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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (4)

1. a prominent status;
- Example: "a person of importance"
[syn: importance, grandness]

2. unusual largeness in size or extent or number;
[syn: enormousness, grandness, greatness, immenseness, immensity, sizeableness, vastness, wideness]

3. the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand;
- Example: "for magnificence and personal service there is the Queen's hotel"
- Example: "his `Hamlet' lacks the brilliance that one expects"
- Example: "it is the university that gives the scene its stately splendor"
- Example: "an imaginative mix of old-fashioned grandeur and colorful art"
- Example: "advertisers capitalize on the grandness and elegance it brings to their products"
[syn: magnificence, brilliance, splendor, splendour, grandeur, grandness]

4. splendid or imposing in size or appearance;
- Example: "the grandness of the architecture"
- Example: "impressed by the richness of the flora"
[syn: impressiveness, grandness, magnificence, richness]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Grandness \Grand"ness\, n. Grandeur. --Wollaston. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

grandness n 1: a prominent status; "a person of importance" [syn: importance, grandness] 2: unusual largeness in size or extent or number [syn: enormousness, grandness, greatness, immenseness, immensity, sizeableness, vastness, wideness] 3: the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand; "for magnificence and personal service there is the Queen's hotel"; "his `Hamlet' lacks the brilliance that one expects"; "it is the university that gives the scene its stately splendor"; "an imaginative mix of old-fashioned grandeur and colorful art"; "advertisers capitalize on the grandness and elegance it brings to their products" [syn: magnificence, brilliance, splendor, splendour, grandeur, grandness] 4: splendid or imposing in size or appearance; "the grandness of the architecture"; "impressed by the richness of the flora" [syn: impressiveness, grandness, magnificence, richness]