grand vs thousand what difference
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English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡɹænd/
- Rhymes: -ænd
Etymology 1
From Middle English grand, grond, graund, graunt, from Anglo-Norman graunt, from Old French grant, from Latin grandis. Doublet of grande and grandee.
Alternative forms
- grande
Adjective
grand (comparative grander or more grand, superlative grandest or most grand)
- Of a large size or extent; great.
- a grand mountain
- a grand army
- a grand mistake
- Great in size, and fine or imposing in appearance or impression; illustrious, dignified, magnificent.
- a grand monarch
- a grand view
- His simple vision has transformed into something far more grand.
- Having higher rank or more dignity, size, or importance than other persons or things of the same name.
- a grand lodge
- a grand vizier
- a grand piano
- The Grand Viziers of the Ottoman Empire.
- (usually in compound forms) Standing in the second or some more remote degree of parentage or descent (see grand-).
- grandfather, grandson, grand-child
- (Ireland, Northern England, colloquial, otherwise dated) Fine; lovely.
- (music) Containing all the parts proper to a given form of composition.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Noun
grand (plural grands or grand)
- (plural “grand”) A thousand of some unit of currency, such as dollars or pounds. (Compare G.)
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:grand.
- (music, plural “grands”) A grand piano
Translations
Etymology 2
From granddaughter, grandfather, grandmother, grandson, etc.
Noun
grand (plural grands)
- A grandparent or grandchild.
- 1987, Toni Morrison, Beloved, page 269:
- Once, in Maryland, he met four families of slaves who had all been together for a hundred years: great-grands, grands, mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles, cousins, children.
- 2012, Brenda Jackson, Texas Wild & Beyond Temptation, page 47:
- Her granddaughter and great-granddaughter went with us as chaperones. Did I ever tell you that she had six grands and two great-grands? […] And Emily agrees with me it’s a shame that I don’t even have a grand.
- 1987, Toni Morrison, Beloved, page 269:
Further reading
- grand in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- DRAGN
Bourguignon
Etymology
From Latin grandis.
Adjective
grand (feminine grand or grande, masculine plural grands, feminine plural grands or grandes)
- big
French
Etymology
From Middle French grand, from Old French grant, from Latin grandis, grandem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡʁɑ̃/, (followed by vowel or h muet) /ɡʁɑ̃.t‿/
Adjective
grand (feminine singular grande, masculine plural grands, feminine plural grandes)
- big, great, grand
- tall
- (usually capitalized) Great, an honorific title
- great; big fat; an intensifier
- extensive, large
Derived terms
See also
- grand-mère
- grand-père
- grand-chose
Further reading
- “grand” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Friulian
Alternative forms
- grant (standard orthography)
Adjective
grand
- Alternative form of grant
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse grand (“injury, hurt”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /krant/
- Rhymes: -ant
Noun
grand n (genitive singular grands, nominative plural grönd)
- damage, harm, destruction
- (card games) absence of trump cards/suits
Declension
Synonyms
- mein
- skaði
- óskundi
Related terms
- granda
Lombard
Etymology
Akin to Italian grande, from Latin grandis.
Adjective
grand
- big, large
Middle French
Alternative forms
- grant
Etymology
From Old French grant, from Latin grandis, grandem.
Adjective
grand m (feminine singular grande, masculine plural grands, feminine plural grandes) (comparative greigneur, superlative greigneur)
- big; large
Descendants
- French: grand
Norman
Alternative forms
- grànd (Guernsey)
Etymology
From Old French grant, from Latin grandis, grandem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡrɑ̃/, /ɡrɔ̃/
- (Jersey)
Adjective
grand m
- (Jersey) big
Derived terms
Occitan
Etymology
From Latin grandis.
Adjective
grand m (feminine singular granda, masculine plural grands, feminine plural grandas)
- big, large
- Antonyms: pichon, petit
Derived terms
- grandament
- grandàs
- grandesa
Further reading
- Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians, 2 edition, →ISBN, page 538.
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡrant/
Etymology 1
From Spanish grande.
Noun
grand m pers
- grandee (high-ranking Spanish nobleman)
Declension
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
grand
- genitive plural of granda
Further reading
- grand in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- grand in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romansch
Alternative forms
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) grond
- (Sutsilvan) grànd
Etymology
From Latin grandis, grandem.
Adjective
grand m (feminine singular granda, masculine plural grands, feminine plural grandas)
- (Puter) big, large
- (Puter) tall
Swedish
Noun
grand n
- a mote, a speck, something very small and unimportant
Usage notes
- The form grann is used in the adverb litegrann (“a bit”), which in older texts can be written litet grand.
- Phrases like vi åt lunch på Grand, refer to a “Grand Hotel” available in several towns
Declension
Walloon
Etymology
From Old French grant, from Latin grandis, grandem.
Adjective
grand m (feminine singular grande, masculine plural grands, feminine plural grandes, feminine plural (before noun) grandès)
- large, big
Translingual
Etymology
From English thousand
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈtauˈzænd] [sic]
Numeral
thousand
- Code word for combinations of thousand (that is, the digits 000 or the thousands spacer) in the NATO/ICAO spelling alphabet
- one zero thousand nine four six meter (10,946 m)
Usage notes
The code word ‘thousand’ is used when reciting distances (including altitudes), but not for serial numbers. That is, a serial number 10,946 would be read simply as its digits: one zero nine four six.
References
English
Alternative forms
- Arabic numerals: 1000 (see for numerical forms in other scripts)
- Roman numerals: M
- ISO prefix: kilo-
- Exponential notation: 103
Etymology
From Middle English thousend, thusand, from Old English þūsend (“thousand”), from Proto-West Germanic *þūsundi, from Proto-Germanic *þūsundī (“thousand”), (compare Scots thousand (“thousand”), Saterland Frisian duusend (“thousand”), West Frisian tûzen (“thousand”), Dutch duizend (“thousand”), German tausend (“thousand”), Danish tusind (“thousand”), Swedish tusen (“thousand”), Norwegian tusen (“thousand”), Icelandic þúsund (“thousand”), Faroese túsund (“thousand”)), from Proto-Indo-European *tuHsont-, *tuHsenti- (compare Lithuanian tūkstantis (“thousand”), Russian ты́сяча (týsjača)).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈθaʊzənd/, IPA(key): [ˈθaʊzn̩d]
- (US) enPR: thou′zənd, IPA(key): /ˈθaʊz(ə)nd/, [ˈθaʊ̯zɹ̩nd]
- Hyphenation: thou‧sand
Numeral
thousand (plural thousands)
- A numerical value equal to 1,000 = 10 × 100 = 103
Usage notes
Unlike cardinal numerals such as ten or ninety-nine (where one can say e.g. there were ten men present), the word thousand is a noun like dozen and needs a determiner or another numeral to function as a numeral: one cannot say *there were thousand men present, but must say:
- there were a thousand men / one thousand men / forty-three thousand men present
- one can also speak of the thousand men, several thousand men, or some thousand men who were present
- compare a dozen men / one dozen men / forty-three dozen men, the dozen men, several dozen men, some dozen men
When preceded by a determiner or numeral and followed by of, it can be singular or plural:
- two thousand of the inhabitants died, several thousand of the inhabitants fled
- many thousands of women marched
- “Aragorn should find some two thousands of those that he had gathered to him in the South; but Imrahil should find three and a half thousands; and Éomer five hundreds of the Rohirrim who were unhorsed but themselves warworthy.” (J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King)
When followed by of and not preceded by a determiner or numeral, it must be pluralized with -s: thousands of women protested, countless thousands of women voted, not *thousand of women.
Synonyms
- (numerical): a thousand, one thousand
Derived terms
See also
- Appendix:Words used as placeholders to count seconds
Descendants
- → Hawaiian: kaukani
Translations
Anagrams
- handouts, hands out
