grand是什么意思_grand怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope;"an expansive lifestyle"
"in the grand manner"
"collecting on a grand scale"
"heroic undertakings"

of or befitting a lord;"heir to a lordly fortune"
"of august lineage"

rich and superior in quality;"a princely sum"
"gilded dining rooms"

extraordinarily good or great ; used especially as intensifiers;"a fantastic trip to the Orient"
"the film was fantastic!"
"a howling success"
"a marvelous collection of rare books"
"had a rattling conversation about politics"
"a tremendous achievement"

of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style;"an exalted ideal"
"argue in terms of high-flown ideals"
"a noble and lofty concept"
"a grand purpose"

large and impressive in physical size or extent;"the bridge is a grand structure"

the most important and magnificent in adornment;"grand ballroom"
"grand staircase"

used of a person"s appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person;"his distinguished bearing"
"the monarch"s imposing presence"
"she reigned in magisterial beauty"

中英词源

grand 壮丽的，堂皇的wWW.wEnTiyI.coM

来自拉丁文grandis, 巨大的，壮丽的，词源同great. 用做数字量词1000.

grand: grand: [16] The original Latin word for ‘big’ was magnus (as in magnify, magnitude, etc). However, it also had grandis. This not only denoted great physical size; it also had connotations of moral greatness or sublimity, and in addition often carried the specialized meaning ‘full-grown’. This last, together with a possibly etymologically connected Greek brénthos ‘pride’ and Old Church Slavonic gradi ‘breast’ suggest that its underlying meaning may be ‘swelling’.

French (grand) and Italian and Spanish (grande) have taken it over as their main adjective for ‘big’, but in English it remains a more specialized word, for things or people that are ‘great’ or ‘imposing’. Its use for denoting family relationships separated by two generations, as in grandmother, was adopted from Old French, and goes back, in the case of grandame and grandsire, to the 13th century, well before the independent adjective grand itself was borrowed.

But the underlying notion is as old as the Greeks and Romans, who used mégas and magnus in the same way.
grand (adj.): late 14c., grant "large, big" (early 12c. in surnames), from Anglo-French graunt and directly from Old French grant, grand (10c., Modern French grand) "large, tall; grown-up; great, powerful, important; strict, severe; extensive; numerous," from Latin grandis "big, great; full, abundant," also "full-grown;" figuratively "strong, powerful, weighty, severe," of unknown origin. In Vulgar Latin it supplanted magnus and continued in the Romanic languages. The connotations of "noble, sublime, lofty, dignified," etc., were in Latin. In English it developed a special sense of "imposing." Meaning "principal, chief, most important" (especially in titles) is from 1560s; that of "of very high or noble quality" is from 1712. As a general term of admiration, "magnificent, splendid," from 1816. Related: Grander; grandest.

Grand jury is late 15c. Grand piano from 1797. The grand tour of the principal sites of continental Europe, as part of a gentleman"s education, is attested by that name from 1660s. The Grand Canyon of the Colorado River in western U.S. was so called by 1869, popularized by Maj. John Wesley Powell, scientific adventurer, who explored it; earlier it had been known as Big Canyon. For grand slam see slam (n.2).
grand (n.): "thousand dollars," 1915, American English underworld slang, from grand (adj.).

词态变化

复数 grands;
比较级 grander;
最高级 grandest;
副词 grandly;
名词 grandness;

权威造句

1. Do you always have a bet on the Grand National?: 你总是对全国赛马大会下点注吗？

2. The intelligence service conceived a grand design to assassinate the War Minister.: 情报机构策划了一项暗杀陆军部长的重大计划。

3. President Najibullah said he would call a grand council of all Afghans.: 纳吉布拉总统称他将召开阿富汗全民大会。

4. The grand design of Europe"s monetary union is already agreed.: 欧洲统一货币的宏伟构想已经获得认同。

5. He was having a grand time meeting new sorts of people.: 结识形形色色的人让他很开心。

近反义词

magnificent

noble

splendid

相似短语

do the grand 装模作样,摆架子

grand average 总平均

grand ensemble 巨系综，巨系综

grand total 累计，总计，合计

grand guignol 大木偶剧场(巴黎以前一个专演恐怖戏的剧场

grand theft phr. 大窃盗罪(指所窃财物超过一定价值的盗窃)

grand dragon phr. 大龙头（美国三K党州组织的头目），大龙，喜盛龙，巨龙

grand national phr. 全国越野障碍赛马（举办于英国，每年一次）

grand marnier phr. 格林曼聂利口酒

grand sergeant 【法】大警官

单词分析

这些形容词均含“大的”之意。
big常用词，使用广泛，较口语化。多指体积、重量或容量等方面的“大”，有时也用于描写抽象之物。
large普通用词，含义广，指体积、面积、容量、数量以及程度等方面的大，具体或抽象意义均可用。
great普通用词，可指具体东西的“大”，但更常指事物的重要，人的行为、品格的伟大等，带一定的感情色彩。
grand侧重指盛大、绝大，有气派。

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