Grandee Definition

grăn-dē
grandees
noun
A Spanish or Portuguese nobleman of the highest rank.
Webster's New World
Used as the title for such a nobleman.
American Heritage
A man of high rank; important personage.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Grandee

Noun

Singular:
grandee
Plural:
grandees

Origin of Grandee

  • Spanish grande from Latin grandis great

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin grandis (“large, great”).

    From Wiktionary

Grandee Sentence Examples

  • His son Paul, called the duc de Beauvillier, was several times ambassador to England; he became' chief of the council of finance in 1685, governor of the dukes of Burgundy, Anjou and Berri from 1689 to 1693, minister of state in 1691, and grandee of Spain in 1701.

  • In Petersburg she had enjoyed the special protection of a grandee who occupied one of the highest posts in the Empire.

  • The majolica could, perhaps, have been intended to grace a Spanish grandee 's table in a conquered England.

  • Pembroke Howard, lawyer and bachelor, aged almost forty, was another old Virginian grandee with proved descent from the First Families.

  • The grandee's well-known mansion on the English Quay glittered with innumerable lights.

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