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gran⋅ite

  [gran-it]
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–noun
1. a coarse-grained igneous rock composed chiefly of orthoclase and albite feldspars and of quartz, usually with lesser amounts of one or more other minerals, as mica, hornblende, or augite.
2. anything compared to this rock in great hardness, firmness, or durability.
Origin:
1640–50; < It granito grainy. See grain, -ite 1

Related forms:
gra⋅nit⋅ic  [gruh-nit-ik] , adjective
gran⋅ite⋅like, adjective
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gra⋅ni⋅té

  [gran-i-tey, grah-ni-; Fr. gra-nee-tey]
–noun French Cookery.
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Origin:
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gran·ite   (grān'ĭt)   
n.  

  1. A common, coarse-grained, light-colored, hard igneous rock consisting chiefly of quartz, orthoclase or microcline, and mica, used in monuments and for building.

  2. Unyielding endurance; steadfastness: a will of granite.


[Italian granito, from past participle of granire, to make grainy, from grano, grain, from Latin grānum; see gə-no- in Indo-European roots.]
gra·nit'ic (grā-nĭt'ĭk, grə-), gran'it·oid' (grān'ĭ-toid') adj.
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Cultural Dictionary

granite

A relatively lightweight igneous rock that makes up most of the Earth's crust beneath the continents. (See basalt, plate tectonics, and tectonic plates.)

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Word Origin & History

granite 
1646, from Fr. granit(e), from It. granito "granite," originally "grained," pp. of granire "granulate," from grano "grain," from L. granum "grain." In reference to the appearance of the rock. Used figuratively for "hardness" (of the heart, head, etc.) from 1839.
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