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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)

1. (ditransitive) to give (permission or wish)

2. (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.
3. (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.
4. (intransitive) To assent; to consent.

Translations

Noun

grant (plural grants)

1. The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; allowance; permission.
2. The yielding or admission of something in dispute.
3. The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon.

4. (law) A transfer of property by deed or writing; especially, an appropriation or conveyance made by the government.

5. The deed or writing by which such a transfer is made.
6. (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

1. 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)

1. big, large

Derived terms

Friulian

Alternative forms

• grand (alternative orthography)

Etymology

From Latin grandis, grandem.

Adjective

grant

1. big, large

Middle French

Adjective

grant m or f (plural grans)

1. (early Middle French) Alternative form of grand

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

grant

1. neuter singular of grann

Old French

Etymology

From Latin grandis, grandem.

Adjective

grant m (oblique and nominative feminine singular grant or grande)

1. 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)

1. 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.

Descendants

• Spanish: gran

Swedish

Adjective

grant

1. absolute indefinite neuter form of grann.

English

Etymology

From Middle English imparten, borrowed from Middle French impartir, empartir, from Late Latin imparti?, imperti?, from im- (“in”) + Latin parti? (“divide”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?p??t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?m?p???t/
• Rhymes: -??(r)t

Verb

impart (third-person singular simple present imparts, present participle imparting, simple past and past participle imparted)

1. (transitive) To give or bestow (e.g. a quality or property).

2. (transitive) To give a part or to share.

   Synonyms: bequeath, bestow, give; see also Thesaurus:give

   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book VIII, line 440

     Expressing well the spirit within thee [Adam] free, / My [God's] image, not imparted to the brute.
3. (transitive) To make known; to show (by speech, writing etc.).

   Synonyms: disclose, tell; see also Thesaurus:announce, Thesaurus:inform

   • 1662, John Dryden, letter to Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

     Well may he then to you his cares impart.
4. (intransitive) To hold a conference or consultation.
5. (transitive) To obtain a share of; to partake of.
   • c. 1587 Anthony Munday, John a Kent and John a Cumber

     Sweet Cossen, what we may not now impart, heere let vs bury it, closely in our hart

Translations

References

• impart at OneLook Dictionary Search
• impart in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Primat, arm pit, armpit