Granville

Gran·ville

[gran-vil]
noun
1.
Earl of, Carteret, John.
2.
a male given name.
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Granville (ˈɡrænvɪl) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
1.  1st Earl, title of John Carteret. 1690--1763, British statesman: secretary of state (1742--44); a leading opponent of Walpole
2.  2nd Earl, title of Granville George Leveson-Gower. 1815-- 91, British Liberal politician: Gladstone's foreign secretary (1870--74; 1880--85) and a supporter of Irish Home Rule

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Granville is always a great word to know.
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a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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