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grand piano en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ɡɹændˈpjænəʊ/ (UK)
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Meanings

1. A large piano in which the strings are strung horizontally in a heavy frame shaped like a harp.
   • This sofa, and a grand piano bearing a basket of faded roses, a biscuit-tin and a devastated breakfast tray, almost filled the narrow sitting-room, in the remaining corner of which another man, short, swarthy and humble, sat examining the lining of his hat. 1912, Edith Wharton, The Reef, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company:
   • A grand piano stood massively in a corner; with dark gleams on the flat surfaces like a sombre and polished sarcophagus. 1899 April, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number MII, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part III (Conclusion), page 653:

Forms

Relateds

upright piano · boudoir grand · baby grand · concert grand · parlor grand

Translations (37)

kl flygeli (type of piano) · nb flygel (type of piano) · pt piano de cauda (type of piano) · cs křídlo (type of piano) · fi flyygeli (type of piano) · it pianoforte a coda (type of piano) · hu hangversenyzongora (type of piano) · ja グランドピアノ (type of piano) · eo pianego (type of piano) · cmn 大鋼琴 /大钢琴 (type of piano) · de Flügel (type of piano) · ca piano de cua (type of piano) · nl vleugelpiano (type of piano) · ru роя́ль (type of piano) · nl vleugel (type of piano) · be рая́ль (type of piano) · sv flygel (type of piano) · vo göbapianod (type of piano) · fr piano à queue (type of piano) · sh klavir (type of piano) · pl fortepian (type of piano) · ga mórphianó (type of piano) · da flygel (type of piano) · lt rojalis (type of piano) · nn flygel (type of piano) · cmn 三角琴 (type of piano) · dsb kśidło (type of piano) · is slagharpa (type of piano) · uk роя́ль (type of piano) · kmr piyanoya mezin (type of piano) · bg роя́л (type of piano) · cmn 三角鋼琴 /三角钢琴 (type of piano) · es piano de cola (type of piano) · fa پیانوی بزرگ (type of piano) · tr kuyruklu piyano (type of piano) · el πιάνο με ουρά (type of piano) · is flygill (type of piano)