noun [U]
1 the quality of being great and impressive in appearance:
the grandeur and simplicity of Roman architecture * The hotel had an air of faded grandeur.
2 the importance or social status sb has or thinks they have:
He has a sense of grandeur about him. * She is clearly suffering from delusions of grandeur (= thinks she is more important than she really is).
seealsoGRAND
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for grandeur is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does grandeur appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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