grandeur

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Middle French grandeur, from Old French grandur, from grant (French grand), from Latin grandis (grown up, great).

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grandeur (countable and uncountable, plural grandeurs)

  1. 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.
    • 2023 March 21, Pjotr Sauer, “Putin’s two-day charm offensive with Xi underlines who’s boss”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
      In a tightly choreographed ceremony filled with imperial grandeur, Xi and Putin then walked towards each other and met in the middle, smiling as they shook hands.
  2. Nobility (state of being noble).
  3. (archaic, rare) Greatness; largeness; tallness; loftiness.
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French

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From Old French grandur, from grand +‎ -eur.

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grandeur f (plural grandeurs)

  1. size
  2. (physics, mathematics) magnitude, quantity
  3. (astronomy) magnitude
  4. grandeur

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Walloon

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From Old French grandur.

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grandeur f (plural grandeurs)

  1. size