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grant
English
Alternative forms
- graunt (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English granten, graunten, grantien, grauntien, from Anglo-Norman granter, graunter, from Old French granter, graunter, graanter, greanter (“to promise, assure, guarantee, confirm, ratify”), from a merger of Old French garantir, guarantir (“to guarantee, assure, vouch for”) (see English guarantee) and earlier cranter, craanter, creanter (“to allow, permit”), from an assumed Medieval Latin *credent?re, from Latin credere (“to believe, trust”). More at guarantee, credit.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /????nt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??ænt/
- (Mid-Atlantic Accent) IPA(key): /???nt/
- Rhymes: -ænt, -??nt
Verb
grant (third-person singular simple present grants, present participle granting, simple past and past participle granted)
- (ditransitive) to give (permission or wish)
- (ditransitive) To bestow or confer, with or without compensation, particularly in answer to prayer or request; to give.(Can we add an example for this sense?)
- 1668 July 3, James Dalrymple, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Hou?toun” in The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 548:
- He Su?pends on the?e Rea?ons, that Thomas Rue had granted a general Di?charge to Adam Mu?het, who was his Conjunct, and correus debendi, after the alleadged Service, which Di?charged Mu?het, and con?equently Houstoun his Partner.
- 1668 July 3, James Dalrymple, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Hou?toun” in The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 548:
- (transitive) To agree with (someone) on (something); to accept (something) for the sake of argument; to admit to (someone) that (something) is true.
- Synonyms: concur, concede, allow
- a. 1921, George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah, Preface ("The Infidel Half Century"), section "In Quest of the First Cause":
- The universe exists, said the father: somebody must have made it. If that somebody exists, said I, somebody must have made him. I grant that for the sake of argument, said the Oratorian.
- (intransitive) To assent; to consent.
Translations
Noun
grant (plural grants)
- The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; allowance; permission.
- The yielding or admission of something in dispute.
- The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon.
- (law) A transfer of property by deed or writing; especially, an appropriation or conveyance made by the government.
- The deed or writing by which such a transfer is made.
- (informal) An application for a grant (monetary boon to aid research or the like).
Translations
Anagrams
- Trang
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [??rant]
Noun
grant m
- grant (the thing or property granted; a gift; a boon)
Derived terms
- grantový
Related terms
- See krédo
Further reading
- grant in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- grant in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz
Franco-Provençal
Alternative forms
- grand
Etymology
From Latin grandis, grandem.
Adjective
grant m (feminine singular grant or granta, masculine plural grants, feminine plural grants or grantes)
- big, large
Derived terms
Friulian
Alternative forms
- grand (alternative orthography)
Etymology
From Latin grandis, grandem.
Adjective
grant
- big, large
Middle French
Adjective
grant m or f (plural grans)
- (early Middle French) Alternative form of grand
Norwegian Nynorsk
Adjective
grant
- neuter singular of grann
Old French
Etymology
From Latin grandis, grandem.
Adjective
grant m (oblique and nominative feminine singular grant or grande)
- big, large
Declension
Descendants
- Middle French: grand
- French: grand
- Norman: grand
- Picard: grand
- ? English: grand
Old Spanish
Alternative forms
- grand (alternative spelling)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [??ãnt], [??ãn]
Adjective
grant m or f (plural grandes)
- Apocopic form of grande; great; big; large.
- c. 1200: Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 18r.
- Fue el dia ?cero al alba dela man. ¬ vin?er? truenos ¬ rel?pagos ¬ nuf gr?t ?obrel m?t.
- On the morning of the third day there came thunder and flashes of lightning and a great cloud upon the mountain.
- Fue el dia ?cero al alba dela man. ¬ vin?er? truenos ¬ rel?pagos ¬ nuf gr?t ?obrel m?t.
- c. 1200: Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 18r.
Descendants
- Spanish: gran
Swedish
Adjective
grant
- absolute indefinite neuter form of grann.
grant From the web:
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alms
English
Etymology
From Middle English almes, almesse, ælmesse, from Old English ælmesse, from Proto-West Germanic *alimosina, a borrowing from Vulgar Latin *alemosyna, from Late Latin ele?mosyna, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (ele?mosún?, “alms”), from ????? (eleé?, “I have mercy”), from ????? (éleos, “mercy”). Compare Saterland Frisian Aalmoose (“alms”), Dutch aalmoes (“alms”), German Almosen (“alms”). Doublet of eleemosynary.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??mz/
- (US) IPA(key): /?mz/, /?lmz/
- Rhymes: -??mz
- Homophone: arms (non-rhotic accents)
Noun
alms (plural alms)
- Something given to the poor as charity, such as money, clothing or food.
- She gave $10 weekly to the poor as alms.
- Alms are distributed from the weekly collection for the purpose.
- c. 1779, Alban Butler, Lives of the Saints
- St. Antoninus never refused an alms which was asked in the name of God.
Derived terms
- almsgiver
- almsgiving
Related terms
- eleemosynary
Descendants
- Gullah: aa'ms
Translations
Anagrams
- AMLs, AMSL, LAMs, Lams, MASL, SAML, SLAM, lams, mals, masl, salm, slam
Swedish
Noun
alms
- indefinite genitive singular of alm
Anagrams
- mals, smal
alms From the web:
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- almshouses what are they
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