grande

Borrowed from Italian grande. Doublet of grand and grandee.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹɑndeɪ/, /ˈɡɹændeɪ/

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• Rhymes: -ɑndeɪ, -ændeɪ

grande (not comparable)

1. (chiefly US) Of a cup of coffee: smaller than venti but larger than tall, usually 16 ounces (~ 455 ml).

   Coordinate terms: tall, venti

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹænd/

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• Rhymes: -ænd

grande (comparative more grande, superlative most grande)

1. Alternative form of grand
   • 1972, Russell Sage College, Studies in the Twentieth Century, page 79:

     Almost symbolically, Lopahin still plays the peasant and Lyubov the grande mistress.

   • 1993, Donald S. Metz, Madame President, New Saga Publishers, →ISBN, pages 147, 270:

     A supremely happy family waved goodbye to an elderly grande dame and a namesake who had just enrolled in her first lesson in becoming a grande lady. […] In Litchfield, Connecticut, the Hutchinson brothers rushed to tell the grande old dame her daughter was making history.

   • 1997, Alzina Stone Dale, Mystery Reader’s Walking Guide: New York, →ISBN, page 217:

     In Shannon O’Cork’s The Murder of Muriel Lake, which is about a Writers of Mystery Convention (aka MWA?), grande mistress Muriel Lake was murdered.

   • 2011, Richard Allen Brooks, “Dame Johnson”, in From Life to Death, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 28:

     THIS GRANDE LADY IS
     DIS-TIN-GUISH-A-BLE IN HER
     DEMURE DELIVERIES.
     DELIGHTFUL AND DAZZLING,
     THE LADY IS DEFINITELY
     A DIVA.

   • 2013, Chet Belmonte, Meadowdale: A Saga of Confinement, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 223:

     That made eight deaths in a matter of a few days—all of them tied inexplicably to this “grande lady” herself—Meadowdale Prison.

   • 2016, Victor Milán, The Dinosaur Knights, Tor Books, →ISBN, page 101:

     Her silence now had the quality of the comfortable silences between friends, not the half-respectful, half-fearful types of a servant not spoken to by her grande mistress.

   • 2016, Jennie Gilbert Ross, The Wrong Side of the Blanket, Archway Publishing, →ISBN:

     Annabella Kristina Ramona Toaltz was a grande name for a grande woman.

• Gander, Garden, danger, gander, garden, graned, nadger, ranged

• gran (apocopic, before a singular noun)

From Latin grandis, grandem.

grande (epicene, plural grandes)

1. large, big

   Antonym: pequeñu

From Latin grandis, grandem (“large, great”).

grande

1. big

From Spanish grande.

grande c (singular definite granden, plural indefinite grander)

1. grandee

From Old Danish grannæ, from Old Norse granni, from Proto-Germanic *garaznô (“neighbour”).

grande c (singular definite granden, plural indefinite grander)

1. (archaic) neighbour

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁɑ̃d/

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• Homophone: grandes
• Rhymes: -ɑ̃d

grande

1. feminine singular of grand

• danger, de rang

• gran (preceding a singular noun)

From Old Galician-Portuguese grande, from Latin grandis, grandem.

• IPA^(key): /ɡɾɐndɪ/

grande m or f (plural grandes)

1. large

   Eso foi de maeso; máis grande que a que eu levei.

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   Synonyms: enorme, groso

• “grande” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

grande (comparative major, superlative le major or le maxime)

1. big, large

   Antonym: parve

2. great

From Latin grandem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ghrewə- (“to fell, put down, fall in”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡran.de/

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• Rhymes: -ande
• Syllabification: gràn‧de

grande (plural grandi, comparative più grande or maggiore, superlative grandissimo or massimo or sommo, diminutive grandétto or grandìno or grandettìno or grandicèllo, augmentative grandóne or (rare) grandòtto, pejorative (rare) grandàccio)

1. of greater physical dimensions or numerosity
   1. big, large (in size or quantity)
   2. tall
   3. wide, broad
   4. long
   5. older (in age, of a person)

      sorella grande ― older sister, big sister

2. great (importance)
3. (colloquial) Synonym of bravo

• The apocopic form gran may be used before singular nouns that start with a consonant. Before singular nouns that start with an impure s, using the apocopic form is ungrammatical but often used in spoken language. Before nouns that start with a vowel, grande can be elided by use of an apostrophe.

grande

1. really (intensifier)

   un gran bel piatto ― a really great dish

grande

1. great!

grande m or f by sense (plural grandi)

1. adult, grownup
2. (usually in the plural) great (person of major significance)

   i grandi della literature ― the greats of literature

grande m (uncountable)

1. greatness, magnificence

   ammirare il grande nell'arte ― to admire the greatness in art

From Latin grandis.

grande (Latin spelling)

1. big

grande m (Latin spelling)

1. adult

From grandis (“large, great”).

grande

1. nominative neuter singular of grandis

grandē (comparative grandius, superlative grandissimē)

1. greatly
2. (poetic) loudly, aloud

• “grande”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “grande”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• grande in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a weighty example, precedent: exemplum magnum, grande
    
  • elevated, moderate, plain style: genus dicendi grave or grande, medium, tenue (cf. Or. 5. 20; 6. 21)
    
  • exorbitant rate of interest: fenus iniquissimum, grande, grave
    
  • to incur debts on a large scale: grande, magnum (opp. exiguum) aes alienum conflare
    
• “grande”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, 1st edition. (Oxford University Press)

• grànde (Grafîa ofiçiâ)

From Latin grandem, form of grandis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡraŋ.de/

grande (masculine plural grendi, feminine plural grende)

1. big
2. large
3. great

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grande

1. feminine singular of grànd, grand

• grant ('grande' steadily replaces 'grant' during the Old French period)

grande

1. nominative feminine singular of grant
   • late 12th century, anonymous, La Folie de Tristan d'Oxford, page 354 (of the Champion Classiques edition of Le Roman de Tristan, →ISBN, lines 67-70:

     La nef ert fort e belle e grande,
     bone cum cele k'ert markande.
     De plusurs mers chargee esteit,
     en Engleterre curre devait.

     The ship was strong and beautiful and big,
     good like a merchant's ship
     loaded with lots of different type of merchandise
     ready to set sail to England.

2. oblique feminine singular of grant

• gran, grand

From Latin grandis, grandem.

grande

1. big, great
   • 13th century, Cancioneiro da Ajuda, João Garcia de Guilhade, A 232: A bõa dona por que eu trobava (facsimile)

     [...] por coita grande que ſoffri

     [...] because of the great pain I suffered

• Fala: grandi
• Galician: grande
• Portuguese: grande

• ganda (European, colloquial)
• grãde (obsolete, abbreviation)

From Old Galician-Portuguese grande, from Latin grandis, of uncertain origin.

• Hyphenation: gran‧de

grande m or f (plural grandes)

1. large; great; big (of great size or extent)

   Este livro é grande. ― This book is big.

   Este livro é maior do que aquele. ― This book is bigger than that one.

2. large; big; numerous (numerically large)

   Synonym: numeroso

   A família é muito grande. ― The family is very large.

3. (preceding nouns) great (of great importance)

   Os grandes reis da antiguidade. ― The great kings of antiquity.

4. (preceding nouns) great; magnanimous (noble and generous in spirit)

   Synonym: magnânimo

   Artur foi um grande rei. ― Arthur was a great king.

5. grown-up; mature

   Synonyms: crescido, maduro

   Já és grande, podes trabalhar. ― You’re already grown-up, you can work.

6. (followed by a city’s name) the metropolitan area of, greater

   Moro na grande Lisboa. ― I live in the metropolis of Lisbon.

   O Grande Porto é uma região metropolitana no norte de Portugal. ― Greater Porto is a metropolitan area in the north of Portugal.

• Comparative: maior
• Superlative: máximo (poetic), o maior
• Synthetic superlative: grandíssimo
• Augmentative: grandão, grandalhão
• Diminutive: grandinho, grandote

For quotations using this term, see Citations:grande.

• (of great size): see Thesaurus:grande

• (of great size): pequeno, see Thesaurus:grande

• grandemente
• infinitamente grande

• grandeza
• grandioso

grande m or f by sense (plural grandes)

1. (Brazil, colloquial, used in the vocative) A term of address for someone

   Synonyms: amigo, chefe

• “grande” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

• gran (preceding a singular noun)

From Latin grandis, grandem (“large, great”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ghrewə- (“to fell, put down, fall in”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾande/ [ˈɡɾãn̪.d̪e]

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• Rhymes: -ande
• Syllabification: gran‧de

grande (plural grandes) superlative: grandísimo, mayor

1. (after the noun or predicatively) big, large

   Synonyms: (for cloth, shoe, place) amplio, voluminoso

   Antonyms: chico, pequeño

2. (before a plural noun) great

   Synonym: grandioso

   Antonym: irrelevante

3. (about human age) aged, old

   Mi papá ya es muy grande para hacer eso.

   My dad is now a bit old to do that.

   Synonyms: anciano, viejo

   Antonyms: chico, joven, pequeño

• When used before and in the same noun phrase as the modified singular noun, the apocopic form gran (“great”) is used instead of grande.

grande m or f (plural grandes)

1. grandee

• → English: grandee
• → German: Grande

• “grande”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014