grandeur
pronunciation
How to pronounce grandeur in British English:
UK [ˈɡrændʒə(r)]
How to pronounce grandeur in American English:
US [ˈɡrændʒər]
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- Noun:
- the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand
- the quality of being exalted in character or ideals or conduct
Word Origin
- grandeur (n.)
- c. 1500, "loftiness, height," from Middle French grandeur, from Old French grandor "size, height, extent, magnitude; greatness" (12c.), from grand "great" (see grand (adj.)). "Being a word of late adoption, it retains the Fr. form -eur of the suffix." Extended sense of "majesty, stateliness" in English is first recorded 1660s.
Example
- 1. Maintaining the ivy-clad grandeur of the traditional school is also a strain many are listed buildings .
- 2. The world famous koh-i-noor diamond accentuates the grandeur of the crown of britain 's queen elizabeth , the queen mother .
- 3. Victorian grandeur sits alongside modern poverty .
- 4. The revelation 's effect may be poetic in its grandeur .
- 5. Sometimes indifference and insensitivity permit a face to merge with the mineral grandeur of a landscape .