How to pronounce“grandee”in English
Let's run together the Bridget Phillipson, who's in the government, in the cabinet, talking to you, and Lord Blunkett, who was in the cabinet, seen
as a Labour grandee, both saying that this is not the time for Labour to turn in on itself. >> I just do not believe that the message
we should take from these elections is that we ought to spend time as a party amongst ourselves, arguing amongst ourselves, fighting amongst ourselves.
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Definitions of “grandee”
A high-ranking nobleman in Spain or Portugal.
“Grandees of Spain are of two sorts, this Honour being sometimes personal, sometimes hereditary. The first, the King bids be covered themselves; the second, themselves and Heirs for ever. This is all the Ceremony in making a Grandee, neither do any other priviledges belong to it; so that it is but a Chimerical and Airy Honour, without any profit; they which marry the Heiress of a Family of a Grandee of Spain, that is such hereditarily, become Grandees in right of their Wives.”
A person of high rank.
“I indicated a chair, and he sat down. This grandee was the grandson of an American of considerable note in his day, and not wholly forgotten yet,—a man who came so near being a great man that he was quite generally accounted one while he lived.”