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(plural "grand") A thousand of some unit of currency, such as dollars or pounds. (Compare G.)
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(plural "grands") A grand piano
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Of a large size or extent; great.
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a grand army
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Great in size, and fine or imposing in appearance or impression; illustrious, dignified, magnificent.
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His simple vision has transformed into something far more grand.
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Having higher rank or more dignity, size, or importance than other persons or things of the same name.
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The Grand Viziers of the Ottoman Empire.
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(usually in compound forms) Standing in the second or some more remote degree of parentage or descent.
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grandfather, grandson, grand-child
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Fine; lovely.
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A cup of tea? That'd be grand.
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Containing all the parts proper to a given form of composition.
Examples of grand in a Sentence
I had grand plans to build and run a large-scale horse ranch.
They're going back to Grand Junction tonight.
Visit the Grand Canyon, travel to Scotland, hot air balloon ride.
The grand opening was attended with party-like anticipation by everyone staying at the inn.
For all she knew, the Grand Canyon was on the other side.
Natasha was going to her first grand ball.
The next day twenty men and boys came together for the grand wolf hunt.
In history he is often called the Grand Monarch.
Wynn trotted down the grand staircase, keys in one hand and jacket in the other.
She worked as a guard at Cañon City and then as a cop up in Grand Junction.
Grand is good, not grand is bad.
It is served by the Grand Trunk railway and by two electric lines to Detroit.
Fuerteventura lies between Lanzarote and Grand Canary.
He accepted, and on the Toth of January 1849, induced the grand duke to establish a national constituent assembly.
It is Sunday morning, and while I sit here in the library writing this letter you are teaching hundreds of people some of the grand and beautiful things about their heavenly Father.
She was furious and so hurt, she wished she'd jumped into the Grand Canyon like she originally planned.
Zeb was also escorted to a room--so grand and beautiful that he almost feared to sit in the chairs or lie upon the bed, lest he might dim their splendor.
The grand necessity, then, for our bodies, is to keep warm, to keep the vital heat in us.
So this was Ryland's "Fran", his Grand Junction fiancée.
Ryland and Donnie passed me on the way to Grand Junction.
And we were wondering if we could take Martha back to Grand Junction with us today?
This question was solemnly submitted to a grand council of prelates, senators, ministers and other dignitaries on the 13th of June 1718.
She plans to move up to Grand Junction, so Donnie can be near me.
The principal buildings which remain are the church of St John, which is become the principal mosque; the hospital, which has been transformed into public granaries; the palace of the grand master, now the residence of the pasha; and the senate-house, which still contains some marbles and ancient columns.
Ryland listed his address as Grand Junction, Colorado and indicated he'd stay at least through the weekend when the ice climbing festivities began in earnest.
It wasn't a grand place, but it was a mansion next to what she was accustomed to.
After being educated at Cracow, he made the grand tour with his brother Mark and returned to Poland in 1648.
The nucleus of the city is built on a ridge of rock (Mount Sceberras) which runs like a tongue into the middle of a bay, which it thus divides into two harbours, the Grand Harbour to the east and the Marsamuschetto to the west, which are subdivided again by three other peninsulas into creeks.
At Paris is the central consistory, controlled by the government and presided over by the supreme grand rabbi.
When Bulgaria under the Berlin Treaty was constituted an autonomous principality under the suzerainty of Turkey, the tsar recommended his nephew to the Bulgarians as a candidate for the newly created throne, and Prince Alexander was elected prince of Bulgaria by unanimous vote of the Grand Sobranye (April 29, 1879).
The wall of Herod Agrippa was planned on a grand scale, but its execution was stopped by the Romans, so that it was not completed at the time of the siege of Jerusalem by Titus.
In 1667 Theophile de Besiade, marquis d'Avaray, obtained the office of grand bailiff of Orleans, which was held by several of his descendants after him.
With the exception of Wangeroog, which belongs to the grand duchy of Oldenburg, the East Frisian Islands belong to Prussia.
It was upon that occasion that Gambetta bestowed upon him the title of Le Grand Frangais.
The first was the appointment of a grand council with supreme judicial and financial functions P 7 ?
The belfry on the Grand Place was built in 1187, partly reconstructed in 1391 and finally restored and endowed with a steeple in 1852.
On the Grand Place is the fine statue of Christine de Lalaing, princess d'Epinoy, who defended Tournai against Parma in 1581.
In 1631 the spahis of Asia Minor rose in revolt, in protest against the deposition of the grand vizier Khosrev; their representatives crowded to Constantinople, stoned the new grand vizier, Hafiz, in the court of the palace, and pursued the sultan himself into the inner apartments, clamouring for seventeen heads of his advisers and favourites, on penalty of his own deposition.
On Isle La Motte, Grand Isle county, there are marble quarries, the characteristic colours of the marble being "Fisk black" and "Fisk grey."
The public buildings of chief interest are the kasbah, the government offices (formerly the British consulate), the palaces of the governor-general and the archbishop - all these are fine Moorish houses; the "Grand" and the "New" Mosques, the Roman Catholic cathedral of St Philippe, the church of the Holy Trinity (Church of England), and the Bibliotheque Nationale d'Alger - a Turkish palace built in 1799-1800.
The Grand Mosque (Jamaa-el-Kebir) is traditionally said to be the oldest mosque in Algiers.
According to Clarendon he told the latter in 1641 that if the Grand Remonstrance had not passed "he would have sold all he had the next morning and never have seen England more."
He supported stoutly the extreme party of opposition to the king, but did not take the lead except on a few less important occasions, and was apparently silent in the debates on the Petition of Right, the Grand Remonstrance and the Militia.
Cromwell therefore did not hesitate to join the army in its opposition to the parliament, and supported the Remonstrance of the troops (loth of November 1648), which included the demand for the king's punishment as "the grand author of all our troubles," and justified the use of force by the army if other means failed.
Not merely as exemplifying the tactical envelopment, but also as embodying the central idea of grand strategy, was Worcester the prototype of Sedan.
It is served by the Grand Trunk, the New York, Chicago & St Louis, and the Pennsylvania railways.
Debts separately inscribed in the Grand Livre 10,042,027
In 1032 be was obliged to act in concert with a senate, called pregadi; and in 1172 the grand council, which became the real sovereign of the state, was formed.
The several steps whereby the members of the grand council succeeded in eliminating the people from a share in the government, and reducing the doge to the position of their ornamental representative, cannot here be described.
Murat, left in command of the Grand Army at of ?VapoVilna, abandoned his charge and in the next year made Icons overtures to the allies who coalesced against Napoleon.