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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granny | (noun) a reef knot crossed the wrong way and therefore insecure | Synonyms: granny knot |
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(noun) the mother of your father or mother | Synonyms: gran, grandma, grandmother, grannie, nan, nanna |
(noun) an old woman | - |
granola | (noun) cereal made of especially rolled oats with dried fruits and nuts and honey or brown sugar | - |
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grant | (noun) the act of providing a subsidy | Synonyms: subsidisation, subsidization |
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(noun) a right or privilege that has been granted | - |
(noun) a contract granting the right to operate a subsidiary business | Synonyms: concession |
(noun) any monetary aid | - |
(noun) (law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance | Synonyms: assignment |
(verb) be willing to concede | Synonyms: concede, yield |
(verb) allow to have | Synonyms: accord, allot |
(verb) let have | Synonyms: allow |
(verb) transfer by deed | Synonyms: deed over |
(verb) give as judged due or on the basis of merit | Synonyms: award |
(verb) give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another | Synonyms: cede, concede, yield |
(verb) bestow, especially officially | Synonyms: give |
granted | (adjective) acknowledged as a supposition | Synonyms: given |
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grantee | (noun) a recipient of a grant | - |
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(noun) someone to whom the title of property is transferred | Synonyms: alienee |
granter | (noun) a person who grants or gives something | - |
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grantor | (noun) a person who makes a grant in legal form | - |
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granular | (adjective) having a granular structure like that of chondrites | Synonyms: chondritic |
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(adjective) composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency | Synonyms: coarse-grained, farinaceous, grainy, granulose, gritty, mealy |
granularity | (noun) the quality of being composed of relatively large particles | Synonyms: coarseness, graininess |
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granulate | (verb) form granulating tissue | - |
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(verb) form into grains | Synonyms: grain |
(verb) become granular | Synonyms: grain |
granulated | (adjective) made grainy or formed into granules | - |
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granulation | (noun) the act of forming something into granules or grains | - |
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(noun) new connective tissue and tiny blood vessels that form on the surfaces of a wound during the healing process | Synonyms: granulation tissue |
granulator | (noun) a machine that forms material (such as plastics, bottles, organics, etc.) into granules. | Synonyms: granulator machine |
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granule | (noun) a tiny grain | - |
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granuliferous | (adjective) producing or full of granules | - |
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granulocyte | (noun) a leukocyte that has granules in its cytoplasm | - |
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granulocytic | (adjective) of or relating to granulocytes | - |
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granulocytopenia | (noun) an acute blood disorder (often caused by radiation or drug therapy) characterized by severe reduction in granulocytes | Synonyms: agranulocytosis, agranulosis |
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granuloma | (noun) a tumor composed of granulation tissue resulting from injury or inflammation or infection | - |
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granulomatous | (adjective) relating to or characterized by granulomas | - |
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granulose | (adjective) composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency | Synonyms: coarse-grained, farinaceous, grainy, granular, gritty, mealy |
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