Meaning of Grand | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A placename
   countable, uncountable
2. A commune in Vosges department, Grand Est, France.
   countable, uncountable
3. A thousand of some unit of currency, such as dollars or pounds. (Compare G.)
4. A grandparent or grandchild.
5. A ghost town (historic place) in Ellis County, Oklahoma, United States.
   countable, uncountable
6. A thousand RPM.
   colloquial
7. A surname.
   countable
8. A grand piano

Equivalents

Examples

“For quotations using this term, see Citations:grand.”

“One grand, two grand RPM”

“The engine, with more compression, carburetion, and cam timing than the Ambassador, could lounge comfortably below four grand and then rush to 7500 rpm, aided and abetted by a light flywheel and a close-ratio five-speed box.”

“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.”

“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.”

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