grant
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
- let have also: allow grant permissionMandela was allowed few visitors in prison
- 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
- be willing to concede also: concede, yield I grant you this much
- allow to have also: accord, allot grant a privilege
- bestow, especially officially also: give grant a degreegive a divorce
- give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another also: concede, yield, cede
noun
- any monetary aid
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.
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Captain Arbald, will you grant me your arm?
Representative Plays by American Dramatists — Love in '76 · Oliver Bell Bunce · Chapter 1
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For mercy’s sake, grant me a respite of three years.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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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
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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
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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