grand

IPA: grˈænd

(plural "grand") A thousand of some unit of currency, such as dollars or pounds. (Compare G.)
(music, plural "grands") A grand piano
A grandparent or grandchild.
A placename
A commune in Vosges department, Grand Est, France.
A ghost town (historic place) in Ellis County, Oklahoma, United States.
(countable) A surname.

(augmentative) Large, senior (high-ranking), intense, extreme, or exceptional
Of a large size or extent; great.
Great in size, and fine or imposing in appearance or impression; illustrious, dignified, magnificent.
Having higher rank or more dignity, size, or importance than other persons or things of the same name.
(usually in compound forms) Standing in the second or some more remote degree of parentage or descent (see grand-).
(Ireland, Northern England, colloquial, otherwise dated) Fine; lovely.
(music) Containing all the parts proper to a given form of composition.

Examples of "grand" in Sentences

However, the term grand finale is only a farce this time around.
(The sense of the term grand is taken from the French word for "large.")
Whether the engine is free or costs 20 grand is a bit irrelevant when you need a hundred grand+ in art.
"It has been said that the immortality of the soul is a 'grand peut-être' -- but still it is a _grand_ one.
Soon after this grand affair, a very _grand personage_ came not unwillingly to the end of all earthly affairs.
This reminds me of Hannity's unrelenting worrying about David Gregory or whoever used the term "grand Wizzard" the other day.
The term "grand wizard" was what got him into trouble, since that is also what the leaders of the Ku Klux Klan were once called.
Obama says he is not giving up hope for what he calls a "grand bargain" to raise the country's borrowing limit while slashing government deficits.
It was a baker's shop near where they lived, and it was rather a grand shop -- only they kept this little girl to go messages, not to the _grand_ people that came there, you know, but to the people that bought the bread when it wasn't so new -- and currant cakes that were rather stale -- like that, you know.