grande – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of grande

Adjective: grande

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Perifrastic

Comparativemore grande
Superlativemost grande

Sample Sentences

  • Almost symbolically, Lopahin still plays the peasant and Lyubov the grande mistress. [1972, Russell Sage College, Studies in the Twentieth Century, page 79:]
  • A supremely happy family waved goodbye to an elderly grande dame and a namesake who had just enrolled in her first lesson in becoming a grande lady.[…]In Litchfield, Connecticut, the Hutchinson brothers rushed to tell the grande old dame her daughter was making history. [1993, Donald S. Metz, Madame President, New Saga Publishers, →ISBN, pages 147, 270:]
  • In Shannon O’Cork’s The Murder of Muriel Lake, which is about a Writers of Mystery Convention (aka MWA?), grande mistress Muriel Lake was murdered. [1997, Alzina Stone Dale, Mystery Reader’s Walking Guide: New York, →ISBN, page 217:]
  • THIS GRANDE LADY IS
  • DIS-TIN-GUISH-A-BLE IN HER
  • DEMURE DELIVERIES.
  • DELIGHTFUL AND DAZZLING,
  • THE LADY IS DEFINITELY
  • A DIVA. [2011, Richard Allen Brooks, “Dame Johnson”, in From Life to Death, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 28:]
  • That made eight deaths in a matter of a few days—all of them tied inexplicably to this “grande lady” herself—Meadowdale Prison. [2013, Chet Belmonte, Meadowdale: A Saga of Confinement, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 223:]
  • Her silence now had the quality of the comfortable silences between friends, not the half-respectful, half-fearful types of a servant not spoken to by her grande mistress. [2016, Victor Milán, The Dinosaur Knights, Tor Books, →ISBN, page 101:]
  • Annabella Kristina Ramona Toaltz was a grande name for a grande woman. [2016, Jennie Gilbert Ross, The Wrong Side of the Blanket, Archway Publishing, →ISBN:]

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian grande. Doublet of grand and grandee. See: Italian Adjectives 'grande'.