Grand Prix
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- noun
- /ɡrænd priː/
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gran premio
- She won the Grand Prix last year.
- cars at the Grand Prix
- Grand Prix Challenge
It's the most iconic Grand Prix race and circuit in the world.
- It's the most iconic Grand Prix race and circuit in the world.
- If I say the stories about the Grand Prix in Long Beach, that's one thing.
- So it it was the longest Grand Prix ever to watch, that's for sure.
- It's not a, an open session like you have with with Grand Prix racing and such.
- Zane, when he got the e-mail, goes, oh, hey, Liam, pull up that Grand Prix e-mail.
Examples
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Sebastian Vettel won the Indian Grand Prix at the Buddh International Circuit a year ago.
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The American Racing Grand Prix is just moments away from starting.
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Will you be running in the Grand Prix this weekend?
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Hi, everybody, and welcome to the Pride Grand Prix 2000 opening round.
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But this is his first visit to a Grand Prix circuit.
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We're watching the Detroit Grand Prix.
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It's the most iconic Grand Prix race and circuit in the world.
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Well, he is racing in the Monaco Grand Prix tomorrow.
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Nico Rosberg took a commanding victory at the Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai today.
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Will you be running in the Grand Prix this weekend?
Synonyms
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A competition where cars race to cross the finish line first
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A competition where cars drive fast to reach the finish first
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A competition where fast cars race on a closed track
How Prestigious
Surface Forms
Morphology
grand + Prix
“Grand Prix” is a fixed French borrowing whose literal parts ('grand' = large/great; 'prix' = prize/price) do not transparently yield the specific English meaning 'an important motor race'. A B1 learner who knows the constituent words might guess 'big prize' or an important award, but would not reliably infer the motor-racing sense, so the expression functions idiomatically in English.
Etymology
Grand Prix comes from French, where grand means 'big' and prix means 'prize'. Early car races offered a large 'prize' to the winner, so the name came to mean an important motor race today.