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grande dame de fer: Eiffel Tower (tower in Paris)
grande distinction: high honours
grande distribution: large retailers, supermarkets
grande finale: big final; grand final; grand finale; big finish
grande férule: giant fennel (Ferula communis)
grande gueule: bigmouth, blowhard
grande jacobée: synonym of séneçon jacobée (“common ragwort”) (Jacobaea vulgaris)
grande marée: springs; spring tide
grande muette: army, armed forces
grande musique: music of high artistic value; art music
grande parure: full dress
grande personne: grownup
grande profondeur: deep end (part of a swimming pool with relatively deep water); deep end (situation where expertise or experience is required)
grande prêtresse: high priestess
grande puissance: great power (state that has the ability to exert its influence on a global scale)
grande raie: barndoor skate (Dipturus laevis)
grande roue: Ferris wheel (an amusement ride consisting of an upright rotating wheel having seats that remain in a horizontal position as the wheel revolves)
grande surface: hypermarket
grande éclaire: greater celandine (Chelidonium majus)
grande école: grande école
grande-duchesse: grand duchess
grandement: greatly, largely, deeply (to a great extent)
grandes lèvres: labia majora
grandet: big (for one's age)
grandeur: size; magnitude, quantity; magnitude; grandeur, greatness
grandeur d'âme: magnanimity
grandeur nature: full-size, life-size; full-scale; true to life
grandiloquence: grandiloquence
grandiloquent: grandiloquent
grandiose: grandiose
grandiosement: grandiosely
grandir: to grow, get bigger; to grow up; to magnify
grandissant: growing, increasing
grandisses: second-person singular present/imperfect subjunctive of grandir
grandissime: supersized; gigantic
grandit: third-person singular present indicative/past historic of grandir
grands airs: supercilious attitude
grands dieux: good heavens! good grief! goodness me!
grange: a barn
granit: granite (general or commercial term)
granite: granite (specific or geological term)
granitique: granitic
granitiquement: granitically
granitisation: granitization
granitoïde: granitoidal
granité: granita (sorbet)
granivore: granivore
granivore: granivorous
granny-smith: Granny Smith
grano: granola (eating healthy food, supporting the protection of the environment etc.)
granola: granola
grantha: Grantha script
granulaire: granular
granularité: granularity
granulateur: granulator
granulation: granulation
granule: granule
granuler: to granulate, to grain
granuleux: grainy, granular
granulie: granulitis (acute miliary tuberculosis)