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gander | grander |

As a proper noun gander

is .

As a noun grander is

.

gander

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A male goose.
  • * 1916 , Blanche Fisher Wright, The Original Mother Goose
  • Old Mother Goose / When she wanted to wander / Would ride through the air / On a very fine gander .
  • A fool, simpleton
  • A glance, look.
  • Have a gander at what he’s written.

    Synonyms

    * (sense) butcher's, butcher's hook (Cockney rhyming slang for "look")

    Derived terms

    * Michigander * what's good for the goose is good for the gander * what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (dialect) ramble, wander
  • Anagrams

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    grander

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (grand)
  • Anagrams

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    grand

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Of large size or extent; great; extensive; hence, relatively great; greatest; chief; principal.
  • a grand mountain
    a grand army
    a grand mistake
  • Great in size, and fine or imposing in appearance or impression; illustrious, dignified, or noble (said of persons); majestic, splendid, magnificent, or sublime (said of things).
  • a grand monarch
    a grand view
    a grand conception
  • Having higher rank or more dignity, size, or importance than other persons or things of the same name.
  • a grand lodge
    a grand vizier
    a grand piano
  • Standing in the second or some more remote degree of parentage or descent -- generally used in composition; as, grandfather, grandson, grandchild, etc.
  • (Ireland, Northern England) fine; lovely
  • Noun

    (grand)
  • One thousand dollars (compare ).
  • * {{quote-video
  • , date = 2003-12-21 , episode = The Hitchhiker , title = (Cold Case) , people = (Danny Pino) , role = Scotty Valens , season = 1 , number = 10 , passage = I could win ten grand over there, I still ain't paying a cabbie 300 bucks to drive me home. }}
  • (British) One thousand pounds sterling.
  • (musical instruments) A grand piano
  • Anagrams

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