grant

• graunt (obsolete)

From Middle English granten, graunten, grantien, grauntien, from Anglo-Norman granter, graunter, from Old French granter, graunter, graanter, greanter (“to promise, assure, guarantee, confirm, ratify”), from a merger of Old French garantir, guarantir (“to guarantee, assure, vouch for”) (see English guarantee) and earlier cranter, craanter, creanter (“to allow, permit”), from an assumed Medieval Latin *credentāre, from Latin credere (“to believe, trust”). Alternatively, a regular reflex of Medieval Latin *credentāre with regular voicing of /k/ before a liquid plus low vowel.^[1] More at guarantee, credit.

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: gränt IPA^(key): /ɡɹɑːnt/
• (General American) enPR: grănt IPA^(key): /ɡɹænt/
• (Mid-Atlantic) enPR: grŏnt IPA^(key): /ɡɹɒnt/

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• Rhymes: -ænt, -ɑːnt

grant (third-person singular simple present grants, present participle granting, simple past and past participle granted)

1. (ditransitive) To give (permission or wish).

   Antonym: deny

   He was granted permission to attend the meeting.

   The genie granted him three wishes

2. (ditransitive) To give (bestow upon or confer, particularly in answer to prayer or request).
   • 1668 July 3, James Dalrymple, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Houſtoun” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 548:

     He Suſpends on theſe Reaſons, that Thomas Rue had granted a general Diſcharge to Adam Muſhet, who was his Conjunct, and correus debendi, after the alleadged Service, which Diſcharged Muſhet, and conſequently Houstoun his Partner.

   • c. 1930, Serenity Prayer

     God, grant me the serenity […]

   • 2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly‎^[1], volume 188, number 23, page 19:

     In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. […]

3. (transitive) To agree with (someone) on (something); to accept (something) for the sake of argument; to admit to (someone) that (something) is true.

   Synonyms: concur, concede, allow

   • a. 1921, George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah, Preface ("The Infidel Half Century"), section "In Quest of the First Cause":

     The universe exists, said the father: somebody must have made it. If that somebody exists, said I, somebody must have made him. I grant that for the sake of argument, said the Oratorian.

   • 1897, Marie Corelli, “Chapter I”, in Ziska: The Problem of a Wicked Soul, New York: Stone & Kimball, pages 23–24:

     "They are tall, certainly," said Sir Chetwynd... "I grant you they are tall. That is, the majority of them are. But I have seen short men among them. The Khedive is not taller than I am. And the Egyptian face is very deceptive. The features are often fine,—occasionally classic,—but intelligent expression is totally lacking."

4. (intransitive) To assent; to consent.^[2]
   • c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

     Before I would have granted to that act.
     But thou preferr'st thy life before thine honor.

grant (plural grants)

1. The act of granting or giving

   Synonyms: concession, allowance

   the grant of permission for a project

2. The yielding or admission of something in dispute.^[2]
3. The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon.^[2]

   I got a grant from the government to study archeology in Egypt.

4. (law) A transfer of property by deed or writing; especially, an appropriation or conveyance made by the government.^[2]

   a grant of land or of money

5. The deed or writing by which such a transfer is made.^[2]
6. (informal) An application for a grant (monetary boon to aid research or the like).

• Trang

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡrant]

grant m inan

1. grant (the thing or property granted; a gift; a boon)

   dotace a granty z evropských fondů ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   požádat o a získat grant od grantové agentury ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

• See krédo

• “grant”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “grant”, in Akademický slovník cizích slov at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz [Academic dictionary of foreign words] (in Czech), 1995

• grand
• grànt (ORB, narrow)

Inherited from Latin grandis.

grant (feminine granta or grant, masculine plural grants, feminine plural grantes or grants) (ORB, broad)

1. large

   Antonyms: pègno, petiôt, petit

• grand in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• grant in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

• grand (alternative orthography)

From Latin grandis, grandem.

grant

1. big, large

grant m or f (plural grans)

1. (early Middle French) alternative form of grand

grant

1. neuter singular of grann

• graunt (late Anglo-Norman spelling)

From Latin grandis, grandem.

grant m (oblique and nominative feminine singular grant or grande, comparative maior, superlative grandisme)

1. big, large
   • c. 1150, Thomas d'Angleterre, Le Roman de Tristan, Champion Classiques edition, →ISBN, page 168, line 2021:

     plaint sa mesaise e sa grant peine

     she lamented her suffering and her great pain

• grandur

• Middle French: grand
  • French: grand
  • Norman: grand
  • Picard: grand
  • → English: grand

• grand (alternative spelling)

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾant/

grant m or f (plural grandes)

1. apocopic form of grande; great; big; large
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 18r:

     Fue el dia t̃cero al alba dela man. ⁊ vinẏerõ truenos ⁊ relãpagos ⁊ nuf grȧt ſobrel mõt.

     On the morning of the third day there came thunder and flashes of lightning and a great cloud upon the mountain.

• Spanish: gran

Borrowed from English grant.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡrant/

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• Rhymes: -ant
• Syllabification: grant
• Homophone: grand

grant m inan (related adjective grantowy)

1. (law) grant (fund given by a person or organisation, often a public body, charitable foundation, a specialised grant-making institution, or in some cases a business with a corporate social responsibility mission, to an individual or another entity, usually, a non-profit organisation, sometimes a business or a local government body, for a specific purpose linked to public benefit)

   Coordinate terms: dofinansowanie, dotacja, subsydium, subwencja

2. research, artistic, or social project that is funded by a grant obtained through a competition

• grant in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• grant in Polish dictionaries at PWN

grant

1. indefinite neuter singular of grann