grander
更大的,更大,更高的,更大的规模
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Definitions
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grand·er, grand·est.
- : impressive in size, appearance, or general effect: grand mountain scenery.
- : stately, majestic, or dignified: In front of an audience her manner is grand and regal.
- : highly ambitious or idealistic: grand ideas for bettering the political situation.
- : magnificent or splendid: a grand palace.
- : noble or revered: a grand old man.
- : highest, or very high, in rank or official dignity: a grand potentate.
- : main or principal; chief: the grand ballroom.
- : of great importance, distinction, or pretension: a man used to entertaining grand personages.
- : complete or comprehensive: a grand total.
- : pretending to grandeur, as a result of minor success, good fortune, etc.; conceited: Jane is awfully grand since she got promoted.
- : first-rate; very good; splendid: to have a grand time; to feel grand.
- : Music. written on a large scale or for a large ensemble: a grand fugue.
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plural grands for 13, grand for 14.
- : grand piano.
- : Informal. an amount equal to a thousand dollars: The cops found most of the loot, but they're still missing about five grand.
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Examples
So did Alexander Hamilton, and on a grander scale than your AmEx.
Russia has far grander plans to secure its claims in the north as the permanent ice caps recede.
And while there are cutscenes that ostensibly explain the grander narrative, nothing really makes sense.
The occasion was of a grander scale, of course, and a much more elaborate production.
Impossible to tell the stories, to rekindle the grander times.
To travelers blessed with golden sunshine, the Rhine may wear a grander, nobler aspect, and to such I leave it.
It is what people call a difficult, dangerous age, and the grander she is, the greater danger of not managing her rightly.
Grander and grander the melody rose, voicing loves triumph with wondrous sweetness and palpitating rhythm.
Their humble graves are grander monuments than the trophied tombs of Romes proud conquerors upon the Appian Way.
Outside the Breakwater it was very grand, and outside Rame Head grander still, as the rollers came in after a 48 hours' gale.