grant
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: 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.
Inflected forms:
form: grants
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: granting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: granted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: granted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: grant
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: grant
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: granted
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: grant
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: grantest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: granted
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: grantedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: grants
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: granteth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: granted
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: grant
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: granted
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: grant
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: granted
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: grant
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: granting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: granted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: graunt
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: grants
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: graunt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To give (permission or wish).
pos: verb
tags: ditransitive
examples: He was granted permission to attend the meeting.
The genie granted him three wishes
gloss: To give (bestow upon or confer, particularly in answer to prayer or request).
pos: verb
tags: ditransitive
examples: 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.
c. 1930, Serenity Prayer
God, grant me the serenity[…]
In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. […]
gloss: To agree with (someone) on (something); to accept (something) for the sake of argument; to admit to (someone) that (something) is true.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
"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 expression is totally lacking."
gloss: To assent; to consent.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Before I would have granted to that act.
But thou preferr'st thy life before thine honor.
gloss: The act of granting or giving
pos: noun
examples: the grant of permission for a project
gloss: The yielding or admission of something in dispute.
pos: noun
gloss: The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon.
pos: noun
examples: I got a grant from the government to study archeology in Egypt.
gloss: A transfer of property by deed or writing; especially, an appropriation or conveyance made by the government.
pos: noun
examples: a grant of land or of money
gloss: The deed or writing by which such a transfer is made.
pos: noun
gloss: An application for a grant (monetary boon to aid research or the like).
pos: noun
tags: informal
Derived words: grantable
regrant
ungrant
block grant
capital grant
demogrant
direct grant grammar school
foregrant
grant-back
grant-forward
grant-in-aid
grant-in-kind
grant in kind
grantless
grantmaker
grantmaking
grantsman
land-grant
land grant
microgrant
revenue sharing grant
subgrant
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