noun
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The state of being grand or splendid; magnificence.
definition
Nobility (state of being noble).
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Greatness; largeness; tallness; loftiness.
Examples of grandeur in a Sentence
I liked the simple, wild grandeur of the palisades.
I could not resist the sight of the grandeur and glory with which he has covered France.
The view from the summit overlooking Table Bay is also one of much grandeur.
The picturesque appearance of the village, with its quays and little harbour, and the grandeur of the cliffs and moorland scenery towards Land's End, make Newlyn an attractive spot.
It contains two churches and a monastery, the Kasa Kilissa, famous for its antiquity and architectural grandeur.
In the earlier chansons de geste he is invariably a majestic figure and represents within limitations the grandeur of the historic Charles.
The power and grandeur of these nocturnal concerts is inconceivably striking and pleasing to the hunter's ear."
The city used to be the extensive, splendid and opulent capital of an independent sovereignty of the same name, but now retains only the vestiges of its former grandeur.
The scenery of Dharmsala is of peculiar grandeur.
But soon the partial or total conquest of the Spanish inheritance proved the grandeur of his beginnings and the meanness of his end.
She built for him, in Halicarnassus, a very magnificent tomb, called the Mausoleum, which was one of the seven wonders of the world, and from which the name mausoleum was afterwards given to all tombs remarkable for their grandeur.
The general aspect of the county is mountainous, and the scenery is marked by beauty and grandeur.
By far the greater part of the high plateau district is drained by the Colorado river and its branches, the most important of which are the Green, Grand and San Juan, portions of whose courses lie in canyons of remarkable grandeur.
In the 18th century it passed through the hands of various proprietors and was ultimately shorn of much of its original size and grandeur.
The scenery through which they flow is often of great beauty and grandeur.
Except, however, in the case of the successful attack on Tunis in 1535, and the attempt to take Algiers in 1541, his actions were not inspired by any regard for the interests of his Spanish kingdoms. He treated them simply as instruments to promote the grandeur of his house.
Her restored Edwardian grandeur is both welcoming and inviting.
A 19th century style has mostly been retained, with its fading grandeur providing a romantic setting.
Amongst the most marked features of the change that has taken place since 1875 are the growth of religious and philanthropic establishments; the settlement of Jewish colonies from Bokhara, Yemen and Europe; the migration of Europeans, old Moslem families, and Jews from the city to the suburbs; the increased vegetation, due to the numerous gardens and improved methods of cultivation; the substitution of timber and red tiles for the vaulted stone roofs which were so characteristic of the old city; the striking want of beauty, grandeur, and harmony with their environment exhibited by most of the new buildings; and the introduction of wheeled transport, which, cutting into the soft limestone, has produced mud and dust to an extent previously unknown.
Toward the north appears the range of the Sidlaw hills, with the Grampians in the distance towering above them in majestic grandeur.
It stands out because of its sheer scenic grandeur.
The deep impression produced upon a sensitive mind by the silent and solemn grandeur of this mountain pass is indescribable.
Touring West End theater, ballet and opera comes to the Edwardian grandeur of His Majesty's Theater.
Along with the Himalayas only the Andes offers the scale of landscape and sheer mountain grandeur.
Giuseppe Mazzini, the radical ideologue of the Risorgimento, berated tourists for seeing only ancient grandeur where they should have seen suffering.
The hall of the house is impressive with two marble pillars giving an instant impression of grandeur.
Rather than grandeur moving you to worship as in a cathedral, here is a space where smallness and intimacy inspire a quiet reverence.
Brighton and Hove combine to offer Regency and Georgian grandeur, miles of Victorian seafront and social life opportunities rarely found outside central London.
Mr Slope, great as he was with embryo grandeur, still came to see the signora.
We then trek along the Wall, renovated to its original grandeur, and climb to the highest watchtower in this section.
The sub-tropical section is important from the value of its products and interesting from the grandeur and beauty of its scenery.
At almost every step, the stranger is regaled with a fresh display of architectural grandeur....
Salles films this in a documentary style that captures both the intense internal conflicts and the scenic grandeur of Latin America.
Christmas weddings are often laced with opulent grandeur, so small weddings with modest yet elegant touches are a welcome alternative for couples who enjoy the season but do not want to overwhelm the occasion.
Canopy beds are often associated with an old world sort of grandeur, and may conjure up images of Victorian-themed décors or, perhaps more commonly, a young girl's bedroom done in shades of pink and white.
Enchantment Of The Seas, Navigator of the Seas and Grandeur of the Seas embark upon this five night cruise.
Each vessel travels to Alaska's remote southeast region and gives passengers the chance to explore the grandeur found within the state's rugged Inside Passage.
Common delusions include delusions of persecution, delusions about one's importance (sometimes called delusions of grandeur), or delusions of being controlled by others.
She values sentimentality and simplicity over grandeur.
The residents built necropolises of astonishing grandeur and beauty.
Space opera is not the marriage of soap opera to science fiction, but rather incorporates the grandeur of the "opera" such as Wagner's Ring Cycle.
Her pink shorts were slung below a belly that topped her husband's in grandeur.
Even after the lapse of so great a time the city is still in its glory, and as seen from the river it presents a scene of great picturesqueness and grandeur.
To the south of this, also on the Tigris, is the serai or palace of the Turkish governor, distinguished rather for extent than grandeur.
With the capture of the city by the Mongols, under Hulagu (Hulaku), the grandson of Jenghiz Khan, in 1258, and the extinction of the Abbasid caliphate of Bagdad, its importance as the religious centre of Islam passed away, and it ceased to be a city of the first rank, although the glamour of its former grandeur still clung to it, so that even to-day in Turkish official documents it is called the "glorious city."
During the long tyranny of Dionysius the city grew greatly in size, population and grandeur.
His "grandeur in social function" was unequalled and his interests were very wide.
In the gth century, after the capital had been established at KiOto, the palace of the sovereigns and the mansions of ministers and nobles were built on a scale of unprecedented grandeur.
The higher poetical imagination had appeared only in Ennius, and had been called forth in him by sympathy with the grandeur of the national life and the great personal qualities of its representative men.
And, though he cannot unroll before us the page of heroic action with the power and majesty of Homer, yet by the sympathy with which he realizes the idea of Rome, and by the power with which he has used the details of tradition, of local scenes, of religious usage, to embody it, he has built up in the form of an epic poem the most enduring and the most artistically constructed monument of national grandeur.