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From Middle English granten, graunten, grantien, grauntien, from Anglo-Norman granter, graunter, from Old French granter, graunter, graanter, greanter (“to promise, assure, guarantee, confirm, ratify”), from a merger of Old French garantir, guarantir (“to guarantee, assure, vouch for”) (see English guarantee) and earlier cranter, craanter, creanter (“to allow, permit”), from an assumed Medieval Latin *credentāre, from Latin credere (“to believe, trust”). Alternatively, a regular reflex of Medieval Latin *credentāre with regular voicing of /k/ before a liquid plus low vowel.[1] More at guarantee, credit.

grant (third-person singular simple present grants, present participle granting, simple past and past participle granted)

  1. (ditransitive) To give (permission or wish).
    Antonym: deny
    He was granted permission to attend the meeting.
    The genie granted him three wishes
  2. (ditransitive) To give (bestow upon or confer, particularly in answer to prayer or request).
    • 1668 July 3, James Dalrymple, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Houſtoun” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 548:
      He Suſpends on theſe Reaſons, that Thomas Rue had granted a general Diſcharge to Adam Muſhet, who was his Conjunct, and correus debendi, after the alleadged Service, which Diſcharged Muſhet, and conſequently Houstoun his Partner.
    • c. 1930, Serenity Prayer
      God, grant me the serenity […]
    • 2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly‎[1], volume 188, number 23, page 19:
      In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. […]
  3. (transitive) To agree with (someone) on (something); to accept (something) for the sake of argument; to admit to (someone) that (something) is true.
    Synonyms: concur, concede, allow
    • a. 1921, George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah, Preface ("The Infidel Half Century"), section "In Quest of the First Cause":
      The universe exists, said the father: somebody must have made it. If that somebody exists, said I, somebody must have made him. I grant that for the sake of argument, said the Oratorian.
    • 1897, Marie Corelli, “Chapter I”, in Ziska: The Problem of a Wicked Soul, New York: Stone & Kimball, pages 23–24:
      "They are tall, certainly," said Sir Chetwynd... "I grant you they are tall. That is, the majority of them are. But I have seen short men among them. The Khedive is not taller than I am. And the Egyptian face is very deceptive. The features are often fine,—occasionally classic,—but intelligent expression is totally lacking."
  4. (intransitive) To assent; to consent.[2]

to give over

to bestow or confer, with or without compensation, particularly in answer to prayer or request

to admit as true what is not yet satisfactorily proved; to yield belief to; to allow; to yield; to concede

to assent; to consent

grant (plural grants)

  1. The act of granting or giving
    Synonyms: concession, allowance
    the grant of permission for a project
  2. The yielding or admission of something in dispute.[2]
  3. The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon.[2]
    I got a grant from the government to study archeology in Egypt.
  4. (law) A transfer of property by deed or writing; especially, an appropriation or conveyance made by the government.[2]
    a grant of land or of money
  5. The deed or writing by which such a transfer is made.[2]
  6. (informal) An application for a grant (monetary boon to aid research or the like).

the thing or property granted; a gift; a boon

  1. ^ Marr, Clayton. (2024). A missed regular sound change between Latin and French. Indogermanische Forschungen. 129. 281-318. 10.1515/if-2024-0012.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 “grant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

grant m inan

  1. grant (the thing or property granted; a gift; a boon)
    dotace a granty z evropských fondů ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    požádat o a získat grant od grantové agentury ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Inherited from Latin grandis.

grant (feminine granta or **grant, masculine plural grants, feminine plural grantes or grants) (ORB, broad)

  1. large
    Antonyms: pègno, petiôt, petit

From Latin grandis, grandem.

grant

  1. big, large

Borrowed from Latvian grants.

grant

  1. gravel

grant m or f (plural grans)

  1. (early Middle French) alternative form of grand

grant

  1. neuter singular of grann

From Latin grandis, grandem.

grant m (oblique and nominative feminine singular **grant or grande, comparative maior, superlative grandisme)

  1. big, large
    • c. 1150, Thomas d'Angleterre, Le Roman de Tristan, Champion Classiques edition, →ISBN, page 168, line 2021:
      plaint sa mesaise e sa grant peine
      she lamented her suffering and her great pain

grant m or f (plural grandes)

  1. apocopic form of grande; great; big; large
    • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 18r:
      Fue el dia t̃cero al alba dela man. ⁊ vinẏerõ truenos ⁊ relãpagos ⁊ nuf grȧt ſobrel mõt.
      [Fue el día tercero al alba de la man, e vinieron truenos e relampagos e nuf grant sobr'el mont.]
      On the morning of the third day there came thunder and flashes of lightning and a great cloud upon the mountain.

Borrowed from English grant.

grant m inan (related adjective grantowy)

  1. (law) grant (fund given by a person or organisation, often a public body, charitable foundation, a specialised grant-making institution, or in some cases a business with a corporate social responsibility mission, to an individual or another entity, usually, a non-profit organisation, sometimes a business or a local government body, for a specific purpose linked to public benefit)
    Coordinate terms: dofinansowanie, dotacja, subsydium, subwencja
  2. research, artistic, or social project that is funded by a grant obtained through a competition

grant

  1. indefinite neuter singular of grann