Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A nobleman of the highest rank in Spain or Portugal.
- noun Used as the title for such a nobleman.
- noun A person of eminence or high rank.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Spain, one of a class of noblemen of the highest rank and greatest wealth, created in the thirteenth century, and endowed with extraordinary privileges, most of which have since been abolished.
- noun Hence Any man of elevated rank or station; a nobleman.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A man of elevated rank or station; a nobleman. In Spain, a nobleman of the first rank, who may be covered in the king's presence.
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- noun a
person of highrank - noun a high ranking
nobleman inSpain orPortugal - noun the
title for a high ranking nobleman in Spain or Portugal
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a nobleman of highest rank in Spain or Portugal
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It did happen by accident that I had to go to the house of a man whom perhaps you would call a grandee, and to meet grandees there.
Phineas Finn 2004
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Millionaire and pauper, titled grandee and weeping immigrant, Ismay, the head of the White Star Company, and Jack Jones from the stoke hole were surrounded instantly.
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It did happen by accident that I had to go to the house of a man whom perhaps you would call a grandee, and to meet grandees there.
Phineas Finn Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 1869
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It did happen by accident that I had to go to the house of a man whom perhaps you would call a grandee, and to meet grandees there.
Phineas Finn 1867
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It did happen by accident that I had to go to the house of a man whom perhaps you would call a grandee, and to meet grandees there.
Phineas Finn The Irish Member Anthony Trollope 1848
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Perhaps he'll enjoy one day being of kafir status. .though of course being a 'grandee' he may expect special treatment and a little rule bending ..
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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a grandee is a more harmless animal by far than an Irish Papist.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2 Horace Walpole 1757
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Omi, "grandee", title, applied to chiefs of conquest, and to subjects holding court office; higher than muraji; inferior title in Temmu's peerage
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886
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Lord Mandelson wants to be seen as Labour 'grandee'
BBC News - Home 2010
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Sir Richard Sykes, the Huddersfield-born City grandee, is in a typically frank mood after his unceremonious ousting from Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation ENRC, just three years after the obscure Kazakh mining group hired him to confer credibility on the run-up to its London flotation.
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October 14, 2008