Meaning of grande | Babel Free
/ˈɡɹɑndeɪ/Definitions
Of a cup of coffee: smaller than venti but larger than tall, usually 16 ounces (~ 455 ml).
US, not-comparable
Examples
“Almost symbolically, Lopahin still plays the peasant and Lyubov the grande mistress.”
“A supremely happy family waved goodbye to an elderly grande dame and a namesake who had just enrolled in her first lesson in becoming a grande lady.[…]In Litchfield, Connecticut, the Hutchinson brothers rushed to tell the grande old dame her daughter was making history.”
“In Shannon O’Cork’s The Murder of Muriel Lake, which is about a Writers of Mystery Convention (aka MWA?), grande mistress Muriel Lake was murdered.”
“THIS GRANDE LADY IS DIS-TIN-GUISH-A-BLE IN HER DEMURE DELIVERIES. DELIGHTFUL AND DAZZLING, THE LADY IS DEFINITELY A DIVA.”
“That made eight deaths in a matter of a few days—all of them tied inexplicably to this “grande lady” herself—Meadowdale Prison.”
“Her silence now had the quality of the comfortable silences between friends, not the half-respectful, half-fearful types of a servant not spoken to by her grande mistress.”
“Annabella Kristina Ramona Toaltz was a grande name for a grande woman.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.