Grant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹɑːnt/
ipa: /ɡɹænt/
rhymes: -ɑːnt
rhymes: -ænt
homophone: grant
Forms: form: Grants
Etymology: 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.
Senses: examples: text: He could open that footlocker once in awhile^([sic]) and look at actual cash, loads of bills, tens, twenties, eagles, Grants, Lincolns, Washingtons.
ref: 1968, Earl Conrad, Billy Rose, Manhattan Primitive, Cleveland, Oh.: The World Publishing Company, →LCCN, page 181:
text: How much money would you have if you had […] 7 Grants? […] 20 Jeffersons and 3 Grants?
ref: 1985, David W. Lowry, Earl G. Ockenga, Walter E. Rucker, Heath General Mathematics, Lexington, Mass.: D. C. Heath and Company, →ISBN, page 55:
text: Presidents: Cash money, folding bills, the green stuff, cabbage, lettuce, bucks, dough, i.e., Washingtons ($1), Jeffersons ($2), Lincolns ($5), Jacksons ($20), Grants ($50), McKinleys ($500), Clevelands ($1,000), Madisons ($5,000), and Wilsons ($100,000).
ref: 1990, Stewart Wolpin, The Rules of Neighborhood Poker According to Hoyle®, New York, N.Y.: New Chapter Press, →ISBN, page 339:
text: How much money would you have if you had 2 Grants, 4 Washingtons, and 1 Lincoln?
ref: 1992, Mary Ann Haubner, Edward Rathmell, The Mathematics Experience, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company, published 1994, →ISBN, page 95:
text: Write an equation for each relevant clue. Solve by substitution. […] h. 10 Grants make a McKinley (M_c). i. 2 Grants make a Franklin.
ref: 1996, Alice Kaseberg, Introductory Algebra: A Just-in-Time Approach, Pacific Grove, Calif.: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 237:
text: Linus is afraid of money. Not the smaller bills, the Washingtons and Lincolns, the Jacksons and Grants, but the larger sums, the cashier’s checks with multiple zeros, the stock portfolios and escrow accounts, afraid too of what they buy, the new cars with their leather stink, the first-class seats on airplanes, the cellular phones and fax modems.
ref: 1998, Noah Hawley, A Conspiracy of Tall Men, New York, N.Y.: Harmony Books, →ISBN, page 3:
text: 9 Jacksons = / 3 Grants = / 2 Washingtons =
ref: 2001, Jennifer Edwards, Money, Westminster, Calif.: Teacher Created Materials, Inc., →ISBN, page 62:
text: THE WIND SHIFTED COURSE a few degrees and the downpouring of Jacksons and Grants and Franklins blew due east, pelting the storefronts on Market Street. The money got entangled in the telephone lines, plastered the windshields of parked cars, and fell into uncovered trash bins. […] The black dealer was sitting in a nest of money and was stuffing Grants in his jacket’s pockets.
ref: 2004, Peter Plate, chapter 24, in Fogtown: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Seven Stories Press, →ISBN, pages 158 and 160:
text: Joseph had missed the feeling of carrying a phat bankroll, one not padded with Washingtons and topped with Grants.
ref: 2010, Kehinde Garrison, American Delinquents, Anderson, S.C.: Stone Soup Press™, →ISBN, page 79:
text: I would go over to his house wide eyed, ears open, and seeking any form of obtaining money to strengthen up my outfits. I would help him count money that would spread across the entire living room. This temptation of stealing some of those Franklins, Grants, Jacksons, Hamiltons, Lincolns, Jeffersons, and Washingtons was too strong for me to resist at twelve years old.
ref: 2018, Antonio C. Nelson, Woman Pleaser, New York, N.Y.: Page Publishing, Inc, →ISBN:
synonyms: Ulysses Grant
Ulysses S. Grant
U.S. Grant
glosses: A United States fifty-dollar bill.