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grant

verb · noun US /ɡrænt/

let have

How often you will meet it

Rank 1,608 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 11,278 times across 175,160 chapters — 0.005% of every word in the library.

What it means

verb

  1. let have also: allow grant permissionMandela was allowed few visitors in prison
  2. give as judged due or on the basis of merit also: award the referee awarded a free kick to the teamthe jury awarded a million dollars to the plaintiff
  3. be willing to concede also: concede, yield I grant you this much
  4. allow to have also: accord, allot grant a privilege
  5. bestow, especially officially also: give grant a degreegive a divorce
  6. give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another also: concede, yield, cede

noun

  1. any monetary aid

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary · Princeton WordNet 3.1

grant in real books

Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.

  • Captain Arbald, will you grant me your arm?

    Representative Plays by American Dramatists — Love in '76 · Oliver Bell Bunce · Chapter 1

  • For mercy’s sake, grant me a respite of three years.

    Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1

  • This is Rupert Grant, Esquire, who can and does all there is to be done.

    The Club of Queer Trades · G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton · Chapter 1

  • General Grant was looking exactly as he had looked upon that trying occasion of ten years before--all iron and bronze self-possession.

    Following the Equator — Part 1 · Mark Twain · Chapter 1

  • At the same time I am quite ready to grant that there are horrible abuses possible under the laws connected with slavery.

    With Lee in Virginia · G. A. (George Alfred) Henty · Chapter 1

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