grand tour | a sightseeing tour of a building or institution |
grand tour | an extended cultural tour of Europe taken by wealthy young Englishmen (especially in the th century) as part of their education |
grand circle | a gymnastic exercise performed on the horizontal bar by swinging around it with the body fully extended |
grand larceny grand theft | larceny of property having a value greater than some amount (the amount varies by locale) |
War of the Grand Alliance War of the League of Augsburg | an aggressive war waged by Louis XIV against Spain and the Holy Roman Empire and England and Holland and other states (-) |
sturgeon | large primitive fishes valued for their flesh and roe, widely distributed in the North Temperate Zone |
Pacific sturgeon white sturgeon Sacramento sturgeon Acipenser transmontanus | food and game fish of marine and fresh waters of northwestern coast of North America |
beluga hausen white sturgeon Acipenser huso | valuable source of caviar and isinglass, found in Black and Caspian seas |
baby grand baby grand piano parlor grand parlor grand piano parlour grand parlour grand piano | a small grand piano |
concert grand concert piano | a grand piano suitable for concert performances |
grand piano grand | a piano with the strings on a horizontal harp-shaped frame, usually supported by three legs |
grand total | the sum of the sums of several groups of numbers |
Grand Guignol | a play of a macabre or horrific nature |
grand opera | opera in which all the text is sung |
Grand Prix | one of several international races |
Grand National | an annual steeplechase run in Liverpool, England |
grand slam | winning all of the tricks in a hand of bridge |
Grand Marnier | an orange-flavored French liqueur |
grand jury | a jury to inquire into accusations of crime and to evaluate the grounds for indictments |
grand duchy | the domain controlled by a grand duke or grand duchess |
Grand Canyon National Park | a national park in Arizona including the mile deep canyon of the Colorado River which shows geologic features and fossil plants and animals |
Grand Teton National Park | a national park in Wyoming featuring mountains |
Grand Canal | an inland waterway miles long in eastern China, extends from Tianjin in the north to Hangzhou in the south |
Grand Canal | the major waterway in Venice, Italy |
Luxembourg Grand Duchy of Luxembourg Luxemburg | a grand duchy (a constitutional monarchy) landlocked in northwestern Europe between France and Belgium and Germany, an international financial center |
Arizona Grand Canyon State AZ | a state in southwestern United States, site of the Grand Canyon |
Grand Rapids | a city in west central Michigan, noted for manufacturing furniture |
Grand Island | a town in south central Nebraska |
Grand Canyon | the enormous gorge of the Colorado River in northern Arizona |
Grand River | a river in southern Michigan that flows northwest to empty into Lake Michigan |
Grand Teton | a mountain peak in northwestern Wyoming, the highest peak in the Teton Range (, feet high) |
Dalai Lama Grand Lama | chief lama and once ruler of Tibet |
grand dragon | a high ranking person in the Ku Klux Klan |
grand duchess | the wife of a grand duke or a woman holding that rank in her own right |
grand duke | a prince who rules a territory |
Grand Inquisitor | director of the court of Inquisition (especially in Spain and Portugal) |
grand mufti | the chief mufti of a district |
sultan grand Turk | the ruler of a Muslim country (especially of the former Ottoman Empire) |
lowland fir lowland white fir giant fir grand fir Abies grandis | lofty fir of the Pacific coast of northwestern America having long curving branches and deep green leaves |
a thousand one thousand M K chiliad G grand thou yard | the cardinal number that is the product ofand |
grand mal generalized seizure epilepsia major | a seizure during which the patient becomes unconscious and has convulsions over the entire body |
grand mal epilepsy grand mal generalized epilepsy epilepsia major | epilepsy in which the attacks involve loss of consciousness and tonic spasms of the musculature followed by generalized jerking |
distinguished grand imposing magisterial | used of a person's appearance or behavior, befitting an eminent person, his distinguished bearing, the monarch's imposing presence, she reigned in magisterial beauty |
grand | the most important and magnificent in adornment, grand ballroom, grand staircase |
expansive grand heroic | of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope, an expansive lifestyle, in the grand manner, collecting on a grand scale, heroic undertakings |
grand | large and impressive in physical size or extent, the bridge is a grand structure |
b exalted elevated sublime grand high-flown high-minded lofty rarefied rarified idealistic noble-minded b | of high moral or intellectual value, elevated in nature or style, an exalted ideal, argue in terms of high-flown ideals- Oliver Franks, a noble and lofty concept, a grand purpose |
august grand lordly | of or befitting a lord, heir to a lordly fortune, of august lineage |
a fantastic grand howling(a) marvelous marvellous rattling(a) terrific tremendous wonderful wondrous | extraordinarily good or great , used especially as intensifiers, a fantastic trip to the Orient, the film was fantastic!, a howling success, a marvelous collection of rare books, had a rattling conversation about politics, a tremendous achievement |
deluxe gilded grand luxurious opulent princely sumptuous | rich and superior in quality, a princely sum, gilded dining rooms |