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say it: GRAND-stand
grandstand is a noun and verb meaning "the audience at a stadium or racetrack". It carries 3 recorded senses.
the audience at a stadium or racetrack
a stand at a racecourse or stadium consisting of tiers with rows of individual seats that are under a protective roof
perform ostentatiously in order to impress the audience and with an eye to the applause
“She never misses a chance to grandstand”
performing arts
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 grandstand 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.