grand

CEFRB1

/ˈɡɹænd/

adjective

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adjective
Large, impressive, or important.
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adjective
Extra detail
Large, senior (high-ranking), intense, extreme, or exceptional

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Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

Of a large size or extent; great.
Great in size, and fine or imposing in appearance or impression; illustrious, dignified, magnificent.
Standing in the second or some more remote degree of parentage or descent (see grand-).

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One grand, two grand RPM
1979, The Four Speeds, “R.P.M.”
Once, in Maryland, he met four families of slaves who had all been together for a hundred years: great-grands, grands, mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles, cousins, children.
1987, Toni Morrison, Beloved, page 269
Her granddaughter and great-granddaughter went with us as chaperones. Did I ever tell you that she had six grands and two great-grands? […] And Emily agrees with me it's a shame that I don't even have a grand.
2012, Brenda Jackson, Texas Wild & Beyond Temptation, page 47
In the mean time, Cluffe had arrived. He was a little bit huffed and grand at being nailed as an evidence, upon a few words carelessly, or, if you will, confidentially dropped at his own mess-table, where Lowe chanced to be a guest; and certainly with no suspicion that his little story could in any way be made to elucidate the mystery of Sturk's murder.
1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard
The engine, with more compression, carburetion, and cam timing than the Ambassador, could lounge comfortably below four grand and then rush to 7500 rpm, aided and abetted by a light flywheel and a close-ratio five-speed box.
1999, Cycle World Magazine, October 1999 edition, page 60

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From Middle English grand, grond, graund, graunt, from Anglo-Norman graunt, from Old French grant, from Latin grandis. Doublet of grande and grandee.