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Definition: Grandee |
GrandeeNoun1. A nobleman of highest rank in Spain or Portugal. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "grandee" was first used: 1598. (references) |
Etymology: Grandee \Gran*dee"\, noun. [from Spanish expression grande. See Grand.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Grandee In Spain, a nobleman of the highest rank, who has the privilege of remaining covered in the king's presence. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Nobility | Peer, peerage; house of lords, house of peers; lords, lords temporal and spiritual; noblesse; noble, nobleman; lord, lordling; grandee, magnifico, hidalgo; daimio, daimyo, samurai, shizoku; don, donship; aristocrat, swell, three-tailed bashaw; gentleman, squire, squireen, patrician, laureate. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Grandee |
| English words defined with "grandee": Bashaw ♦ Grandeeship ♦ Magnifico. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "grandee": Nergal-sharezer. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Douglas Fairbanks, dressed as a Spanish grandee, full-length portrait, seated, facing right, lighting cigarette. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Grandee" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 91.67% of the time. "Grandee" is used about 24 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 91.67% | 22 | 74,468 |
| Noun (proper) | 8.33% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 24 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
grandee joe | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "grandee"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | person me rëndësi (big wheel), fisnik i lartë, dinjitar. (various references) | |
Arabic | نبيل إسباني (don). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | важна особа (high-up, panjandrum), високопоставено лице (high hat, presence). (various references) | |
French | grand d'espagne. (various references) | |
Greek | μεγιστάνασ (magnate, tycoon), μεγιστάν, άρχοντασ (liege, Lord, magistrate, magnate, master, sire, squire, suzerain). (various references) | |
Hebrew | אציל ספר"י. (various references) | |
Hungarian | grand, mágnás (lord, magnate). (various references) | |
Italian | grande di spagna. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | andeegray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | grande de espanha. (various references) | |
Romanian | persoanã importantã (great gun, it, personage, personality, socialite), persoanã de rang mare, nobil spaniol. (various references) | |
Russian | гранд, вельможа (magnate, nobleman), знатная особа. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | osobe visokog položaja, španski plemić (hidalgo). (various references) | |
Spanish | grande (ample, appreciable, arch, big, bull, colossal, commodious, gigantic, great, hefty, high, large, lively, lusty, sizable, sizeable, sore, spanking, tall, unqualified, walloping, wide, widespread, yeoman). (various references) | |
Swedish | magnat (king, Lord, magnate, overlord, tycoon). (various references) | |
Turkish | yüksek rütbeli adam, asilzade (aristocrat, nob, nobleman). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сановник (wig), гранд, вельможа (magnate, nobleman). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | grandis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "grandee": grandees. (additional references) | |
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"Grandee" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Gandia, Gandipet, gardee, garndee, garnede, gerande, Giraudy, grance, Grancey, grande, granded, grandere, grandes, grandi, grandier, Grandiere, grandio, grandis, grando, grandure, graned, Graunde, grendy, grinde, Grindea, grindy, Grohnde, Gronden, Grundle, Gyrinidae, rwandese. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: angered, derange, enraged, grenade. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-g-n-r" | |
-1 letter: agreed, danger, dragee, earned, endear, enrage, gander, garden, geared, gender, genera, neared, ranged. | |
-2 letters: agene, agree, anger, denar, eager, eagre, eared, edger, ender, genre, grade, grand, greed, green, raged, ragee, ranee, range, redan, regna. | |
-3 letters: aged, agee, ager, dang, dare, darn, dean, dear, deer, dene, dere, drag, dree, dreg, earn, edge, egad, eger. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-g-n-r" | |
+1 letter: dangered, deranged, deranges, dungaree, endanger, engraved, enlarged, gadarene, gandered, gardened, gardener, garnered, gendarme, grandees, grenades, regained, rehanged, renegade, renegado, underage. | |
+2 letters: begroaned, denigrate, deraigned, dungarees, endangers, endearing, engrafted, engrailed, engrained, estranged, gaberdine, gangrened, gardeners, garmented, gendarmes, generated, germander, gesneriad, glandered, gratineed, greatened, greenhead, greensand, grenadier, grenadine, legendary, margented, orangeade, realigned, rechanged, reengaged, regranted, renegaded, renegades, renegados, rereading, underages, vinegared. | |
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