Grand Definition–adjective | 1. | impressive in size, appearance, or general effect: grand mountain scenery. | | 2. | stately, majestic, or dignified: In front of an audience her manner is grand and regal. | | 3. | highly ambitious or idealistic: grand ideas for bettering the political situation. | | 4. | magnificent or splendid: a grand palace. | | 5. | noble or revered: a grand old man. | | 6. | highest, or very high, in rank or official dignity: a grand potentate. | | 7. | main or principal; chief: the grand ballroom. | | 8. | of great importance, distinction, or pretension: a man used to entertaining grand personages. | | 9. | complete or comprehensive: a grand total. | | 10. | pretending to grandeur, as a result of minor success, good fortune, etc.; conceited: Jane is awfully grand since she got promoted. | | 11. | first-rate; very good; splendid: to have a grand time; to feel grand. | | 12. | Music. written on a large scale or for a large ensemble: a grand fugue. | –noun | 14. | Informal. an amount equal to a thousand dollars: The cops found most of the loot, but they're still missing about five grand. | |
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New Definition–adjective | 1. | of recent origin, production, purchase, etc.; having but lately come or been brought into being: a new book. | | 2. | of a kind now existing or appearing for the first time; novel: a new concept of the universe. | | 3. | having but lately or but now come into knowledge: a new chemical element. | | 4. | unfamiliar or strange (often fol. by to): ideas new to us; to visit new lands. | | 5. | having but lately come to a place, position, status, etc.: a reception for our new minister. | | 6. | unaccustomed (usually fol. by to): people new to such work. | | 7. | coming or occurring afresh; further; additional: new gains. | | 8. | fresh or unused: to start a new sheet of paper. | | 9. | (of physical or moral qualities) different and better: The vacation made a new man of him. | | 10. | other than the former or the old: a new era; in the New World. | | 11. | being the later
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or latest of two or more things of the same kind: the New Testament; a new edition of Shakespeare. | | 12. | (initial capital letter ) (of a language) in its latest known period, esp. as a living language at the present time: New High German. | –adverb | 13. | recently or lately (usually used in combination): The valley was green with new-planted crops. | | 14. | freshly; anew or afresh (often used in combination): roses new washed with dew; new-mown hay. | –noun | 15. | something that is new; a new object, quality, condition, etc.: Ring out the old, ring in the new. | |
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York Definition–noun | 1. | a member of the royal house of England that ruled from 1461 to 1485. | | 2. | 1st Duke of (Edmund of Langley), 1341–1402, progenitor of the house of York (son of Edward III). | | 5. | Ancient, Eboracum. a city in North Yorkshire, in NE England, on the Ouse: the capital of Roman Britain; cathedral. 102,700. | | 6. | a city in SE Pennsylvania: meeting of the Continental Congress 1777–78. 44,619. | | 7. | an estuary in E Virginia, flowing SE into Chesapeake Bay. 40 mi. (64 km) long. | | 8. | Cape, a cape at the NE extremity of Australia. | |
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