grandeur
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French grandeur, from Old French grandur, from grant (French grand), from Latin grandis (“grown up, great”).
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈɡɹæn.d͡ʒɚ/, /ˈɡɹæn.d͡ʒʊɚ/, /ˈɡɹæn.d(j)ʊɚ/, /ˈɡɹæn.d(j)ɚ/
Audio (US) (file) - Homophone: grander (one pronunciation)
Noun
grandeur (countable and uncountable, plural grandeurs)
- The state of being grand or splendid; magnificence.
- 1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems:
- I wrapp’d myself in grandeur then,
And donn’d a visionary crown ——
- 2020 August 26, Tim Dunn, “Great railway bores of our time!”, in Rail, page 44:
- So much of what followed from the drawing boards of others will have been designed with the demands, effort and grandeur of Primrose Hill [tunnel] in the back of their minds.
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- Nobility (state of being noble).
- (archaic, rare) Greatness; largeness; tallness; loftiness.
Translations
state of being grand or splendid; magnificence
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nobility
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greatness; largeness; tallness; loftiness
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References
- “grandeur”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.
French
Etymology
Old French grandur, from grand + -eur.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡʁɑ̃.dœʁ/
Audio (France, Paris) (file) - Homophone: grandeurs
Noun
grandeur f (plural grandeurs)
- size
- (physics, mathematics) magnitude, quantity
- (astronomy) magnitude
- grandeur
Derived terms
- folie des grandeurs
- grandeur d'âme
- grandeur nature
- ordre de grandeur
- Votre Grandeur
See also
- taille
- largeur
- hauteur
Further reading
- “grandeur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Walloon
Etymology
From Old French grandur.
Noun
grandeur f (plural grandeurs)
- size