Search the Dictionary

See Golding.

A greedy or ravenous eater; a glutton. See Gormand. That great gourmand, fat Apicius B. Jonson.

or extent; great; extensive; hence, relatively great; greatest; chief; principal; as, a grand mountain; a grand army; a grand mistake. "Our grand foe, Satan." Milton. Making so bold . . . to unseal Their grand commission. Shak.

See Gramercy. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to a grand duke. H. James.

An old woman; specifically, a grandmother. Shak.

The aunt of one's father or mother.

A son's or daughter's child; a child in the second degree of descent.

The daughter of one's son or daughter.

A man of elevated rank or station; a nobleman. In Spain, a nobleman of the first rank, who may be covered in the king's presence.

The rank or estate of a grandee; lordship. H. Swinburne.

The state or quality of being grand; vastness; greatness; splendor; magnificence; stateliness; sublimity; dignity; elevation of thought or expression; nobility of action. Nor doth this grandeur and majestic show Of luxury . . . allure mine eye. Milton.

Great age; long life. [Obs.] Glanvill.

Of great age; aged; longlived. [R.] Bailey.

r's father; an ancestor in the next degree above the father or mother in lineal ascent. Grandfather longlegs. (Zoöl.) See Dady longlegs.

Like a grandfather in age or manner; kind; benignant; indulgent. He was a grandfatherly sort of personage. Hawthorne.

Making great. [R.] Bailey.

The use of lofty words or phrases; bombast; -- usually in a bad sense. The sin of grandiloquence or tall talking. Thackeray,

Speaking in a lofty style; pompous; bombastic.

Grandiloquent.