GRAND

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Traducere în limba română

grand I. adjectiv

1. the Grand Marele (în diferite titulaturi);

the Grand National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Romania Marea Adunare Natională a Republicii Socialiste Romania;

the grand Vizier Marele Vizir;

the grand Master Marele Maestru (în ordine cavalereşti, lojile masonice etc.).

2. mare, grandios, impozant, impresionant; măreţ, solemn, înălţător, înalt;

grand style stil solemn / înalt.

3. somptuos, splendid, de paradă; (fam.) elegant, spilcuit, dichisit, bine îmbrăcat.

4. principal, mare;

grand staircase scara principală, scara mare;

grand entrance intrarea principală.

5. însemnat, foarte important, capital principal, suprem;

the grand question problemă capitală;

to make a grand mistake a face o greşeală mare, a comite o eroare gravă.

6. total, general, final;

the grand sum sumă totală;

the grand result rezultatul final.

7. aristrocatic, nobil; distins;

grand air aer distins, notă de distincţie.

8. mărinimos, cu suflet mare, cu calităţi morale deosebite, cu suflet nobil.

9. încrezut, îngâmfat, înfumurat.

10. (fam.) încântător, formidabil, excelent, minunat, admirabil, grozav;

I had a grand time m-am distrat grozav.

grand II. substantiv

(amer. sl.) (hârtie de) o mie de dolari.

◊ to do the grand a face pe grozavul, a se umfla în pene.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Things were in this state when the grand discovery was made, and Jo watched Laurie that night as she had never done before.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

And think how proud it will make us all when we hear of you in the company of Charles’s grand friends.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The feast was grand; they danced and sang; all were merry; and I only wish that you and I had been of the party.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

I find it better, grander, more complete in its style, though that style may not be the best.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

Her eyes glistened, and she looked at him proudly as she said: Ain't it grand, you writin' those sort of things.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

That evening we had a grand discussion upon our present situation and future plans, which I must describe at some length, as it led to a new departure by which we were enabled to gain a more complete knowledge of Maple White Land than might have come in many weeks of exploring.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then there were meals to be cooked in the galley, beds to make, Wolf Larsen to be attended upon, and she finished the day with a grand house-cleaning attack upon the cabin and steerage.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

It would be a grand thing for one of those girls, wouldn't it?

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

“Why, Roddy, you are grand indeed!” he cried.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Just grand," was the reply.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

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