Something that's grand is large and impressive. A fancy, catered birthday party with a guest list of hundreds could be described as grand.
Of large size or extent; great; extensive; hence, relatively great; greatest; chief; principal;
Noun
a piano with the strings on a harp-shaped frame; usually supported by 3 legs
Noun
the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
Adjective S.
impressive in scale; "an expansive lifestyle"; "in the grand manner"
Adjective S.
impressive in size or scope; "heroic undertakings"
Adjective S.
of or befitting a lord; "heir to a lordly fortune"; "of august lineage"
superl.
Of large size or extent; great; extensive; hence,
relatively great; greatest; chief; principal; as, a grand mountain; a
grand army; a grand mistake.
superl.
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.
superl.
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.
superl.
Standing in the second or some more remote degree of
parentage or descent; -- generalIy used in composition; as,
grandfather, grandson, grandchild, etc.
Grand
Making so bold . . . to unseal Their grand commission.2.
They are the highest models of expression, the unapproached masters of the grand style.3.
What cause Mov'd our grand parents, in that happy state, Favor'd of Heaven so highly, to fall off From their Creator.
Of large size or extent; great; extensive; hence, relatively great; greatest; chief; principal;
Usage Examples
I've spent as much as 30 grand on a watch but it's not about flaunting my wealth. I don't have many extravagances but watches are my biggest one. I must have 30 of them now. I've been collecting since the age of nine, when I won a black TAG in a karting event.
Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.
I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.
Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
I think violence, cynicism, brutality and fashion are the staples of our diet. I think in the grand history of story-telling, going back to people sitting around fires, the dark side of human nature has always been very important. Movies are part of that tradition.
A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness it teaches industry and thrift above all it teaches entire trust.
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Other Usage ExamplesIt is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
I'm an enormous admirer of Christopher Lee. He's somebody, along with Vincent Price, who I celebrate, and I wanted my movies to show that celebration and that honoring of these great film stars that were unafraid to go into horror and Grand Guignol and the macabre.
But like a born actor who only really wants to direct, Gingrich has always been unsatisfied with what he's brilliant at. He can't still his hunger to deliver grand pronouncements on life, liberalism, conservatism, religion and whatever else swims into his consciousness.
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.
All this technology for connection and what we really only know more about is how anonymous we are in the grand scheme of things.