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grandeur (n.)
c. 1500, "loftiness, height," from 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.
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Definitions of grandeur
Dictionary entries near grandeur
grandad
grandame
grandchild
grand-daughter
grandee
grandeur
grandfather
grandfatherly
grandiloquence
grandiloquent
grandiose