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grand

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1. grand - Noun

2. grand - Adjective

4. grand - Adjective Satellite

5. Grand - Proper noun

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Of large size or extent; great; extensive; hence, relatively great; greatest; chief; principal; as, a grand mountain; a grand army; a grand mistake.

Great in size, and fine or imposing in appearance or impression; illustrious, dignifled, or noble (said of persons); majestic, splendid, magnificent, or sublime (said of things); as, a grand monarch; a grand lord; a grand general; a grand view; a grand conception.

Having higher rank or more dignity, size, or importance than other persons or things of the same name; as, a grand lodge; a grand vizier; a grand piano, etc.

Standing in the second or some more remote degree of parentage or descent; -- generalIy used in composition; as, grandfather, grandson, grandchild, etc.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy. Marshall McLuhan

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. Agatha Christie

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there. F. Scott Fitzgerald

A man that begets a barren cannot have a grand child. Nigerian Proverb

God never says no to grand thoughts. Finnish Proverb

A grand eloquence, little conscience. Spanish Proverb

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