Definitions for Grant

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Grant grant

Spelling: [grant, grahnt]

IPA: /grænt, grɑnt/

Grant is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 57 anagrams from letters in Grant (agnrt).

Definitions for Grant

noun

1. something granted, as a privilege or right, a sum of money, or a tract of land:
2. the act of granting.
3. Law. a transfer of property.
4. a geographical unit in Vermont, Maine, and New Hampshire, originally a grant of land to a person or group of people.
5. Cary (Archibald Leach) 1904–86, U.S. actor, born in England.
6. Heber Jedediah [hee-ber jed-i-dahy-uh] /ˈhi bər ˌdʒɛd ɪˈdaɪ ə/ (Show IPA), 1856–1945, U.S. president of the Mormon Church 1918–45.
7. Ulysses S(impson) 1822–85, 18th president of the U.S. 1869–77: Union general in the Civil War.
8. a male given name: from a Latin word meaning “large, great.”.

Idioms

1. take for granted, to accept without question or objection; assume: to use, accept, or treat in a careless or indifferent manner:

verb (used with object)

1. to bestow or confer, especially by a formal act:
2. to give or accord:
3. to agree or accede to:
4. to admit or concede; accept for the sake of argument:
5. to transfer or convey, especially by deed or writing:

Origin of Grant

1175-1225; Middle English gra(u)nten Old French graunter, variant of crëanter Vulgar Latin *credentāre, verbal derivative of Latin crēdent-, stem of crēdēns, present participle of crēdere to

Examples for Grant

But if we grant all this licence, what can it effect after all?

It was my opportunity to grant Cora an independent moment away from being a mother, and being a wife.

But a project out of Stanford University is hoping to grant Turkers agency—and might begin to revolutionize the industry.

Yet she would not take back the words either, nor would she grant the veil.

grant's pal Howard Hughes offered to fly them back to Los Angeles in his private plane.

The archaeologist Sarah Nelson is in her eighties, and she would go dig in China this minute if she could get grant money.

Heaven rest his soul, and grant that he may not have completed The Excursion!

It does not grant citizenship or the right to stay here permanently, or offer the same benefits that citizens receive.

We had many generals who were greater than grant, but they were troubled with imaginations.

Do they think I will grant them liberties that would make me a slave?