grand vs wondrous what difference

what is difference between grand and wondrous

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)

1. Of a large size or extent; great.

   a grand mountain

   a grand army

   a grand mistake

2. 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.
3. 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.

4. (usually in compound forms) Standing in the second or some more remote degree of parentage or descent (see grand-).

   grandfather, grandson, grand-child

5. (Ireland, Northern England, colloquial, otherwise dated) Fine; lovely.

6. (music) Containing all the parts proper to a given form of composition.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Noun

grand (plural grands or grand)

1. (plural “grand”) A thousand of some unit of currency, such as dollars or pounds. (Compare G.)

   For quotations using this term, see Citations:grand.

2. (music, plural “grands”) A grand piano

Translations

Etymology 2

From granddaughter, grandfather, grandmother, grandson, etc.

Noun

grand (plural grands)

1. 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.

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)

1. 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)

1. big, great, grand
2. tall
3. (usually capitalized) Great, an honorific title

4. great; big fat; an intensifier

5. 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

1. 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)

1. damage, harm, destruction
2. (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

1. 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)

1. 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

1. (Jersey) big

Derived terms

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin grandis.

Adjective

grand m (feminine singular granda, masculine plural grands, feminine plural grandas)

1. 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

1. grandee (high-ranking Spanish nobleman)

Declension

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

grand

1. 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)

1. (Puter) big, large
2. (Puter) tall

Swedish

Noun

grand n

1. 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)

1. large, big

English

Alternative forms

• wonderous

Etymology

From Middle English wondrous, alteration after the suffix -ous of Middle English wonders (“wondrous, wonderful”, adjective), from Old English wundres (“of wonder”), genitive singular of wundor (“wonder, miracle”), from Proto-Germanic *wundrą (“wonder”). Compare Dutch wonders, German Wunder.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwʌndɹəs/
• Hyphenation: won‧drous

Adjective

wondrous (comparative more wondrous, superlative most wondrous)

1. Wonderful; amazing, inspiring awe; marvelous.

Derived terms

• wondrously

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:awesome

Translations

Adverb

wondrous (comparative more wondrous, superlative most wondrous)

1. In a wonderful degree; remarkably; wondrously.

Translations

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