word-vault/dist/data/cards/gr/grand.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "grand",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "impressive and large or important",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "It's not a very grand house."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The wedding was a very grand occasion."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The book dares to take on grand themes in the grand manner."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Buildings"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "used in the names of impressive or very large buildings, etc.",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the Grand Canyon"
                },
                {
                    "text": "We stayed at the Grand Hotel."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "needing a lot of effort, money or time to succeed but intended to achieve impressive results",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a **grand plan/strategy/scheme**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The gallery had its **grand opening** on 18 January."
                },
                {
                    "text": "New Yorkers built their city **on a grand scale**."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Success"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "used to describe the largest or most important item of its kind",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The film won the **grand prize** at the Berlin Film Festival."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Tomorrow is the **grand final** with just 12 contestants left from the hundreds who entered."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "behaving in a proud way because they are rich or from a high social class",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "They're all Lord or Lady somebody or other, but they're not at all grand."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She put on her grandest air and waltzed into the living room to join the others."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 6,
            "definition": "very good or great fun; excellent",
            "labels": "(dialect or informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I had a grand day out at the seaside."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Thanks. That'll be grand!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Fred did a grand job of painting the house."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 7,
            "definition": "used in the titles of people of very high social rank",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the Grand Duchess Elena"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a great age",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She finally learned to drive at the grand old age of 70."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a man who is respected in a particular profession that he has been involved in for a long time",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "James Lovelock, the grand old man of environmental science"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɡrænd/",
                "audio": "gr/grand/grand__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɡrænd/",
                "audio": "gr/grand/grand__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old French grant, grand, from Latin grandis ‘full-grown, big, great’. The original uses were to denote family relationships and as a title (the Grand, translating Old French le Grand); hence the senses ‘of the highest rank’, ‘of great importance’."
}