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grant

UK/ɡɹɑːnt/

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Australia/ɡɹɐːnt/

grant verb: to give (permission or wish).

Verb

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

  1. (ditransitive) To give (permission or wish).
    • He was granted permission to attend the meeting.
    • The genie granted him three wishes
    Antonyms:
    deny
  2. (ditransitive) To give (bestow upon or confer, particularly in answer to prayer or request).
    • 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.1668 July 3, James Dalrymple, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Houſtoun” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 548
    • God, grant me the serenity[…]c. 1930, Serenity Prayer
  3. (transitive) To agree with (someone) on (something); to accept (something) for the sake of argument; to admit to (someone) that (something) is true.
    • 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.a. 1921, George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah, Preface ("The Infidel Half Century"), section "In Quest of the First Cause"
    • "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...1897, Marie Corelli, “Chapter I”, in Ziska: The Problem of a Wicked Soul, New York: Stone & Kimball, pages 23–24
    Synonyms:
    concur, concede, allow
  4. (intransitive) To assent; to consent.
    • Before I would have granted to that act.
      But thou preferr'st thy life before thine honor.c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...

Noun (1)

grant (plural grants)

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

Proper noun capitalized: Grant

Grant (countable and uncountable, plural Grants)

  1. An English surname transferred from the nickname and a Scottish clan name, from a nickname meaning "large".
  2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
  3. A town in Marshall County, Alabama.
  4. An unincorporated community in Inyo County, California.
  5. An unincorporated community in Park County, Colorado.
  6. A small city in Montgomery County, Iowa.
  7. A small city in Newaygo County, Michigan.
  8. A city in Washington County, Minnesota.
  9. A small city, the county seat of Perkins County, Nebraska.
  10. An unincorporated community in Hardin County, Ohio.
  11. An unincorporated community in Mason County, Washington.
  12. A town in Clark County, Wisconsin.
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  1. A town in Dunn County, Wisconsin.
  2. A town in Monroe County, Wisconsin.
  3. A town in Portage County, Wisconsin.
  4. A town in Rusk County, Wisconsin.
  5. A town in Shawano County, Wisconsin.
  6. A large number of townships in the United States, listed under Grant Township.
  7. A rural municipality in Saskatchewan, Canada; in full, the Rural Municipality of Grant No. 372.
  8. A former rural locality in Barcaldine Region, Queensland, Australia.
  9. A village in Tolmin, Slovenia.
  10. (abbreviation, ellipsis) Ellipsis of Grant City.
  11. (abbreviation, ellipsis) Ellipsis of Grant County.
  12. (abbreviation, ellipsis) Ellipsis of Grant Parish.
  13. (abbreviation, ellipsis) Ellipsis of Grant Town.
  14. (abbreviation, ellipsis) Ellipsis of Grant Township.

Noun (2) capitalized: Grant

Grant (plural Grants)

  1. (US, slang) A United States fifty-dollar bill.
    • He could open that footlocker once in awhile^([sic]) and look at actual cash, loads of bills, tens, twenties, eagles, Grants, Lincolns, Washingtons.1968, Earl Conrad, Billy Rose, Manhattan Primitive, Cleveland, Oh.: The World Publishing Company, →LCCN, page 181
    • How much money would you have if you had […] 7 Grants? […] 20 Jeffersons and 3 Grants?1985, David W. Lowry, Earl G. Ockenga, Walter E. Rucker, Heath General Mathematics, Lexington, Mass.: D. C. Heath and Company, →ISBN, page 55

grant meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Telugu and Malayalam

grant in Hindi

to give over
देना denā

grant in Urdu

گرانٹ

grant in Telugu

గ్రాంట్

grant in Malayalam

ഗ്രാന്റ്
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grant in Punjabi
ਗ੍ਰਾਂਟ, ਗਰਾਂਟ
grant in Sanskrit
ददाति dadāti
grant in Arabic
مَنَحَ manaḥa, مِنْحة minḥa
grant in Vietnamese
cho, ban, cấp, thừa nhận

Examples of grant in a sentence

  • The older boy won, even though his opponent had been granted a handicap of five meters.
  • The applicant now seeks leave to appeal and, if leave be granted, to appeal against these sentences.
  • In Greek mythology, Tithonus was granted immortality but not eternal youth.

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Forms of grant

Verb
third-person singular presentgrants
present participlegranting
past participlegranted
pastgranted
second-person singular present (archaic)grantest
second-person singular past (archaic)grantedst
third-person singular present (archaic)granteth
alternative form (obsolete)graunt
Noun
pluralgrants
pluralGrants
Proper noun
pluralGrants

Past tense of grant: granted

Plural of grant: grants

Origin of grant

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. More at guarantee, credit.

From Scottish Gaelic Grannd, from Anglo-Norman graunt (“big, large”), from Old French grant, from Latin grandis. Doublet of grand. The dollar-bill sense is from the portrait of Ulysses S. Grant featured on it.

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Questions about grant

What does grant mean?
Grant means to give (permission or wish).
What is grant in Hindi?
Grant in Hindi is देना (denā). See Grant meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is grant?
Grant can be a verb, a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce grant?
Grant is pronounced /ɡɹɑːnt/ (UK).
What is the past tense of grant?
The past tense of grant is granted.

Words near grant in the dictionary

  1. Granquist
  2. Granquists
  3. grans
  4. Gransnetter
  5. Gransnetters
  6. grant
  7. Grant City
  8. Grant County
  9. grant in kind
  10. Grant Parish
  11. Grant's gazelle

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Adapted from Wiktionary: grant (page history and authors); Grant (page history and authors); grant (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); grant (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); grant (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); grant (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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