grant
Forms
- present (v1)
- grant
- past (v2)
- granted
- past participle (v3)
- granted
- present participle
- granting
- 3rd person singular
- grants
- Plural
- grants
Definitions
1.To give (permission or wish).
- He was granted permission to attend the meeting.
2.To give (bestow upon or confer, particularly in answer to prayer or request).
3.To agree with (someone) on (something); to accept (something) for the sake of argument; to admit to (someone) that (something) is true.
- 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.
4.To assent; to consent.
1.The yielding or admission of something in dispute.
2.A transfer of property by deed or writing; especially, an appropriation or conveyance made by the government.
3.The act of granting or giving
4.The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon.
- I got a grant from the government to study archeology in Egypt.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1888
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Uncommon
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
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”).