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grandee

/gran-dee/US // grænˈdi //UK // (ɡrænˈdiː) //

爷爷,爷爷奶奶,爷爷们,爷爷奶奶们

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a man of high social position or eminence, especially a Spanish or Portuguese nobleman.

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Examples

  • Party grandees in Angela Merkel’s center-right Christian Democratic Union will choose their new leader tomorrow.

  • The corporation operated numerous tobacco plantations, kept detailed records of enslaved workers’ productivity and installed as managers priests who lived more like planter grandees than servants of Christ.

  • Strange that he should be thus happy in a receptacle of so much pain and sorrow; yet he was light-hearted as the son of a grandee.

  • On rising from the card-table, I saw a Spanish grandee, an afrancesado in exile, who had been about a fortnight in Touraine.

  • Don Jaime, as the grandee was called, decided to paint her reclining on a crimson sofa, with plants and flowers at her side.

  • During the days succeeding the arrival of the grandee, Belinchon's friends cast mocking glances at their rivals.

  • The grandee even condescended to tell her a great deal of his private history; his public one was known by everybody.