Meaning of grandee | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A high-ranking nobleman in Spain or Portugal.
2. A person of high rank.
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Examples

“Grandees of Spain are of two sorts, this Honour being sometimes personal, sometimes hereditary. The first, the King bids be covered themselves; the second, themselves and Heirs for ever. This is all the Ceremony in making a Grandee, neither do any other priviledges belong⟳ to it; so that it is but a Chimerical and Airy Honour, without any profit; they which marry⟳ the Heiress of a Family of a Grandee of Spain, that is such hereditarily, become⟳ Grandees in right of their Wives.”

“I indicated a chair, and he sat down. This grandee was the grandson of an American of considerable note⟳ in his day, and not wholly forgotten yet,—a man who came so near being a great man that he was quite generally accounted one while he lived.”

“Whereupon most did desist; but some, secreting their cigars in the hollow of their hands, took whiffs by stealth, and blushed to find⟳ it fame; while others, who were such grandees and big pots that their own⟳ convenience was the first and foremost desideratum, continued to smoke⟳ with lordliness and indifference.”

“For some DSA grandees, like⟳ NYC chapter co-chair Bianca Cunningham, socialism means a planned economy that replaces market capitalism.”

“It is hard to see⟳ a good ending to the story of Peng Shuai, a Chinese tennis champion who on November 2nd accused a former Communist Party grandee more than twice her age of subjecting her to a coercive sexual relationship.”

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