandur Old French
- granment Old French
- grant Old French
- grand Norman
- graund Norman
- grànd Norman
- grand Middle French
- gran Old Portuguese
- grande Old Portuguese
- grand Occitan
- graunt xno
- grande Ladino
- grand Walloon
- grand Bourguignon
- grando Istriot
- graund Gallo
- gaan Aukan