grande

Borrowed from Italian grande. Doublet of grand and grandee.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹɑndeɪ/, /ˈɡɹændeɪ/

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• Rhymes: -ɑndeɪ, -ændeɪ

grande (not comparable)

1. (chiefly US) Of a cup of coffee: smaller than venti but larger than tall, usually 16 ounces (~ 455 ml).

   Coordinate terms: tall, venti

grande (plural grandes)

1. (chiefly US) A grande cup of coffee.
   • 1997, J. H. Marks, Conspiracy Theory, Signet, →ISBN, page 148:

     As she went to work the only concern prominent in her mind was a strong desire for a couple of grandes from Starbucks.

   • 1998, Doug Guinan, California Screaming, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 287:

     Kevin considered bumming a cig, but he doubted any of them would part with one. Clutching their Starbucks grandes, guarding their garment bags with practiced eyes—how much sympathy could they be expected to muster?

   • 1999, Elizabeth Lenhard, Bettypalooza, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 80:

     “Harrumph,” Daddy said, flipping through the morning’s deliveries – the L.A. Times, the New York Times and two grandes from Starbucks: decaf Colombian for my stressed superior, and a nonfat capp with a double espresso shot for me.

From Spanish grande. Doublet of grand.

grande (plural grandes)

1. Alternative form of grandee.
   • 1847, T[erence] M[cMahon] Hughes, “Hercules Rafferty.—An Asturianillo.—An Irish stew.—A Bottle-Hero.—Don Tito de Chiclana.—O’Gorman.—Perils of love-making in the Peninsula.” (chapter VI), in An Overland Journey to Lisbon at the Close of 1846; with a Picture of the Actual State of Spain and Portugal, volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], page 89:

     Console yourself with the practical philosophy of our countryman, Private Curtis, who was the picture of a Spanish Grande of the first class, and whom I once heard after a Lenten dinner extemporize with great good-humour this Leonine distich:⁠—“Quod deficit in ferculis / Supplebitur in poculis!”

   • 1912, Tiemen De Vries, Dutch History, Art and Literature for Americans: Lectures Given in the University of Chicago, Eerdmans-Sevensma Company, pages 85–86:

     When we read in almost every book in which the life of Philip is described that he was a man of haughty character with an aversion to every vulgarity; when we read of his ability in courting ladies, his manly beauty, his fine dress as a Spanish grande, we incline to think that before us stands a nobleman of kindred feelings, of carefully fostered nobility.

   • 1936 November 17, The New York Times Theater Reviews, pages 15–16:

     With the exception of the vital Otto Woegerer as Juan, a Spanish grande, equally quick to draw his rapier against Hamlet as to appear a mystically presaging friend, the rest of the large cast fills its space with satisfactory competence.

   • 1943, National Academy of Design Exhibition Record, 1826-1860, page 73:

     339. Portrait of a Spanish Grande.

   • 1952, German Review, page 19:

     Else, how could it be that a little Miss Mischief dresses up as a homely little Dutch farm girl, an awkward and uncouth youth parades in the costume and with the air of a Spanish grande, the respectable, quiet housewife becomes a sailor’s sweetheart, a little boy flirt assumes the detached air of a high priest a painstaking bookkeeper masquerades as a hold-up man or a bank robber with a record as a policeman?

   • 1966, Paul Bailey, The Claws of the Hawk: The Incredible Life of Wahker the Ute, Westernlore, →LCCN, page 90:

     Already you’re dressed like a Spanish grande, b’ God!

   • 1972, Helmut Anthony Hatzfeld, The Rococo: Eroticism, Wit, and Elegance in European Literature (Pegasus Movements in Literature Series), Pegasus, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., →LCCN, page 108:

     The two plays were originally sketched with a French milieu, but after Voltaire’s revolutionary pamphlet Le Droit du seigneur (1762) it seemed safer to invent a Spanish grande and his castle Aguas Frescas—the more alluring to Beaumarchais as he knew the milieu well from his stay of eleven months in Spain.

   • 1993, Eva Šormová, editor, Don Juan and Faust in the XXth Century: Theatre Conference, 27.9. - 1.10.1991, Prague, Charles University, →ISBN, page 274:

     So the attempt to seduce Zerlina freezes not only in the cold and monumental architecture of a black marble environment and in the stiff “overstyled” costuming, but also in the unresolvable, impossible role-conflict of a Spanish Grande trying to reach for something like John Wayne’s sex appeal.

   • 1993, Sue Rich, Rawhide and Roses, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 229:

     From where they were, Hayden thought, it resembled the type of house a Spanish Grande might live in, neat, clean, with gentle arches framing the front portico.

   • 1996, Mozart Studien, volume 6, page 277:

     The essence of the opera’s entire plot is revealed in just 28 measures: in this first musical number here, »a Spanish grande, fallen in love with a young girl, endeavours to seduce her«.

   • 2000, P. C. Morantte, Brother to the Wind, New Day Publishers, →ISBN, page 45:

     Those that you see on Calle Real are owned by a Spanish grande who has a large coconut plantation.

   • 2004, Irene Awret, “Part One: Berlin”, in They’ll Have to Catch Me First: An Artist’s Coming of Age in the Third Reich, Madison, Wis.: The University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 36:

     Was it Uncle Richard’s fault that he looked like a Spanish Grande, that women rarely could resist his melancholy brown eyes smoldering with an indefinable something?

   • 2007, Koenraad Jonckheere, Adriaen Thomasz. Key (c. 1545–c. 1589): Portrait of a Calvinist Painter, Brepols, →ISBN, page 152:

     D18. Portrait of a Spanish grande

   • 2007, Karina Urbach, editor, European Aristocracies and the Radical Right 1918–1939, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 63:

     This son, James Fritz-James, was created a Spanish Grande and Duke of Liria by Philip V.

   • 2014, Peter de Vos, Confusion (Nothing Is What It Seems; 1), Kibworth Beauchamp, Leics: Matador, →ISBN, page 5:

     Gone was the affable behaviour of a loose-living playboy, replaced by the tough manners of a hard-working Chinese with the airs of a Spanish Grande.

From French grande, feminine of grand.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹænd/

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• Rhymes: -ænd

grande (comparative more grande, superlative most grande)

1. Alternative form of grand.
   • 1972, Russell Sage College, Studies in the Twentieth Century, page 79:

     Almost symbolically, Lopahin still plays the peasant and Lyubov the grande mistress.

   • 1993, Donald S. Metz, Madame President, New Saga Publishers, →ISBN, pages 147, 270:

     A supremely happy family waved goodbye to an elderly grande dame and a namesake who had just enrolled in her first lesson in becoming a grande lady. […] In Litchfield, Connecticut, the Hutchinson brothers rushed to tell the grande old dame her daughter was making history.

   • 1997, Alzina Stone Dale, Mystery Reader’s Walking Guide: New York, →ISBN, page 217:

     In Shannon O’Cork’s The Murder of Muriel Lake, which is about a Writers of Mystery Convention (aka MWA?), grande mistress Muriel Lake was murdered.

   • 2011, Richard Allen Brooks, “Dame Johnson”, in From Life to Death, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 28:

     THIS GRANDE LADY IS
     DIS-TIN-GUISH-A-BLE IN HER
     DEMURE DELIVERIES.
     DELIGHTFUL AND DAZZLING,
     THE LADY IS DEFINITELY
     A DIVA.

   • 2013, Chet Belmonte, Meadowdale: A Saga of Confinement, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 223:

     That made eight deaths in a matter of a few days—all of them tied inexplicably to this “grande lady” herself—Meadowdale Prison.

   • 2016, Victor Milán, The Dinosaur Knights, Tor Books, →ISBN, page 101:

     Her silence now had the quality of the comfortable silences between friends, not the half-respectful, half-fearful types of a servant not spoken to by her grande mistress.

   • 2016, Jennie Gilbert Ross, The Wrong Side of the Blanket, Archway Publishing, →ISBN:

     Annabella Kristina Ramona Toaltz was a grande name for a grande woman.

This form, influenced by grande dame, is chiefly used when describing a woman.

• grande école

• Gander, Garden, danger, gander, garden, graned, nadger, ranged

• gran (apocopic, before a singular noun)

From Latin grandis, grandem.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾande/ [ˈɡɾãn̪.d̪e]
• Rhymes: -ande
• Syllabification: gran‧de

grande (epicene, plural grandes)

1. large, big

   Antonym: pequeñu

• Xosé Lluis García Arias (2002–2004), “grande”, in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana [General Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Spanish), Editorial Prensa Asturiana, →ISBN
• “grande”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1ª edición, Academia de la Llingua Asturiana, 2000, →ISBN

From Latin grandis, grandem (“large, great”).

grande

1. big

From Spanish grande.

grande c (singular definite granden, plural indefinite grander)

1. grandee

From Old Danish grannæ, from Old Norse granni, from Proto-Germanic *garaznô (“neighbour”).

grande c (singular definite granden, plural indefinite grander)

1. (archaic) neighbour

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁɑ̃d/

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• Homophone: grandes
• Rhymes: -ɑ̃d

grande

1. feminine singular of grand

• danger, de rang

• gran (preceding a singular noun)

From Old Galician-Portuguese grande, from Latin grandis, grandem.

• Rhymes: -ande
• Hyphenation: gran‧de

grande m or f (plural grandes)

1. large

   Synonyms: enorme, groso

   Eso foi de maeso; máis grande que a que eu levei.

   That was from maeso; bigger than the one I took.

• “grande”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• “grande”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2025
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “grande”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “grande”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “grande”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

grande (comparative major, superlative le major or le maxime)

1. big, large

   Antonym: parve

2. great

From Latin grandem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ghrewə- (“to fell, put down, fall in”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡran.de/^[1]

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• Rhymes: -ande
• Hyphenation: gràn‧de

grande m or f (plural grandi, comparative più grande or maggiore, superlative grandissimo or massimo or sommo, diminutive grandétto or grandìno or grandettìno or grandicèllo (“tall, older (of a person)”), augmentative grandóne (“big/ostentatious spender”) or (rare) grandòtto, pejorative (rare) grandàccio)

1. of greater physical dimensions or numerosity
   1. big, large (in size or quantity)
   2. tall
   3. wide, broad
   4. long
   5. older (in age, of a person)

      sorella grande ― older sister, big sister

2. great (importance)
3. (colloquial) synonym of bravo

• The apocopic form gran may be used before singular nouns that start with a consonant. Before singular nouns that start with an impure s, using the apocopic form is ungrammatical but often used in spoken language. Before nouns that start with a vowel, grande can be elided by use of an apostrophe.

grande

1. really (intensifier)

   un gran bel piatto ― a really great dish

grande

1. great!

grande m or f by sense (plural grandi)

1. adult, grownup
2. (usually in the plural) great (person of major significance)

   i grandi della literature ― the greats of literature

grande m (uncountable)

1. greatness, magnificence

   ammirare il grande nell'arte ― to admire the greatness in art

Inherited from Old Spanish grande, from Latin grandem (“large; great”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ghrewə- (“to fell, put down, fall in”). Cognate with Spanish grande.

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grande (Hebrew spelling גראנדי)^[1]

1. big; large; great (in size)

   Antonyms: chiko, pekenyo

   Hyponym: grandisimo

   • 1979 July, Moshe Shaul, “Istoria i Dezvelopamiento del Djudeo-Espaniol”, in Aki Yerushalayim‎^[1], archived from the original on 3 December 2020, page 11:

     La primera de eyas es ke el djudeo-espaniol kontiene un grande numero de arkaizmos o sea, palavras ke eran empleadas en Espania asta el siglo XV ma ke dezparesieron dezde entonses de su vokabulario, mientres ke en el djudeo-espaniol kontinuan a existir asta oy.

     The first of them is that Judeo-Spanish contains a large number of archaisms, or rather, words that were used in Spain until the 15th century but which disappeared after then from its vocabulary, while in Judeo-Spanish they continue to be used to this day.

grande m

1. adult (grown-up)

   Synonym: adulto

2. dignitary; notable
   • 19th century, Sa'adi Besalel a-Levi, edited by Aron Rodrigue, Sarah Abrevaya Stein, A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica: The Ladino Memoir of Sa'adi Besalel A-Levi‎^[2], Stanford University Press, published 2012, →ISBN, page 239:

     Esta chirkolar me la dyeron en mi mano por ke la fuera afirmada de todos los grandes.

     They handed me this notice so that all of the dignitaries would sign it.

Accusative adverbial from the neuter form of grandis.

grande

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of grandis

grande (comparative grandius, superlative grandissimē)

1. greatly
2. (poetic) loudly, aloud
   • c. 45 CE – 96 CE, Statius, Silvae 3.1.50:

     Sed quaenam subiti, veneranda, exordia templi / dic age, Calliope; socius tibi grande sonabit / Alcides tensoque modos imitabitur arcu.

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   • c. 45 CE – 96 CE, Statius, Silvae 3.1.130:

     non tam grande sonat motis incudibus Aetne / cum Brontes Steropesque ferit, nec maior ab antris / Lemniacis fragor est ubi flammeus aegida caelat / Mulciber et castis exornat Pallada donis.

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   • c. 100 CE – c. 130 CE, Juvenal, Satires 6.517:

     grande sonat metuique iubet Septembris et austri / adventum, nisi se centum lustraverit ovis / et xerampelinas veteres donaverit ipsi, / ut quidquid subiti et magni discriminis instat / in tunicas eat et totum semel expiet annum.

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• “grande”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “grande”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “grande”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a weighty example, precedent: exemplum magnum, grande
    
  • elevated, moderate, plain style: genus dicendi grave or grande, medium, tenue (cf. Or. 5. 20; 6. 21)
    
  • exorbitant rate of interest: fenus iniquissimum, grande, grave
    
  • to incur debts on a large scale: grande, magnum (opp. exiguum) aes alienum conflare
    
• “grande”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, 1st edition. (Oxford University Press)

• grànde (Grafîa ofiçiâ)

From Latin grandem, form of grandis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡraŋ.de/

grande (masculine plural grendi, feminine plural grende)

1. big; large; great (in size)

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grande

1. feminine singular of grànd, grand

• grant ('grande' steadily replaces 'grant' during the Old French period)

grande

1. nominative feminine singular of grant
   • late 12th century, anonymous author, “La Folie de Tristan d'Oxford”, in Le Roman de Tristan, Champion Classiques edition, →ISBN, page 354, lines 67–70:

     La nef ert fort e belle e grande,
     bone cum cele k'ert markande.
     De plusurs mers chargee esteit,
     en Engleterre curre devait.

     The ship was strong and beautiful and big,
     good like a merchant's ship
     loaded with lots of different type of merchandise
     ready to set sail to England.

2. oblique feminine singular of grant

• gran, grand

From Latin grandis, grandem.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾan.de/

grande

1. big, great
   • 13th century, Cancioneiro da Ajuda, João Garcia de Guilhade, A 232: A bõa dona por que eu trobava (facsimile)

     [...] por coita grande que ſoffri

     [...] because of the great pain I suffered

• Fala: grandi
• Galician: grande
• Portuguese: grande

• gran, grand, grant

Inherited from Latin grandem (“large; great”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ghrewə- (“to fell, put down, fall in”). Cognate with Old French grant and Old Galician-Portuguese grande.

grande

1. big; large; great (in size)

• Ladino: grande
• Spanish: grande

• Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946), “grande”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 279

• ganda (Portugal, colloquial)
• grãde (obsolete, abbreviation)

From Old Galician-Portuguese grande, from Latin grandis, of uncertain origin.

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• Hyphenation: gran‧de

grande m or f (plural grandes)

2. large; great; big (of great size or extent)

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:grande

   Este livro é grande. ― This book is big.

   Este livro é maior do que aquele. ― This book is bigger than that one.

4. large; big; numerous (numerically large)

   Synonym: numeroso

   A família é muito grande. ― The family is very large.

6. (preceding nouns) great (of great importance)

   Os grandes reis da antiguidade. ― The great kings of antiquity.

8. (preceding nouns) great; magnanimous (noble and generous in spirit)

   Synonym: magnânimo

   Artur foi um grande rei. ― Arthur was a great king.

10. grown-up; mature

    Synonyms: crescido, maduro

    Já és grande, podes trabalhar. ― You’re already grown-up, you can work.

12. (followed by a city’s name) the metropolitan area of, greater

    Moro na grande Lisboa. ― I live in the metropolis of Lisbon.

    O Grande Porto é uma região metropolitana no norte de Portugal. ― Greater Porto is a metropolitan area in the north of Portugal.

• Comparative: maior
• Superlative: máximo (poetic), o maior
• Synthetic superlative: grandíssimo
• Augmentative: grandão, grandalhão
• Diminutive: grandinho, grandote

For quotations using this term, see Citations:grande.

• (antonym(s) of “of great size”): pequeno, see Thesaurus:grande

• grandeza
• grandioso

grande m or f by sense (plural grandes)

1. (Brazil, colloquial, used in the vocative) A term of address for someone

   Synonyms: amigo, chefe

• “grande”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

• gran (apocopic, preceding a singular noun)

Inherited from Old Spanish grande, from Latin grandem (“large; great”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ghrewə- (“to fell, put down, fall in”). Cognate with Ladino grande.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾande/ [ˈɡɾãn̪.d̪e]

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• Rhymes: -ande
• Syllabification: gran‧de

grande m or f (masculine and feminine plural grandes, superlative grandísimo or mayor)

1. (after the noun or predicatively) big, large

   Synonyms: (for cloth, shoe, place) amplio, voluminoso

   Antonyms: chico, pequeño

   • 2021 November 20, Ana Cucalón, “Venezuela logra récord Guinness con la orquesta más grande del mundo”, in CNN en Español‎^[4]:

     La interpretación de la marcha eslava realizada el sábado 13 de noviembre en el patio de honor de la academia militar de Caracas ganó el récord Guinness cómo la orquesta más grande del mundo al superar los 8.097 músicos tocando de forma simultánea por más de 5 minutos.

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2. (before a plural noun) great

   Synonym: grandioso

   Antonym: irrelevante

3. (about human age) aged, old

   Synonyms: anciano, viejo

   Antonyms: chico, joven, pequeño

   Mi papá ya es muy grande para hacer eso.

   My dad is now too old to do that.

• When used before and in the same noun phrase as the modified singular noun, the form gran (“great”) is used instead of grande.

grande m or f by sense (plural grandes)

1. grandee

• → English: grandee
• → German: Grande

• “grande”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024