Definition of grant

"grant" in the noun sense

1. grant

any monetary aid

2. grant, subsidization, subsidisation

the act of providing a subsidy

3. grant, assignment

law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance

4. Grant, Duncan Grant, Duncan James Corrow Grant

Scottish painter cousin of Lytton Strachey and member of the Bloomsbury Group (1885-1978)

5. Grant, Cary Grant

United States actor (born in England) who was the elegant leading man in many films (1904-1986)

6. Grant, Ulysses Grant, Ulysses S. Grant, Ulysses Simpson Grant, Hiram Ulysses Grant, President Grant

18th President of the United States commander of the Union armies in the American Civil War (1822-1885)

7. concession, grant

a contract granting the right to operate a subsidiary business

"he got the beer concession at the ball park"

8. grant

a right or privilege that has been granted

"grant" in the verb sense

1. allow, grant

let have

"grant permission"

"Mandela was allowed few visitors in prison"

2. award, grant

give as judged due or on the basis of merit

"the referee awarded a free kick to the team"

"the jury awarded a million dollars to the plaintiff"

"Funds are granted to qualified researchers"

3. concede, yield, grant

be willing to concede

"I grant you this much"

4. accord, allot, grant

allow to have

"grant a privilege"

5. grant, give

bestow, especially officially

"grant a degree"

"give a divorce"

"This bill grants us new rights"

6. concede, yield, cede, grant

give over surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another

7. grant, deed over

transfer by deed

"grant land"

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Quotations for grant

To have the power to forgive,
Is empire and prerogative,
And 'tis in crowns a nobler gem,
To grant a pardon than condemn. [ Butler ]

Grant me honest fame or grant me none. [ Pope ]

How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude;
But grant me still a friend in my retreat.
Whom I may whisper - solitude is sweet. [ Cowper ]

A civil denial is better than a rude grant. [ Proverb ]

What art thou? Have not I
An arm as big as thine? A heart as big?
Thy words, I grant, ate bigger, for I wear not
My dagger in my mouth. [ William Shakespeare ]

Still all great souls still make their own content;
We to ourselves may all our wishes grant;
For, nothing coveting, we nothing want. [ Dryden ]

God grant me to contend with those that understand me. [ Proverb ]

How can He grant you what you do not desire to receive? [ St. Augustine ]

To these tears we grant him life, and pity him besides. [ Virgil ]

Grant but memory to us, and we can lose nothing by death. [ Whittier ]

God grant you fortune, my son, for knowledge avails you little. [ Spanish Proverb ]

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
The courage to change the things I can,
And the wisdom to know the difference. [ Reinhold Niebuhr, Serenity Prayer ]

It is more commendable to deny upon occasion than to grant upon none. [ Proverb ]

It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others. [ Horace ]

Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely, and conciliate those you cannot conquer. [ Caleb C. Colton ]

I smoke in bed until I have to go to sleep; I wake up in the night, sometimes once, sometimes twice; sometimes three times, and I never waste any of these opportunities to smoke. This habit is so old and dear and precious to me that I would feel as you, sir, would feel if you should lose the only moral you've got - meaning the chairman - if you've got one: I am making no charges: I will grant, here, that I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

grant in Scrabble®

The word grant is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters grant:

GRANT
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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word grant

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grant in Words With Friends™

The word grant is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters grant:

GRANT
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Word Growth involving grant

Shorter words in grant

an ant rant

an ran rant

Longer words containing grant

disintegrant disintegrants

flagrant conflagrant

flagrant flagrantly

fragrant fragrantly

fragrant fragrantness

fragrant nonfragrant

grantable

granted regranted

grantee grantees

granter granters

grantholder grantholders

granting regranting

grants disintegrants

grants migrants emigrants

grants migrants immigrants nonimmigrants

grants migrants nonmigrants

grants regrants

grants vagrants

migrant emigrant emigrants

migrant emigrant nonemigrant

migrant immigrant antiimmigrant

migrant immigrant immigrants nonimmigrants

migrant immigrant nonimmigrant nonimmigrants

migrant migrants emigrants

migrant migrants immigrants nonimmigrants

migrant migrants nonmigrants

migrant nonmigrant nonmigrants

regrant regranted

regrant regranting

regrant regrants

vagrant vagrants