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supergrand en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /suːpəɹˈɡɹænd/

Etymology

From super- + grand.

Meanings

1. (rare) Exceptionally grand; of tremendous grandness.
   • I had from eleven-thirty to one P.M. an absolute supergrand talk with Adolph Meyer and John Watson. He is a grand young southerner and simply knows his behavioristic psychology in a way to make one's hair stand up. We talked my plan clear out and they are enthusiastic.... Things are going grandly. 1919, Cornelia Stratton Parker, Carleton Hubbell Parker, An American Idyll: The Life of Carleton H. Parker, Atlantic Monthly Press, →ISBN, page 109:
   • A swarm of foreshocks, the main shock, and aftershocks on the supergrand scale was that of Chilean earthquakes of 1960. 1964, Takeo Matuzawa, Study of Earthquakes, Uno Shoten, page 76:
   • Meanwhile old Mrs. Hastings would stay with him, and she never paid much attention to anything he did; so it was a perfect time to really make a grand, supergrand, hide-out! 1955, Edward Jenks, Charles Roden Buxton, Junior Guide, Volume 3 Issue 30, Review and Herald Publishing Association, page 14:

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