1
: the quality or state of being grand : magnificence
… the glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome.—
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe2
: an instance or example of grandeur
visited the awesome grandeurs of the American West
Examples of grandeur in a Sentence
His paintings capture the beauty and grandeur of the landscape.
They are restoring the hotel to its original grandeur.
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Rejecting the streamlining and modernizing approach of many recent translations, Mendelsohn artfully reproduces the epic’s formal qualities—meter, enjambment, alliteration, assonance—and in so doing restores to Homer’s masterwork its archaic grandeur.
—Literary Hub, 10 Nov. 2025
The brazen, silly grandeur of the piece was astounding.
—David Denby, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
Because so much of the film would be shot in such close interiors, Lanthimos and his director of photography, Robbie Ryan, sought to build on their experiments with The Favourite and Poor Things by using a film format that could lend their images richness and grandeur despite the confines.
—Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 7 Nov. 2025
That’s a significant contrast to other parts of the Forbidden City, marked by wide open spaces intended to represent the grandeur of imperial power and territory.
—Fred He, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
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Literary Hub, 10 Nov. 2025
The brazen, silly grandeur of the piece was astounding.
—David Denby, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
Because so much of the film would be shot in such close interiors, Lanthimos and his director of photography, Robbie Ryan, sought to build on their experiments with The Favourite and Poor Things by using a film format that could lend their images richness and grandeur despite the confines.
—Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 7 Nov. 2025
That’s a significant contrast to other parts of the Forbidden City, marked by wide open spaces intended to represent the grandeur of imperial power and territory.
—Fred He, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
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“Grandeur.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grandeur. Accessed 18 Nov. 2025.
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grandeur
noun
gran·deur
ˈgran-jər 
1
: the quality or state of being grand : awe-inspiring magnificence
2
: something that is grand
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