grandee

Examples

• All

• Columbus passes by, walking proudly down the long central alley, beside King Ferdinand and Queen Isabel and other grandees.

  Fiction book (1992)

• My mother told me that she once sat next to Lady Diana Cooper, the grandee autobiographer, on that train, and that she introduced herself, and they had a rollicking chat.

  Academic text (2001)

• For the honor of a grandee of Spain... whose pretty wife had a child... - Silence.

  Anthony Adverse (1936)

• "The local grandee," Bill Webster said.

  Fiction book (1990)

• "Yang's been made a grandee, you know," Dzhun said.

  Fiction book (2000)

• They addressed each other with pomp, as My Lord and My Lady, like the grandees of Charles V's court.

  Fiction book (1995)

• Her father was a famous playwright, a dapper, witty young man with a mustache and the profile of a Spanish grandee.

  Academic text (1994)

• Since the 1920s, a group of mayetes had rented plots in the great estate of the Duke of the Infantado, a Grandee of Spain and one of the richest men in the country, in an area called "El Cuarto de la Caza," located in the municipal territory of Fuenmayor.

  Academic text (1994)

• The grandee of Spain hosted a lavish banquet for the royal family.

• During the ceremony, a grandee adorned in rich garments was honored for his service.

Synonyms

N

noble

vsgrandee

63 5.3

A person from a high social family with a title

is more specific naming the top rank in Spain and Portugal

N

nobleman

vsgrandee

14 5.6

A man from a high social class who has a title

is focused on the highest rank, especially in Spain and Portugal

G

grande

vsgrandee

1 9.9

A very important noble person in Spain or Portugal with special rights

is the highest rank term used especially in those countries

How Grand

sovereign

33 6.8

grandee

2 9.9

magnifico

• Literature

3 9.9

dignitary

31 6.9

notable

5 4.1

Surface Forms

Etymology