Meaning of Grail | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The Holy Grail.
2. A book of offices in the Roman Catholic Church; a gradual.
3. Small particles of earth; gravel.
   poetic, uncountable
4. One of the small feathers of a hawk.
5. Initialism of Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
6. Something eagerly sought or quested for.

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Examples

“The quest for the Grail is not archeology. It's a race against evil. If it is captured by the Nazis, the armies of darkness will march all over the face of the earth. Do you understand me?”

“Becoming an astronaut was his grail.”

“How many of them had found the item they dreamt of, their personal grails?”

“antiphonals, missals, grails, processionals, etc.”

“Hereof this gentle knight vnweeting was, / And lying downe vpon the sandie graile, / Drunke of the streame, as cleare as cristall glas [...].”

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