| grab | (noun) the act of catching an object with the hands | Synonyms: catch, snap, snatch |
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| (noun) a mechanical device for gripping an object | - |
| (verb) capture the attention or imagination of | Synonyms: seize |
| (verb) take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of | Synonyms: catch |
| (verb) take or grasp suddenly | - |
| (verb) make a grasping or snatching motion with the hand | - |
| (verb) get hold of or seize quickly and easily | Synonyms: snaffle, snap up |
| (verb) obtain illegally or unscrupulously | - |
| grabber | (noun) an unpleasant person who grabs inconsiderately | - |
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| grabby | (adjective) immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth | Synonyms: avaricious, covetous, grasping, greedy, prehensile |
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| grace | (noun) a sense of propriety and consideration for others | Synonyms: seemliness |
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| (noun) elegance and beauty of movement or expression | Synonyms: gracility |
| (noun) (Christian theology) the free and unmerited favor or beneficence of God | Synonyms: free grace, grace of God |
| (noun) a disposition to kindness and compassion | Synonyms: good will, goodwill |
| (noun) a short prayer of thanks before a meal | Synonyms: blessing, thanksgiving |
| (noun) (Christian theology) a state of sanctification by God; the state of one who is under such divine influence | Synonyms: saving grace, state of grace |
| (noun) a period of time past the deadline for fulfilling an obligation during which a penalty that would be imposed for being late is waived, especially an extended period granted as a special favor | Synonyms: grace period |
| (verb) make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc. | Synonyms: adorn, beautify, decorate, embellish, ornament |
| (verb) be beautiful to look at | Synonyms: adorn, beautify, deck, decorate, embellish |
| graceful | (adjective) characterized by beauty of movement, style, form, or execution | - |
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| (adjective) suggesting taste, ease, and wealth | Synonyms: elegant, refined |
| gracefully | (adverb) in a graceful manner | - |
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| (adverb) in a gracious or graceful manner | Synonyms: graciously |
| gracefulness | (noun) beautiful carriage | - |
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| graceless | (adjective) lacking grace; clumsy | Synonyms: ungraceful |
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| (adjective) lacking social polish | Synonyms: gauche, unpolished |
| (adjective) lacking graciousness | - |
| gracelessly | (adverb) in a graceless manner | - |
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| (adverb) without grace; rigidly | Synonyms: ungracefully, ungraciously, woodenly |
| gracelessness | (noun) an unpleasant lack of grace in carriage or form or movement or expression | Synonyms: ungracefulness |
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| (noun) the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment) | Synonyms: awkwardness, clumsiness, stiffness |
| gracilariid | (noun) small dull or metallic-colored tineoid moths whose larvae mine in plant leaves | Synonyms: gracilariid moth |
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| gracile | (adjective) slender and graceful | Synonyms: willowy |
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| gracility | (noun) elegance and beauty of movement or expression | Synonyms: grace |
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| gracious | (adjective) characterized by charm, good taste, and generosity of spirit | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by kindness and warm courtesy especially of a king to his subjects | Synonyms: benignant |
| (adjective) exhibiting courtesy and politeness | Synonyms: courteous, nice |
| (adjective) disposed to bestow favors | - |
| graciously | (adverb) in a gracious or graceful manner | Synonyms: gracefully |
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| graciousness | (noun) excellence of manners or social conduct | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being kind and gentle | Synonyms: benignancy, benignity |
| grackle | (noun) long-tailed American blackbird having iridescent black plumage | Synonyms: crow blackbird |
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| (noun) glossy black Asiatic starling often taught to mimic speech | Synonyms: Gracula religiosa, hill myna, Indian grackle |
| grad | (noun) a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university) | Synonyms: alum, graduate |
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| (noun) one-hundredth of a right angle | Synonyms: grade |
| gradable | (adjective) capable of being graded (for quality or rank or size etc.) | - |
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| gradate | (verb) pass imperceptibly from one degree, shade, or tone into another | - |
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| (verb) arrange according to grades | - |
| gradation | (noun) the act of arranging in grades | Synonyms: graduation |
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| (noun) a degree of ablaut | Synonyms: grade |
| (noun) relative position in a graded series | Synonyms: step |
| gradational | (adjective) taking place by degrees | Synonyms: gradatory, graduated |
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| gradatory | (adjective) taking place by degrees | Synonyms: gradational, graduated |
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| grade | (noun) a variety of cattle produced by crossbreeding with a superior breed | - |
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| (noun) a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality | Synonyms: degree, level |
| (noun) the gradient of a slope or road or other surface | - |
| (noun) the height of the ground on which something stands | Synonyms: ground level |
| (noun) a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance) | Synonyms: mark, score |
| (noun) a degree of ablaut | Synonyms: gradation |
| (noun) a body of students who are taught together | Synonyms: class, course, form |
| (noun) one-hundredth of a right angle | Synonyms: grad |
| (noun) a relative position or degree of value in a graded group | Synonyms: level, tier |
| (verb) determine the grade of or assign a grade to | - |
| (verb) assign a rank or rating to | Synonyms: order, place, range, rank, rate |
| (verb) assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation | Synonyms: mark, score |
| (verb) level to the right gradient | - |
| graded | (adjective) arranged in a sequence of grades or ranks | Synonyms: ranked, stratified |
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| grader | (noun) a judge who assigns grades to something | - |
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| gradient | (noun) the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal | Synonyms: slope |
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| (noun) a graded change in the magnitude of some physical quantity or dimension | - |
| grading | (noun) the act of arranging in a graduated series | Synonyms: scaling |
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| (noun) evaluation of performance by assigning a grade or score | Synonyms: marking, scoring |
| (noun) changing the ground level to a smooth horizontal or gently sloping surface | Synonyms: leveling |
| gradual | (adjective) proceeding in small stages | - |
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| (adjective) (of a topographical gradient) not steep or abrupt | - |
| (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) an antiphon (usually from the Book of Psalms) immediately after the epistle at Mass | - |
| graduality | (noun) the quality of being gradual or of coming about by gradual stages | Synonyms: gradualness |
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| gradually | (adverb) in a gradual manner | Synonyms: bit by bit, step by step |
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| gradualness | (noun) the quality of being gradual or of coming about by gradual stages | Synonyms: graduality |
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| (noun) the property possessed by a slope that is very gradual | Synonyms: gentleness |
| graduate | (adjective) of or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree | Synonyms: postgraduate |
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| (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring fluid volume; a glass container (cup or cylinder or flask) whose sides are marked with or divided into amounts | - |
| (noun) a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university) | Synonyms: alum, grad |
| (verb) make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring | Synonyms: calibrate, fine-tune |
| (verb) receive an academic degree upon completion of one's studies; completion of a course or training | - |
| (verb) confer an academic degree upon | - |
| graduated | (adjective) marked with or divided into degrees | Synonyms: calibrated |
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| (adjective) taking place by degrees | Synonyms: gradational, gradatory |
| graduation | (noun) the act of arranging in grades | Synonyms: gradation |
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| (noun) the successful completion of a program of study | - |
| (noun) a line (as on a vessel or ruler) that marks a measurement | - |
| (noun) an academic exercise in which diplomas are conferred | Synonyms: commencement, commencement ceremony, commencement exercise, graduation exercise |
| graffiti | (noun) a rude decoration inscribed on rocks or walls | Synonyms: graffito |
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| graffito | (noun) a rude decoration inscribed on rocks or walls | Synonyms: graffiti |
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| graft | (noun) the act of grafting something onto something else | Synonyms: grafting |
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| (noun) the practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage | Synonyms: bribery |
| (noun) (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient | Synonyms: transplant |
| (verb) cause to grow together parts from different plants | Synonyms: engraft, ingraft |
| (verb) place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient | Synonyms: transplant |
| grafting | (noun) the act of grafting something onto something else | Synonyms: graft |
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| graham | (noun) flour made by grinding the entire wheat berry including the bran; (`whole meal flour' is British usage) | Synonyms: graham flour, whole meal flour, whole wheat flour |
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| grail | (noun) (legend) chalice used by Christ at the Last Supper | Synonyms: Holy Grail, Sangraal |
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| (noun) the object of any prolonged endeavor | - |
| grain | (noun) the direction, texture, or pattern of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric | - |
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| (noun) the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance) | Synonyms: texture |
| (noun) the smallest possible unit of anything | - |
| (noun) foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses | Synonyms: cereal, food grain |
| (noun) a relatively small granular particle of a substance | - |
| (noun) dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn | Synonyms: caryopsis |
| (noun) a cereal grass | - |
| (noun) 1/7000 pound; equals a troy grain or 64.799 milligrams | - |
| (noun) 1/60 dram; equals an avoirdupois grain or 64.799 milligrams | - |
| (noun) a weight unit used for pearls or diamonds: 50 mg or 1/4 carat | Synonyms: metric grain |
| (noun) the side of leather from which the hair has been removed | - |
| (verb) form into grains | Synonyms: granulate |
| (verb) become granular | Synonyms: granulate |
| (verb) thoroughly work in | Synonyms: ingrain |
| (verb) paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood | - |
| grainfield | (noun) a field where grain is grown | Synonyms: grain field |
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| graininess | (noun) the quality of being composed of relatively large particles | Synonyms: coarseness, granularity |
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| graining | (noun) a texture like that of wood | Synonyms: woodgraining |
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| grainy | (adjective) composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency | Synonyms: coarse-grained, farinaceous, granular, granulose, gritty, mealy |
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| gram | (noun) a metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram | Synonyms: g, gm, gramme |
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| grama | (noun) pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America | Synonyms: grama grass, gramma, gramma grass |
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| gramicidin | (noun) an antibiotic produced by a soil bacterium; used chiefly as an antiseptic in treating local infections produced by Gram-positive bacteria | - |
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| gramma | (noun) pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America | Synonyms: grama, grama grass, gramma grass |
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| grammar | (noun) the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics) | - |
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| grammarian | (noun) a linguist who specializes in the study of grammar and syntax | Synonyms: syntactician |
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| grammatic | (adjective) of or pertaining to grammar | Synonyms: grammatical |
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| grammatical | (adjective) conforming to the rules of grammar or usage accepted by native speakers | Synonyms: well-formed |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to grammar | Synonyms: grammatic |
| grammatically | (adverb) in a grammatical manner | - |
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| grammatolatry | (noun) the worship of words | Synonyms: verbolatry, word-worship |
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| gramme | (noun) a metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram | Synonyms: g, gm, gram |
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| gramophone | (noun) an antique record player; the sound of the vibrating needle is amplified acoustically | Synonyms: acoustic gramophone |
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| gramps | (noun) the father of your father or mother | Synonyms: grandad, granddad, granddaddy, grandfather, grandpa |
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| grampus | (noun) slaty-grey blunt-nosed dolphin common in northern seas | Synonyms: Grampus griseus |
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| (noun) predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas | Synonyms: killer, killer whale, orca, Orcinus orca, sea wolf |
| gran | (noun) the mother of your father or mother | Synonyms: grandma, grandmother, grannie, granny, nan, nanna |
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| granadilla | (noun) the egg-shaped edible fruit of tropical American vines related to passionflowers | - |
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| (noun) tropical American passionflower yielding the large granadilla fruit | Synonyms: giant granadilla, Passiflora quadrangularis |
| (noun) Brazilian passionflower cultivated for its deep purple fruit | Synonyms: Passiflora edulis, purple granadillo |
| (noun) considered best for fruit | Synonyms: Passiflora ligularis, sweet granadilla |
| granadillo | (noun) West Indian tree yielding a fine grade of green ebony | Synonyms: Brya ebenus, granadilla tree |
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| granary | (noun) a storehouse for threshed grain or animal feed | Synonyms: garner |
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| grand | (adjective) used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person | Synonyms: distinguished, imposing, magisterial |
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| (adjective) extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers | Synonyms: fantastic, howling, marvellous, marvelous, phenomenal, rattling, terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous |
| (adjective) the most important and magnificent in adornment | - |
| (adjective) of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope | Synonyms: expansive, heroic |
| (adjective) large and impressive in physical size or extent | - |
| (adjective) of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style | Synonyms: elevated, exalted, high-flown, high-minded, idealistic, lofty, noble-minded, rarefied, rarified, sublime |
| (adjective) of or befitting a lord | Synonyms: august, lordly |
| (adjective) ostentatiously rich and superior in quality | Synonyms: deluxe, gilded, lush, luxurious, opulent, princely, sumptuous |
| (noun) a piano with the strings on a horizontal harp-shaped frame; usually supported by three legs | Synonyms: grand piano |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 | Synonyms: 1000, chiliad, G, K, M, one thousand, thou, thousand, yard |
| grandad | (noun) the father of your father or mother | Synonyms: gramps, granddad, granddaddy, grandfather, grandpa |
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| grandaunt | (noun) an aunt of your father or mother | Synonyms: great-aunt |
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| grandchild | (noun) a child of your son or daughter | - |
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| granddad | (noun) the father of your father or mother | Synonyms: gramps, grandad, granddaddy, grandfather, grandpa |
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| granddaddy | (noun) the father of your father or mother | Synonyms: gramps, grandad, granddad, grandfather, grandpa |
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| granddaughter | (noun) a female grandchild | - |
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| grandee | (noun) a nobleman of highest rank in Spain or Portugal | - |
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| grandeur | (noun) the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand | Synonyms: brilliance, grandness, magnificence, splendor, splendour |
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| (noun) the quality of elevation of mind and exaltation of character or ideals or conduct | Synonyms: magnanimousness, nobility, nobleness |
| grandfather | (noun) the father of your father or mother | Synonyms: gramps, grandad, granddad, granddaddy, grandpa |
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| grandiloquence | (noun) high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation | Synonyms: grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness, rhetoric |
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| grandiloquent | (adjective) puffed up with vanity | Synonyms: overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous |
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| (adjective) lofty in style | Synonyms: magniloquent, tall |
| grandiloquently | (adverb) in a rhetorically grandiloquent manner | Synonyms: magniloquently |
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| grandiose | (adjective) impressive because of unnecessary largeness or grandeur; used to show disapproval | - |
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| (adjective) affectedly genteel; to carry an air of affected importance; to be snobbish and haughty | Synonyms: hifalutin, highfalutin, highfaluting, hoity-toity, la-di-da |
| grandiosely | (adverb) in a grandiose manner | Synonyms: bombastically |
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| grandiosity | (noun) high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation | Synonyms: grandiloquence, magniloquence, ornateness, rhetoric |
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| grandly | (adverb) in a grand manner | - |
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| grandma | (noun) the mother of your father or mother | Synonyms: gran, grandmother, grannie, granny, nan, nanna |
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| grandmaster | (noun) a player of exceptional or world class skill in chess or bridge | - |
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| grandmother | (noun) the mother of your father or mother | Synonyms: gran, grandma, grannie, granny, nan, nanna |
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| grandnephew | (noun) a son of your niece or nephew | Synonyms: great-nephew |
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| grandness | (noun) the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand | Synonyms: brilliance, grandeur, magnificence, splendor, splendour |
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| (noun) unusual largeness in size or extent or number | Synonyms: enormousness, greatness, immenseness, immensity, sizeableness, vastness, wideness |
| (noun) splendid or imposing in size or appearance | Synonyms: impressiveness, magnificence, richness |
| (noun) a prominent status | Synonyms: importance |
| grandniece | (noun) a daughter of your niece or nephew | Synonyms: great-niece |
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| grandpa | (noun) the father of your father or mother | Synonyms: gramps, grandad, granddad, granddaddy, grandfather |
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| grandparent | (noun) a parent of your father or mother | - |
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| grandson | (noun) a male grandchild | - |
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| grandstand | (noun) a stand at a racecourse or stadium consisting of tiers with rows of individual seats that are under a protective roof | Synonyms: covered stand |
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| (noun) the audience at a stadium or racetrack | - |
| (verb) perform ostentatiously in order to impress the audience and with an eye to the applause | - |
| grandstander | (noun) someone who performs with an eye to the applause from spectators in the grandstand | - |
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| granduncle | (noun) an uncle of your father or mother | Synonyms: great-uncle |
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| grange | (noun) an outlying farm | - |
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| granger | (noun) a person who operates a farm | Synonyms: farmer, husbandman, sodbuster |
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| granite | (noun) something having the quality of granite (unyielding firmness) | - |
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| (noun) plutonic igneous rock having visibly crystalline texture; generally composed of feldspar and mica and quartz | - |
| granitelike | (adjective) hard as granite | Synonyms: granitic, rocklike, stony |
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| graniteware | (noun) a kind of stone-grey enamelware | - |
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| granitic | (adjective) hard as granite | Synonyms: granitelike, rocklike, stony |
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| (adjective) showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings | Synonyms: flint, flinty, obdurate, stony |
| grannie | (noun) the mother of your father or mother | Synonyms: gran, grandma, grandmother, granny, nan, nanna |
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