Gander vs Grander - What's the difference?
gander | grander |
A male goose.
* 1916 , Blanche Fisher Wright, The Original Mother Goose
A fool, simpleton
A glance, look.
(grand)
Of large size or extent; great; extensive; hence, relatively great; greatest; chief; principal.
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).
Having higher rank or more dignity, size, or importance than other persons or things of the same name.
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
One thousand dollars (compare ).
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, episode = The Hitchhiker
, title = (Cold Case)
, people = (Danny Pino)
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, 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.
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(British) One thousand pounds sterling.
(musical instruments) A grand piano
As a proper noun gander
is .As a noun grander is
.gander
English
Noun
(en noun)- Old Mother Goose / When she wanted to wander / Would ride through the air / On a very fine gander .
- 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 ganderAnagrams
* * * * ----grander
English
Adjective
(head)Anagrams
*grand
English
(Webster 1913)Adjective
(er)- a grand mountain
- a grand army
- a grand mistake
- a grand monarch
- a grand view
- a grand conception
- a grand lodge
- a grand vizier
- a grand piano