Read full poem →Lay the dragon-ship he builded;
'Twas the grandest ship in Norway,
With its crest and scales of green.
Dictionary Entry
Of a large size or extent; great.
In a Sentence
“a grand army”
Origin
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Common Phrases
scale grandestthing grandestscenery grandest. grandestwork grandestsight grandest
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Poetry examples for “grandest”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →In the ship-yard by the sea;
She was the grandest of all vessels,
Never ship was built in Norway
Read full poem →He moaned and mumbled to his darkening brain;
'_He was the grandest of them all--was Cain!_
'A lion laired in the hills, that none could tire;
Read full poem →Their ministers,--who in lordly wise had stirred [5]
Among the grandest objects of the sense, 25
And dealt [6] with whatsoever they found there