supergrand

English

Alternative forms

• super-grand

Etymology

From super- +‎ grand.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /suːpəɹˈɡɹænd/

Adjective

supergrand (comparative more supergrand, superlative most supergrand)

1. (rare) Exceptionally grand; of tremendous grandness.
   • 1919, Cornelia Stratton Parker, Carleton Hubbell Parker, An American Idyll: The Life of Carleton H. Parker‎^[1], Atlantic Monthly Press, →ISBN, page 109:

     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.

   • 1955, Edward Jenks, Charles Roden Buxton, Junior Guide, Volume 3 Issue 30‎^[2], Review and Herald Publishing Association, page 14:

     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!

   • 1964, Takeo Matuzawa, Study of Earthquakes‎^[3], Uno Shoten, page 76:

     A swarm of foreshocks, the main shock, and aftershocks on the supergrand scale was that of Chilean earthquakes of 1960.

French

Noun

supergrand m (plural supergrands)

1. superpower

Further reading

• “supergrand”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.