FromMiddle Englishgranten,graunten,grantien,grauntien, fromAnglo-Normangranter,graunter, fromOld Frenchgranter,graunter,graanter,greanter(“to promise, assure, guarantee, confirm, ratify”), from a merger ofOld Frenchgarantir,guarantir(“to guarantee, assure, vouch for”) (seeEnglishguarantee) and earliercranter,craanter,creanter(“to allow, permit”), from an assumedMedieval Latin*credentāre, fromLatincredere(“to believe, trust”). Alternatively, a regular reflex ofMedieval Latin*credentāre with regular voicing of /k/ before a liquid plus low vowel.[1] More atguarantee,credit.
grant (third-person singular simple presentgrants,present participlegranting,simple past and past participlegranted)
- (ditransitive) Togive (permission orwish).
- Antonym:deny
He wasgranted permission to attend the meeting.
The geniegranted him three wishes
- (ditransitive) Togive (bestow upon orconfer, particularly inanswer toprayer orrequest).
- 1668 July 3,James Dalrymple, “Thomas Ruecontra Andrew Houſtoun” inThe Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683),page 548:
- He Suſpends on theſe Reaſons, thatThomas Rue hadgranted a general Diſcharge toAdam Muſhet, who was his Conjunct, andcorreus debendi, after the alleadged Service, which DiſchargedMuſhet, and conſequentlyHoustoun his Partner.
- c. 1930,Serenity Prayer
God,grant me the serenity[…]
2013 May 17,George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, inThe Guardian Weekly[1], volume188, number23, page19:In order togrant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. […]
- (transitive) Toagree with (someone) on (something); toaccept (something) for thesake ofargument; toadmit to (someone) that (something) istrue.
- 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. Igrant that for the sake of argument, said the Oratorian.
1897, Marie Corelli, “Chapter I”, inZiska: The Problem of a Wicked Soul, New York: Stone & Kimball, pages23–24:"They are tall, certainly," said Sir Chetwynd... "Igrant 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."
- (intransitive) Toassent; toconsent.[2]
c.1591–1592 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act I, scene i]:Before I would havegranted to that act.
But thou preferr'st thy life before thine honor.
to give over
- Arabic:مَنَحَ(manaḥa)
- Bulgarian:предоставям (bg)(predostavjam),отпускам (bg)(otpuskam)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:授予 (zh)(shòuyǔ),發給 /发给 (zh)(fāgei, fāgěi)
- Czech:poskytnout (cs)
- Dutch:verlenen (nl)
- Finnish:myöntää (fi),suoda (fi)
- French:accorder (fr),attribuer (fr)
- Galician:outorgar (gl)
- German:gewähren (de)
- Hindi:देना (hi)(denā)
- Italian:permettere (it),concedere (it)
- Japanese:授与する (ja)(じゅよする, juyo suru)
- Maori:karāti
- Middle English:graunten
- Norwegian:tildele,overgi
- Occitan:concedir (oc)
- Portuguese:conceder (pt)
- Russian:предоставля́ть (ru) impf(predostavljátʹ),предоста́вить (ru) pf(predostávitʹ)
- Sanskrit:ददाति (sa)(dadāti)
- Spanish:otorgar (es)
- Turkish:vermek (tr),bağışlamak (tr),bahşetmek (tr)
- Ukrainian:надати pf(nadaty),надавати (uk) impf(nadavaty)
- Vietnamese:cho (vi),ban (vi),cấp (vi)
- Yiddish:שענקען(shenken)
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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
grant (pluralgrants)
- The act of granting or giving
- Synonyms:concession,allowance
thegrant of permission for a project
- The yielding or admission of something in dispute.[2]
- The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon.[2]
I got agrant from the government to study archeology in Egypt.
- (law) A transfer ofproperty bydeed or writing; especially, an appropriation orconveyance made by the government.[2]
agrant of land or of money
- The deed or writing by which such a transfer is made.[2]
- (informal) Anapplication for a grant(monetary boon to aid research or the like).
the act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; allowance; permission
the yielding or admission of something in dispute
the thing or property granted; a gift; a boon
a transfer of property by deed or writing
informal: application for money
Translations to be checked
grant m inan
- grant(the thing or property granted; a gift; a boon)
- dotace agranty z evropských fondů ―(please add an English translation of this usage example)
- požádat o a získatgrant od grantové agentury ―(please add an English translation of this usage example)
Declension ofgrant (hard masculine inanimate)
Inherited fromLatingrandis.
grant (femininegrantaorgrant,masculine pluralgrants,feminine pluralgrantesorgrants)(ORB, broad)
- large
- Antonyms:pègno,petiôt,petit
- grand in DicoFranPro:Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – ondicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
- grant in Lo trèsor Arpitan – onarpitan.eu
- grand(alternative orthography)
FromLatingrandis, grandem.
grant
- big,large
grant m orf (pluralgrans)
- (early Middle French)alternative form ofgrand
grant
- neutersingular ofgrann
- graunt(late Anglo-Norman spelling)
FromLatingrandis, grandem.
grant m (oblique and nominative feminine singulargrantorgrande,comparativemaior,superlativegrandisme)
- big,large
c.1150, Thomas d'Angleterre,Le Roman de Tristan, Champion Classiques edition,→ISBN, page168, line2021:plaint sa mesaise e sagrant peine- she lamented her suffering and her great pain
- grand(alternative spelling)
grant m orf (pluralgrandes)
- apocopic form ofgrande;great;big;large
c.1200, Almerich,Fazienda de Ultramar,f. 18r:Fue el dia t̃cero al alba dela man. ⁊ vinẏerõ truenos ⁊ relãpagos ⁊ nufgrȧt ſobrel mõt.- [Fue el día tercero al alba de la man, e vinieron truenos e relampagos e nufgrant sobr'el mont.]
- On the morning of the third day there came thunder and flashes of lightning and agreat cloud upon the mountain.
Borrowed fromEnglishgrant.
grant m inan (related adjectivegrantowy)
- (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
- research,artistic, orsocialproject that is funded by agrant obtained through a competition
- grant inWielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- grant in Polish dictionaries at PWN
grant
- indefiniteneutersingular ofgrann
