gran
pronunciation
How to pronounce gran in British English:
UK [græn]
How to pronounce gran in American English:
US
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- Noun:
- the mother of your father or mother
Word Origin
- gran (1)
- childish abbreviation of grandmother or granny, 1863.
- gran (2)
- Italian, the form of grand before nouns.
Example
- 1. Bmw began selling the gran turismo late last year and rolled out the 5-series sedan this spring .
- 2. And yet according to professor anne-britt gran 's new research , these two groups may be the same .
- 3. La gran plaza , in the texas town of fort worth , lays on mariachi and reggaeton acts and is building a rodeo .
- 4. France 's national institute for nuclear and particle physics research collaborated with italy 's gran sasso national laboratory on the experiment at cern .
- 5. The team prepares a beam of just one type , muon neutrinos , sending them from cern to an underground laboratory at gran sasso in italy to see how many show up as a different type , tau neutrinos .