1
- magnificent and imposing in appearance, size, or style（外表、规模或风格上）宏伟的; 壮丽的：
a grand country house
一座宏伟的乡村别墅
the dinner party was very grand.
宴会场面很壮观。
1.1
- designed to impress through scale or splendour意在以规模（或壮观）打动人的：
make a grand gesture.
做了一个夸张的手势。
1.2
- (of a person) of high rank and with an appearance and manner appropriate to it高贵的：
she was such a grand lady.
她是一位位高行劭的女士。
1.3
- large or ambitious in scope or scale大的; （对范围或规模）要求高的：
his grand design for the future of Europe
他为欧洲未来勾画的宏伟蓝图
collecting on a grand scale.
大规模的收集。
1.4
- used in names of places or buildings to suggest size or splendour大的（用于地名或建筑名）：
the Grand Canyon
大峡谷
the Grand Hotel.
大饭店。
2
- attrib. denoting the largest or most important item of its kind最大的; 最重要的：
the grand entrance.
正门。
2.1
- of the highest rank (used especially in official titles)最高的 （尤用于官衔）：
the Grand Vizier.
大维齐尔。
2.2
- Law (of a crime) serious【律】（罪行）严重的：
grand theft.
重大盗窃案。比较PETTY（义项2）。
3
- informal very good or enjoyable; excellent〈非正式〉好极了的; 令人愉快的; 很棒的：
we had a grand day.
我们度过了很愉快的一天。
4
- in combination(in names of family relationships) denoting one generation removed in ascent or descent用于家庭成员关系中 隔一代的：
a grand-niece.
侄孙女。
1
- （复同单）informal a thousand dollars or pounds〈非正式〉1,000美元; 1,000英镑：
he gets thirty-five grand a year.
他一年收入35,000美元。
2
- a grand piano三角钢琴。
短语
a（或the）grand old man of
- a man long and highly respected in (a particular field)（在某领域里长期非常受尊敬的）元老：
a grand old man of Scottish local government.
一位苏格兰地方政府的元老。
派生词
grandly
adverbgrandness
noun词源
Middle English: from Old French grant, grand, from Latin grandis 'full-grown, big, great'. The original uses were to denote family relationships （sense 4, following Old French usage） and as a title （the Grand, translating Old French le Grand ）; hence the senses'of the highest rank, of great importance'.