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say it: grand
grand is an adjective and noun meaning "of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope". It is pronounced /ˈɡɹænd/ — grand. It carries 10 recorded senses.
of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope
“an expansive lifestyle”
“in the grand manner”
“collecting on a grand scale”
“heroic undertakings”
extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers
“a fantastic trip to the Orient”
“the film was fantastic!”
“a howling success”
“a marvelous collection of rare books”
“had a rattling conversation about politics”
“a tremendous achievement”
of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style
“an exalted ideal”
“argue in terms of high-flown ideals”
“a noble and lofty concept”
“a grand purpose”
used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person
“his distinguished bearing”
“the monarch's imposing presence”
“she reigned in magisterial beauty”
a piano with the strings on a horizontal harp-shaped frame; usually supported by three legs
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for grand come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.