Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The quality or condition of being grand; magnificence.
  • noun Nobility or greatness of character.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The character of being grand or great; specifically, that quality or combination of qualities in an object whieh affects the imagination with a sense of sublimity or magnificence.
  • noun Synonyms Greatness, majesty, loftiness, stateliness, state, dignity, augustness, splendor, pomp, sublimity. See grand.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The state or quality of being grand; vastness; greatness; splendor; magnificence; stateliness; sublimity; dignity; elevation of thought or expression; nobility of action.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The state of being grand or splendid; magnificence.
  • noun Nobility.
  • noun archaic, rare Greatness; largeness; tallness; loftiness.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the quality of elevation of mind and exaltation of character or ideals or conduct
  • noun the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English, from Old French, from grand, great, from Latin grandis.]

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From Old French grandeur, from grand, from Latin grandis ("grown up, great").

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  • I say that the real and permanent grandeur of these States must be their religion,

    Otherwise there is just no real and permanent grandeur

    Whitman, "Starting from Paumanok"

    January 9, 2008