grand

Large, senior (high-ranking), intense, extreme, or exceptional

among the grandest orchestras of our time

The Grand Viziers of the Ottoman Empire.

Large, senior (high-ranking), intense, extreme, or exceptional

a grand mountain

a grand army

Large, senior (high-ranking), intense, extreme, or exceptional

a grand monarch

a grand view

Large, senior (high-ranking), intense, extreme, or exceptional

a grand lodge

a grand vizier

Standing in the second or some more remote degree of parentage or descent (see grand-).

grandfather, grandson, grand-child

A thousand of some unit of currency, such as dollars or pounds. (Compare G.)

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A thousand RPM.

One grand, two grand RPM

The engine, with more compression, carburetion, and cam timing than the Ambassador, could lounge comfortably below four grand and then rush to 7500 rpm, aided and abetted by a light flywheel and a close-ratio five-speed box.

A grand piano

A grandparent or grandchild.

Once, in Maryland, he met four families of slaves who had all been together for a hundred years: great-grands, grands, mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles, cousins, children.

Her granddaughter and great-granddaughter went with us as chaperones. Did I ever tell you that she had six grands and two great-grands? […] And Emily agrees with me it's a shame that I don't even have a grand.