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Grand piano   /grænd piˈænoʊ/   Listen
noun
Piano, Pianoforte  n.  (Mus.) A well-known musical instrument somewhat resembling the harpsichord, and consisting of a series of wires of graduated length, thickness, and tension, struck by hammers moved by keys.
Dumb piano. See Digitorium.
Grand piano. See under Grand.
Square piano, one with a horizontal frame and an oblong case.
Upright piano, one with an upright frame and vertical wires.


adjective
Grand  adj.  (compar. grander; superl. grandest)  
1.
Of large size or extent; great; extensive; hence, relatively great; greatest; chief; principal; as, a grand mountain; a grand army; a grand mistake. "Our grand foe, Satan." "Making so bold... to unseal Their grand commission."
2.
Great in size, and fine or imposing in appearance or impression; illustrious, dignifled, or noble (said of persons); majestic, splendid, magnificent, or sublime (said of things); as, a grand monarch; a grand lord; a grand general; a grand view; a grand conception. "They are the highest models of expression, the unapproached masters of the grand style."
3.
Having higher rank or more dignity, size, or importance than other persons or things of the same name; as, a grand lodge; a grand vizier; a grand piano, etc.
4.
Standing in the second or some more remote degree of parentage or descent; generalIy used in composition; as, grandfather, grandson, grandchild, etc. "What cause Mov'd our grand parents, in that happy state, Favor'd of Heaven so highly, to fall off From their Creator."
Grand action, a pianoforte action, used in grand pianos, in which special devices are employed to obtain perfect action of the hammer in striking and leaving the string.
Grand Army of the Republic, an organized voluntary association of men who served in the Union army or navy during the civil war in the United States. The order has chapters, called Posts, throughout the country.
Grand cross.
(a)
The highest rank of knighthood in the Order of the Bath.
(b)
A knight grand cross.
Grand cordon, the cordon or broad ribbon, identified with the highest grade in certain honorary orders; hence, a person who holds that grade.
Grand days (Eng. Law), certain days in the terms which are observed as holidays in the inns of court and chancery (Candlemas, Ascension, St. John Baptist's, and All Saints' Days); called also Dies non juridici.
Grand duchess.
(a)
The wife or widow of a grand duke.
(b)
A lady having the sovereignty of a duchy in her own right.
(c)
In Russia, a daughter of the Czar.
Grand duke.
(a)
A sovereign duke, inferior in rank to a king; as, the Grand Duke of Tuscany.
(b)
In Russia, a son of the Czar.
(c)
(Zool.) The European great horned owl or eagle owl (Bubo maximas).
Grand-guard, or Grandegarde, a piece of plate armor used in tournaments as an extra protection for the left shoulder and breast.
Grand juror, a member of a grand jury.
Grand jury (Law), a jury of not less than twelve men, and not more than twenty-three, whose duty it is, in private session, to examine into accusations against persons charged with crime, and if they see just cause, then to find bills of indictment against them, to be presented to the court; called also grand inquest.
Grand juryman, a grand juror.
Grand larceny. (Law) See under Larceny.
Grand lodge, the chief lodge, or governing body, among Freemasons and other secret orders.
Grand master.
(a)
The head of one of the military orders of knighthood, as the Templars, Hospitallers, etc.
(b)
The head of the order of Freemasons or of Good Templars, etc.
Grand paunch, a glutton or gourmand. (Obs.)
Grand pensionary. See under Pensionary.
Grand piano (Mus.), a large piano, usually harp-shaped, in which the wires or strings are generally triplicated, increasing the power, and all the mechanism is introduced in the most effective manner, regardless of the size of the instrument.
Grand relief (Sculp.), alto relievo.
Grand Seignior. See under Seignior.
Grand stand, the principal stand, or erection for spectators, at a, race course, etc.
Grand vicar (Eccl.), a principal vicar; an ecclesiastical delegate in France.
Grand vizier. See under Vizier.
Synonyms: Magnificent; sublime; majestic; dignified; elevated; stately; august; pompous; lofty; eralted; noble. Grand, Magnificent, Sublime. Grand, in reference to objects of taste, is applied to that which expands the mind by a sense of vastness and majesty; magnificent is applied to anything which is imposing from its splendor; sublime describes that which is awful and elevating. A cataract is grand; a rich and varied landscape is magnificent; an overhanging precipice is sublime. "Grandeur admits of degrees and modifications; but magnificence is that which has already reached the highest degree of superiority naturally belonging to the object in question."





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... the faces of all the guests, without even distinguishing them, and then stared obstinately at his own feet. When at last a stray musician with a worn face, long hair, and an eyeglass stuck into his contorted eyebrow sat down to the grand piano and flinging his hands with a sweep on the keys and his foot on the pedal, began to attack a fantasia of Liszt on a Wagner motive, Aratov could not stand it, and stole off, bearing away in his heart a vague, painful impression; across which, however, flitted something incomprehensible ...
— Dream Tales and Prose Poems • Ivan Turgenev
... a neighbouring squatter, and a couple of bicycle tourists turned up at Five-Bob that evening, and we had a jovial night. The great, richly furnished drawing-room was brilliantly lighted, and the magnificent Erard grand piano sang and rang again with music, now martial and loud, now soft and solemn, now gay and sparkling. I made the very pleasant discovery that Harold Beecham. was an excellent pianist, a gifted player on the violin, and sang with a strong, clear, well-trained tenor, which penetrated ...
— My Brilliant Career • Miles Franklin
... Club on this particular evening, and now, at three o'clock on a beautiful April afternoon, she was almost frantic with fatigue and nervousness. The house had been cleaned thoroughly the day before, rugs shaken, mirrors polished, floors oiled; the grand piano had been closed, and pushed against the wall; the reading-table had been cleared, and wheeled out under the turn of the stairway; the pretty drawing-room and square big entrance hall had been emptied to make room for the seven little card-tables that were ...
— The Rich Mrs. Burgoyne • Kathleen Norris
... style of a man who means to be a poor curate all his life; and if the few hundreds Mr. Timpson advanced toward his daughter's fortune did not suffice for the purchase of handsome furniture, together with a stock of wine, a grand piano, and the laying out of a superior flower-garden, it followed in the most rigorous manner, either that these things must be procured by some other means, or else that the Rev. Mr. Stelling must go without them, which last alternative would be an absurd procrastination ...
— The Mill on the Floss • George Eliot
... to sink into his chest, upon which the bearded chin reposed as though the whole affair were too heavy to support. At such times he gave one the impression of a massive fixture which could be about as easily moved as a grand piano, and his hosts would ...
— War-time Silhouettes • Stephen Hudson


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