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grand
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??ænd/
- Rhymes: -ænd
Etymology 1
From Middle English grand, grond, graund, graunt, from Anglo-Norman graunt, from Old French grant, from Latin grandis. Doublet of grande and grandee.
Alternative forms
- grande
Adjective
grand (comparative grander or more grand, superlative grandest or most grand)
- Of a large size or extent; great.
- a grand mountain
- a grand army
- a grand mistake
- Great in size, and fine or imposing in appearance or impression; illustrious, dignified, magnificent.
- a grand monarch
- a grand view
- His simple vision has transformed into something far more grand.
- Having higher rank or more dignity, size, or importance than other persons or things of the same name.
- a grand lodge
- a grand vizier
- a grand piano
- The Grand Viziers of the Ottoman Empire.
- (usually in compound forms) Standing in the second or some more remote degree of parentage or descent (see grand-).
- grandfather, grandson, grand-child
- (Ireland, Northern England, colloquial, otherwise dated) Fine; lovely.
- (music) Containing all the parts proper to a given form of composition.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Noun
grand (plural grands or grand)
- (plural "grand") A thousand of some unit of currency, such as dollars or pounds. (Compare G.)
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:grand.
- (music, plural "grands") A grand piano
Translations
Etymology 2
From granddaughter, grandfather, grandmother, grandson, etc.
Noun
grand (plural grands)
- A grandparent or grandchild.
- 1987, Toni Morrison, Beloved, page 269:
- Once, in Maryland, he met four families of slaves who had all been together for a hundred years: great-grands, grands, mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles, cousins, children.
- 2012, Brenda Jackson, Texas Wild & Beyond Temptation, page 47:
- Her granddaughter and great-granddaughter went with us as chaperones. Did I ever tell you that she had six grands and two great-grands? […] And Emily agrees with me it's a shame that I don't even have a grand.
- 1987, Toni Morrison, Beloved, page 269:
Further reading
- grand in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- DRAGN
Bourguignon
Etymology
From Latin grandis.
Adjective
grand (feminine grand or grande, masculine plural grands, feminine plural grands or grandes)
- big
French
Etymology
From Middle French grand, from Old French grant, from Latin grandis, grandem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /????/, (followed by vowel or h muet) /????.t?/
Adjective
grand (feminine singular grande, masculine plural grands, feminine plural grandes)
- big, great, grand
- tall
- (usually capitalized) Great, an honorific title
- great; big fat; an intensifier
- extensive, large
Derived terms
See also
- grand-mère
- grand-père
- grand-chose
Further reading
- “grand” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Friulian
Alternative forms
- grant (standard orthography)
Adjective
grand
- Alternative form of grant
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse grand (“injury, hurt”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /krant/
- Rhymes: -ant
Noun
grand n (genitive singular grands, nominative plural grönd)
- damage, harm, destruction
- (card games) absence of trump cards/suits
Declension
Synonyms
- mein
- skaði
- óskundi
Related terms
- granda
Middle French
Alternative forms
- grant
Etymology
From Old French grant, from Latin grandis, grandem.
Adjective
grand m (feminine singular grande, masculine plural grands, feminine plural grandes) (comparative greigneur, superlative greigneur)
- big; large
Descendants
- French: grand
Norman
Alternative forms
- grànd (Guernsey)
Etymology
From Old French grant, from Latin grandis, grandem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?r??/, /?r??/
- (Jersey)
Adjective
grand m
- (Jersey) big
Derived terms
Occitan
Etymology
From Latin grandis.
Adjective
grand m (feminine singular granda, masculine plural grands, feminine plural grandas)
- big, large
- Antonyms: pichon, petit
Derived terms
- grandament
- grandàs
- grandesa
Further reading
- Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians, 2 edition, ?ISBN, page 538.
Romansch
Alternative forms
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) grond
- (Sutsilvan) grànd
Etymology
From Latin grandis, grandem.
Adjective
grand m (feminine singular granda, masculine plural grands, feminine plural grandas)
- (Puter) big, large
- (Puter) tall
Swedish
Noun
grand n
- a mote, a speck, something very small and unimportant
Usage notes
- The form grann is used in the adverb litegrann (“a bit”), which in older texts can be written litet grand.
- Phrases like vi åt lunch på Grand, refer to a "Grand Hotel" available in several towns
Declension
Walloon
Etymology
From Old French grant, from Latin grandis, grandem.
Adjective
grand m (feminine singular grande, masculine plural grands, feminine plural grandes, feminine plural (before noun) grandès)
- large, big
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divine
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: d?-v?n?, IPA(key): /d??va?n/
- Rhymes: -a?n
Etymology 1
From Old French divin, from Latin d?v?nus (“of a god”), from divus (“god”).
Adjective
divine (comparative more divine, superlative most divine)
- Of or pertaining to a god.
- Eternal, holy, or otherwise godlike.
- Of superhuman or surpassing excellence.
- Beautiful, heavenly.
- (obsolete) Foreboding; prescient.
- (obsolete, of souls) immortal; elect or saved after death
- 1632, Thomas Heywood, The Iron Age, Part 2:
- (Of that at lea?ure) but the bloody ?tage
On which to act, Generall this night is thine,
Thou lye?t downe mortall, who mu?t ri?e diuine.
- (Of that at lea?ure) but the bloody ?tage
- 1632, Thomas Heywood, The Iron Age, Part 2:
- Relating to divinity or theology.
- church history and other divine learning
Synonyms
- (of or pertaining to a god): deific, godlike, godly
- (eternal, holy): hallowed, holy, sacred
- (of superhuman or surpassing excellence): supreme, ultimate
- (beautiful, heavenly): beautiful, delightful, exquisite, heavenly, lovely, magnificent, marvellous/marvelous, splendid, wonderful
Antonyms
- (of or pertaining to a god): undivine, ungodly
- (eternal, holy): godless, secular, ungodly
- (of superhuman or surpassing excellence): humdrum, mediocre, ordinary
- (beautiful, heavenly): horrible, horrid, nasty, unpleasant
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
divine (plural divines)
- One skilled in divinity; a theologian.
- 1668, John Denham, The Progress of Learning
- Poets were the first divines.
- 1668, John Denham, The Progress of Learning
- A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.
- December 22, 1820, John Woodbridge, Sermon preached in Hadley in commemoration of the landing our fathers at Plymouth
- The first divines of New England […] were surpassed by none in extensive erudition.
- December 22, 1820, John Woodbridge, Sermon preached in Hadley in commemoration of the landing our fathers at Plymouth
- (often capitalized, with 'the') God or a god, particularly in its aspect as a transcendental concept.
Synonyms
- (theologian, cleric): clergyman, cleric, man of the cloth, theologian
- (a deity): deity, god, God, Allah (Muslim)
Derived terms
- archdivine
- school-divine
Translations
Etymology 2
Replaced Middle English devine, devin from Middle French deviner, from Latin d?v?n?.
Verb
divine (third-person singular simple present divines, present participle divining, simple past and past participle divined)
- (transitive) To foretell (something), especially by the use of divination.
- 1834-1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.
- a sagacity which divined the evil designs
- 1834-1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.
- (transitive) To guess or discover (something) through intuition or insight.
- 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night
- no secret can be told
To any who divined it not before
- no secret can be told
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 43
- If in the loneliness of his studio he wrestled desperately with the Angel of the Lord he never allowed a soul to divine his anguish.
- 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 250c.
- I suppose that we truly are divining that what is is some third thing when we say that change and stability are.
- 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night
- (transitive) To search for (underground objects or water) using a divining rod.
- To render divine; to deify.
- c. 1591-1592, Edmund Spenser, Daphnaïda. An Elegy upon the Death of the Noble and Vertuous Douglas Howard, Daughter and Heire of Henry Lord Howard, Viscount Byndon, and Wife of Arthure Gorges Esquier
- Living on earth like angel new divined.
- c. 1591-1592, Edmund Spenser, Daphnaïda. An Elegy upon the Death of the Noble and Vertuous Douglas Howard, Daughter and Heire of Henry Lord Howard, Viscount Byndon, and Wife of Arthure Gorges Esquier
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Related terms
- a lo divino
- baculus divinatorius
- divinistre
- Divinópolis
- Divinópolis de Goiás
- La Divina
- lectio divina
- Liposcelis divinatorius
- Salvia divinorum
- São José do Divino
- virgula divina
- voce divinare
Anagrams
- dive in
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /di.vin/
- Rhymes: -in
Adjective
divine
- feminine singular of divin
Italian
Adjective
divine
- feminine plural of divino
Latin
Etymology
From d?v?nus (“of divine origin”)
Adverb
d?v?n? (comparative d?v?nius, superlative d?v?nissim?)
- prophetically, by divine inspiration
- divinely, admirably
Synonyms
- (divinely, admirably): d?v?nitus
Related terms
- d?v?n?ti?
- d?v?nit?s
- d?v?nitus
- d?v?n?
- d?v?nus
References
- divine in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- divine in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- divine in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, 1st edition. (Oxford University Press)
Spanish
Verb
divine
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of divinar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of divinar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of divinar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of divinar.
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