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grand (adj): important and large in degree

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Synonym: considerable, dignified, distinguished, glorious, great, important, impressive, large, magnificent, main, majestic, outstanding, prominent, sizable, stately. Antonym: petty, puny, trifling. Similar words: a grand, grant, grandfather, grandmother, immigrant, grandparent, grandchild, grab. Meaning: [grænd]  n. 1. the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 2. a piano with the strings on a horizontal harp-shaped frame; usually supported by three legs. adj. 1. of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope 2. of or befitting a lord 3. rich and superior in quality 4. extraordinarily good; used especially as intensifiers 5. of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style 6. large and impressive in physical size or extent 7. the most important and magnificent in adornment 8. used of a person’s appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person. 

Sentence Examples

You are the grand Poobah of it.

Because above her is Cyrus Miles… studio chairman and grand poobah.

Now you listen to me, Mister grand High Poobah of Upper Butt Crack.

I’m circling the 30th for a crucial dinner with Bernard Ornay. grand poobah of Delecom.

THE grand POOBAH’S INNER SANCTUM.

If we get the shooters, dump them in chino, let the salvadorans celebrate with a little shiv-fest, you think you could convince the salvadoran grand poobah to let that satisfy his blood lust?

Clay Davis was grand-juried today.

You know, like one of those clubs where they wear the grand Poobah hats and shit.

You’re under arrest for grand theft auto.

In two years, by negotiations and in battle field, he managed to get autonomy and become grand duke.

Meanwhile, all Paris ran to the theatre of grand Treteau to applaud the famous actor Valgrand in drama «The bloody Stain».

To play the role of the person sentenced to death in The Bloody Stain which triumphs every evening in the Theatre of grand Treteau, famous Valgrand makes with the biggest care its head of Gurn, murderer of lord Beltham.

Author and «grand prankster» Ken Kesey was a leading voice in the 60’s chorus extolling the virtues of LSD.

An intelligent young man wanted for housework… in a grand house at Hohenzollerndamm 117th

Yesterday when I answered you «»No»» for Count Vitelozzo I felt proud and secure, grand and joyful.

THE grand DUKE’S FINANCES

Don Esteban Paqueno (Adolphe Engers), its pitiful Secretary of Economy, and the earthly grand Duke’s gods:

«I must speak to the grand Duke!»

«His Highness, the grand Duke of Abacco, does not wish to speak to anyone!»

I have decided to become the grand Duchess of Abacco.

Yours, Olga, grand Duchess of Russia

«Never mind, gentlemen… I also have some unfinished business with the grand Duke of Abacco.»

«Your Highness, I wanted to… get a deferment from Marcowitz with the grand Duchess’ letter.»

«So, the letter, the grand Duchess’ letter, Marcowitz has it now?»

grand Duchess Olga — grand Duke Ramon —

Today, at the Stock Markets in London, Paris and Rome, 80 % of the grand Dukedom of Abacco’s public debt was purchased by an unknown buyer.

The grand Duke overthrown!

The grand Duke’s missing, possibly murdered.

For overthrowing the grand Duke all the people mentioned below will be paid 2.000 $.

Should the grand Duke lose his life, the pay will rise to 5.000 $.

«Yes,… this is the grand Duke Nicolai’s car, 200 powerhorses!»

«Friends to the grand Duke!»

«I hope you want to go to Abacco to help the grand Duke.»

«It’s a single engine… to the service of His Imperial Highness, the grand Duke Nicolai of Russia…»

Semjon Marcowitz, who can show recommendation from Her Imperial Highness, the grand Duchess Olga.

End of Chapter 5. Chapter 6 Heil the grand Duke!

«Let’s hang the grand Duke of Abacco!»

«… He’s the grand Duke!»

As true as I am the grand Duchess Olga,

«Are you the grand Duke of Abacco?»

Does the defendant’s attorney intend to produce the alleged witnesses, Mrs. O’Grady and her grand-daught?

First, it was an old woman and her grand-daughter.

Jacques Feyder, the author of «Le grand jeu»

The grand Touring Cinema!»

At the entrance to the grand Hotel

DIOTIMA DANCES THIS EVENING IN THE grand HOTEL

The two Vandeuvres horses participating in the «grand Prix».

Sentences starting with grand

• Grand old men there were, three thousand years ago! [6]
• Grand is the characteristic, in their conception, of some special animals called «heroes. [2]
• Grand Total, 205. [5]

Sentences ending with grand

• One sees it to better effect from below, or he must ascend it to the Jardin to know that it has deep crevasses, and is as treacherous as it is grand. [4]
• For Russian historians, strange and terrible to say, Napoleon—that most insignificant tool of history who never anywhere, even in exile, showed human dignity—Napoleon is the object of adulation and enthusiasm; he is grand. [2]
• How stately he looked; and tall and broad and grand. [5]
• But I thought it was grand. [5]
• But Agatha had heard him call, and in a great fright she wanted to know where she was, and asked to go home.—Serapion was really grand. [10]
• Once relieved, its form of government is saved to the world; its beloved history and cherished memories are vindicated, and its happy future fully assured and rendered inconceivably grand. [7]
• Riding down the cavernous vastness of the building through the rich lights streaming in long rays from the pictured windows—oh, there was never anything so grand! [5]
• There shall be an unparalleled execution, something wonderful, magnificent, grand! [10]
• Alpatych… Ah, Yakov Alpatych… Grand! [2]
• We stood off a piece, and sailed around it and over it, and it was just grand. [5]

Short sentences using grand

• The grand pilgrimage is over. [5]
• You see the grand result! [5]
• It was a grand dinner…. [6]
• She was a grand affair. [5]
• Those were grand days. [5]
• It’s just grand! [5]
• Napoleon le Grand! [2]
• Wasn’t it grand? [11]
• Grand! [2]

Sentences containing grand two or more times

• Then a great supper was got ready, and he sat very grand at the head of the table, but died quickly, when making a grand speech. [11]
• Dear fool, your hand Upon your lips—Oh let us once be grand, Grand as we were when treading royal ways. [11]
• To close our first day in Paris cheerfully and pleasantly, we now sought our grand room in the Grand Hotel du Louvre and climbed into our sumptuous bed to read and smoke—but alas! [5]

More example sentences with the word grand in them

• Emerson was sixty-three years old, the year I have referred to as that of the grand climacteric, when he read to his son the poem he called «Terminus,» beginning: «It is time to be old, To take in sail. [6]
• I was a year and a half in London and Sweden, in the hands of that grand old man, Mr. Kildren. [5]
• It means X Y Z and the grand finale! [11]
• Without this he would, no doubt, have done his best for the imperilled sisterhood, but it added to his enjoyment of the grand and dangerous rescue. [10]
• The grand total would have been twice as large, but the streets were very narrow, and hundreds who wanted to bid could not get within a block of the stand, and could not make themselves heard. [5]
• This is grand, worthy of her, and never have I loved her more tenderly. [10]
• He liked words—big words, fine words, grand words, rumbling, thundering, reverberating words; with sense attaching if it could be got in without marring the sound, but not otherwise. [5]
• No gentle, tender-hearted woman laughed like that; but she was grand, splendid, wonderful in her wrath. [10]
• The weary old woman had wanted to return home long before, but the command of the grand chamberlain compelled her to wait for Barbara and accompany her the short distance to the house. [10]
• Paris was crowded with people, from all about France, who came to get sight of the venerable dame, and it was a touching spectacle when she moved through these reverent wet-eyed multitudes on her way to the grand honors awaiting her at the cathedral. [5]
• I went, therefore, with peculiar interest, on the day that we rested at our grand hotel, to visit some new pleasure-grounds the citizens had been arranging for us, and which I had not yet seen. [6]
• And he walked with me till mornin’, carryin’ the fiddle under his arm, but wrapped in a beautiful velvet cloth, havin’ on it grand figures like the arms of a king or queen. [11]
• And so the Winged Lion of St. Mark, with the open Bible under his paw, is a favorite emblem in the grand old city. [5]
• Cipher it; you will see that it is a grand sum for a woman to earn in seven years. [5]
• Most of those who were out and about were going in the opposite direction; they meant to await the grand reception of Caracalla at the eastern end of the city, on his way from the Kanopic Gate to the Gate of the Sun. [10]
• Who was Grand, who was Well-Beloved, who was Desired, who was the Idol of the French, who was worthy to be called a King of the Citizens? [4]
• The older brother, who died as Grand Duke, continued his friendship for me while sovereign of his country. [10]
• Among the spectacles which he has shown them is one calculated to give them an idea of his peaceful intentions,-a grand review of cavalry and artillery at the Bois de Boulogne. [4]
• Following the procession, which he describes, came the grand ceremonies of welcome at Haverley’s Theatre. [5]
• If the truth were known, it would doubtless appear that rich plebeians grew too prominent in their affectation of patrician show on the Grand Canal, and required a wholesome snubbing. [5]
• That trip we went to Grand Gulf, from New Orleans, in four days (three hundred and forty miles); the ‘Eclipse’ and ‘Shotwell’ did it in one. [5]
• How grand and well-proportioned was the plan of this immense building through which the steward Keraunus, who returned with his fine curls complete all round, now led the Romans. [10]
• I know full well that many readers would be disappointed if I did not mention some of the grand places and bring in some of the great names that lend their lustre to London society. [6]
• They live right well at the Grand Duke Michael’s their breakfasts are not gorgeous but very excellent—and if Mike were to say the word I would go there and breakfast with him tomorrow. [5]
• In the afternoon we went to a tea at a very grand house, where, as my companion says in her diary, «it took full six men in red satin knee-breeches to let us in. [6]
• In due time we passed Grand Gulf and Rodney, of war fame, and reached Natchez, the last of the beautiful hill-cities—for Baton Rouge, yet to come, is not on a hill, but only on high ground. [5]
• Thus the glimpses we had of the grand panorama below were only fitful and unsatisfactory. [5]
• We are living, we are dwelling, in a grand and awful time; I’m glad I don’t write novels. [4]
• But so it was; and the consequence followed that Old Sarum, with all its grand recollections, is but a collection of mounds and hollows,—as much a tomb of its past as Birs Nimroud of that great city, Nineveh. [6]
• The Grand Duke was there because it suited him to be. [2]
• Close by us was the Grand Stand—tier on tier of dim thrones rising up toward the zenith. [5]
• I think there was no individual in the party whose brain was not teeming with thoughts and images and memories invoked by the grand history of the venerable city that lay before us, but still among them all was no «voice of them that wept. [5]
• Just as I was losing sight of the skirt of trees at Grand Pre, a gentleman in the dress of a rural clergyman left his seat, and complimented me with this remark: «I perceive, sir, that you are fond of reading. [4]
• My grand-uncle’s burial was grand and magnificent. [10]
• At first it was fun, such fun you cannot think, and I do not mind the heat; but when the great hunt had gone by I wanted to go to my grand mother and I was not allowed. [10]
• Richard Joseph Armour was fastidious, was not to be won at the grand gallop. [11]
• The Grand Duke was dressed in the handsome and showy uniform of a Cossack officer. [5]
• And so Pierre was delighted with his visit to his estates and quite recovered the philanthropic mood in which he had left Petersburg, and wrote enthusiastic letters to his «brother-instructor» as he called the Grand Master. [2]
• And so it was decided to send the letters and money by the Grand Duke’s courier to Boris and Boris was to forward them to Nicholas. [2]
• The Honorable Heth was Bijah’s creation, and a grand creation he was, as no one will doubt when they see him. [9]
• A thanksgiving service was arranged, Kutuzov was awarded the Grand Cross of Maria Theresa, and the whole army received rewards. [2]
• At first it was all beautiful and grand, and it seemed noble to search for those others who had gone into that land and never come back. [11]
• I think I was a little surprised to find that the grand Sultan of Turkey was a man of only ordinary size. [5]
• At eight there was a grand rustling of silks, and Mrs. and Miss Sprowle descended from their respective bowers or boudoirs. [6]
• By George, it was a grand night, a historical night. [5]
• Besides, the king was a brave man, and he had strength, and more than once he had laid his hand on the chest of the other, as one might on a grand animal. [11]
• Gaining the Grand Walk, I saw Mr. Marmaduke’s insignificant figure dodging fearfully among the roughs, whose hour it was. [9]
• Imagine the Grand Vizier in solemn council with the magnates of the realm, spelling his way through the hated newspaper, and finally delivering his profound decision: «This thing means mischief —it is too darkly, too suspiciously inoffensive—suppress it! [5]
• I found it very windy and uncomfortable on the more exposed parts of the grand stand, and was glad that I had taken a shawl with me, in which I wrapped myself as if I had been on shipboard. [6]
• Nil admirari is very well for a North American Indian and his degenerate successor, who has grown too grand to admire anything but himself, and takes a cynical pride in his stolid indifference to everything worth reverencing or honoring. [6]
• It would be very pleasant to strike hands with the Fremonters of Iowa, who have led the van so splendidly, in this grand charge which we hope and believe will end in a most glorious victory. [7]
• The astrologer, who very likely had never seen such delicacies before, poured out a beaker of red wine, drank it off, poured another, then began to eat with a grand appetite. [5]
• Then, passing through veil after veil of mystery, it told of a grand Seigneur whose boat was overturned in a whirlpool, and was saved by a little brown diver. [11]
• I wouldn’t be used to such grand people as the patriarchs and prophets, and I would be sheepish and tongue-tied in their company, and mighty glad to get out of it. [5]
• So they conveyed us to the Grand Hotel for a short time, and then saw us safely off to the station to take the train for Chester, where we arrived in due season, and soon found ourselves comfortably established at the Grosvenor Arms Hotel. [6]
• They dragged themselves upward in a worn and weary way, for they had been climbing steadily from the Grand Mulets, on the Glacier des Dossons, since three in the morning, and it was eleven, now. [5]
• I waked him up, and I reckoned it was going to be a grand surprise to him to see me again, but it warn’t. [5]
• While he marched up the steps of the Grand Stand, the choir struck up,— «The whole wide heaven groans, And waits to hear that voice. [5]
• The voyage thence up the Derwent Frith displays a grand succession of fairy visions, in its entire length elsewhere unequaled. [5]
• At the Grand Union, King was No. [4]
• Everything grand and unexpected, even unforeseen happiness, is alarming and bewildering. [10]
• He lined out two lines, everybody sung it, and it was kind of grand to hear it, there was so many of them and they done it in such a rousing way; then he lined out two more for them to sing—and so on. [5]
• This confronting of two civilizations is always a grand sensation to me; it is like cutting through the isthmus and letting the two oceans swim into each other’s laps. [6]
• After all the trouble, we could be certain of only one thing—the square-topped hill was the Acropolis, and the grand ruin that crowned it was the Parthenon, whose picture we knew in infancy in the school books. [5]
• We have never tried any other mode of being, or, if we have, we have forgotten all about it, whatever Wordsworth’s grand ode may tell us we remember. [6]
• And the family travelled in a coach as grand as Mr. Carvel’s own, with panels wreathed in flowers and a footman and outrider in livery, from which my aunt descended like a duchess. [9]
• Sure enough, he took it up and ran his eye along down to the grand total. [5]
• At Grand Tower, too, there was a railway; and another at Cape Girardeau. [5]
• Take a look, too, at my Vesalius,—not the Leyden edition, Doctor, but the one with the grand old original figures,—so good that they laid them to Titian. [6]
• His scheme was too grand for these feeble spirits. [10]
• But nothing is too grand for the American, in the way of titles. [6]
• The grand stand to which I was admitted was a little privileged republic. [6]
• If these lead to what the critics call art, it is all very well; but if not, that grand desideratum has no chance of being run after or caught. [14]
• I have smiled to think how grand his magnificent titular appendages sounded in his own ears and what a feeble tintinnabulation they made in mine. [6]
• Turn your head to the open air, for I go to light a cigarette, and if you breathe this way, there will be a grand explode. [11]
• The Thracian listened to the description of the new art struggling to present truth, as if these things were welcome surprises, grand revelations, for which she had waited with eager longing. [10]
• Some men go to the Avocat or the Cure with great things; but I have been a pilgrimage, I have sat on the grand jury. [11]
• I should like to see the display upon a grand stage, and enjoy it in a coup d’oeil. [4]
• It was easy to see that that was the grand feature of the expedition. [5]
• Then I said to one of the clerks who was reading: «Illustrious Vagrant, where is the Grand Turk? [5]
• This temple is to me like some grand epode, and the poet who composed it conceived it not in feeble words but formed it out of almost immovable masses. [10]
• M’sieu’, you go to Mass, and all your teeth are sound; you have a dog-churn, also three feather-beds, and five rag carpets; you have sat on the grand jury. [11]
• And he wanted to know all about it right off, because it was a grand adventure, and mysterious, and so it hit him where he lived. [5]
• It would appeal to him on some grand scale, with real danger and, say, a few scores of thousands of pounds at stake—not unless. [11]
• What had seemed to him grand, lofty, and worthy of the exertion of all his strength on that night when he sat before the tent where lay the delirious Ephraim, to-day lay far behind him as idle and worthless. [10]
• Natasha was going to her first grand ball. [2]
• I instructed him to go to Hospenthal as quickly as possible, and make his grand start from there; to extend his foot expedition as far as the Giesbach fall, and return to me from thence by diligence or mule. [5]
• I shall try to get the whole of the Leicester administration, terminating with the grand drama of the Invincible Armada, into one volume; but I doubt, my materials are so enormous. [6]
• You’ll not have to feel any call to mention that debut in the Atlantic—they’ve made me pay the grand cash for my box!—a thing which most managers would be too worldly-wise to do, with journalistic folks. [5]
• They wanted me to come in and spend an evening, after the banquet, with them and Gen. Grant, after this grand pow-wow is over, but I said I was going home Friday. [5]
• However, there was to be something quite unusually grand in the Circus to-night. [10]
• The silver had to be rubbed; also the grand plated urn,—her mother’s before hers,—style of the Empire,—looking as if it might have been made to hold the Major’s ashes. [6]
• It is grand to be eloquent like that, not in words, but in person. [11]
• I am going to a grand house, where no one will be admitted who does not look worthy of people of mark. [10]
• I looked several times at Juste Duvarney, who sat not far away, on the other side of the table, behind a grand piece of silver filled with October roses. [11]
• There were grand times and rejoicings at Hendon village when the couple paid their first visit to the Hall. [5]
• From time to time the Grand Vizier sends a notice to the various editors that the Cretan insurrection is entirely suppressed, and although that editor knows better, he still has to print the notice. [5]
• We wandered, also, through the Grand Trianon and the Petit Trianon, those monuments of royal prodigality, and with histories so mournful—filled, as it is, with souvenirs of Napoleon the First, and three dead kings and as many queens. [5]
• We could hear through the door the good priest’s voice in prayer and benediction, pronouncing absolution over the dying man, and at times my grand uncle’s wrathful tones, feeble indeed, but terrible to hear. [10]
• He resumed the thread of his gossip— «Sir Hugh goeth to the coronation—and with grand hopes. [5]

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