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grand

  [grand] adjective, grand⋅er, grand⋅est, noun, plural grands for 13, grand for 14.
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–adjective
1. impressive in size, appearance, or general effect: grand mountain scenery.
2. stately, majestic, or dignified: In front of an audience her manner is grand and regal.
3. highly ambitious or idealistic: grand ideas for bettering the political situation.
4. magnificent or splendid: a grand palace.
5. noble or revered: a grand old man.
6. highest, or very high, in rank or official dignity: a grand potentate.
7. main or principal; chief: the grand ballroom.
8. of great importance, distinction, or pretension: a man used to entertaining grand personages.
9. complete or comprehensive: a grand total.
10. pretending to grandeur, as a result of minor success, good fortune, etc.; conceited: Jane is awfully grand since she got promoted.
11. first-rate; very good; splendid: to have a grand time; to feel grand.
12. Music. written on a large scale or for a large ensemble: a grand fugue.
–noun
13. grand piano.
14. Informal. an amount equal to a thousand dollars: The cops found most of the loot, but they're still missing about five grand.
Origin:
1350–1400; 1920–25 for def. 14; ME gra(u)nd, gra(u)nt < OF grant, grand < L grand- (s. of grandis) great, large full-grown

Related forms:
grandly, adverb
grandness, noun

Synonyms:
2. princely, regal, royal, exalted. 4. great, large, palatial; brilliant, superb. 9. inclusive.

Antonyms:
1. insignificant. 2. modest, unassuming. 3. small; mean. 7. minor.
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Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009.
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Slang Dictionary
grand

and G; gee; large
  1. n.
    one thousand dollars. : That car probably cost about twenty grand. , You owe me three gees! , He won three large on the slots!
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

grand 
1125, from Anglo-Fr. graunt, from O.Fr. grant, grand, from L. grandis "big, great," also "full-grown" (cognate with Gk. brenthueothai "to swagger"). It supplanted magnus in Romance languages; in Eng. with a special sense of "imposing." The connotations of "moral greatness, sublimity," etc., were in Latin. As a general term of admiration, 1816. The noun meaning "thousand dollars" is first recorded in Amer.Eng. underworld slang, 1915, from the adj.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Legal Dictionary

Main Entry: grand
Function: adjective
: of, relating to, or being a crime involving the theft of money or property valued at over a set amount grand embezzlement> —see also grand larceny at LARCENY grand theft at THEFT —compare PETTY
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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