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grandee

noun

gran-ˈdē

Definition of grandee

as in nobleman

a man of high birth or social position only a Spanish grandee—and no one of lesser rank—can address comments to the king and queen of Spain

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Recent Examples of grandee To further add fuel to the fire, Vinod Khosla, the Silicon Valley grandee warned at the AI summit that the country’s IT services industry will cease to exist in its current form by 2030. — Vasuki Shastry, Forbes.com, 14 Mar. 2026 Days earlier, the longtime political grandee who had a reputation as a ruthless political fixer, had stepped down as a member of the House of Lords. — Camille Behnke, NBC news, 23 Feb. 2026 An editor could pick up the phone and try to get a former secretary of state or the treasury, a grandee of the House or Senate, and probably even ex-president or vice-president and pitch them to review a book with a reasonable chance of success. — Literary Hub, 10 Feb. 2026 Instead, the concept has been perverted to mean higher-ed grandees' exclusive right to determine who participates in scholarly life. — Ilya Shapiro, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for grandee

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Lord Ruthven, a seductive nobleman modeled after Byron himself, is accompanied by the tale’s narrator and later discovered to be the very vampire described in local legends.

— Maria Papadouris, JSTOR Daily, 20 Oct. 2026
They’re also known as the Elgin Marbles, after the Scottish nobleman Lord Elgin, who was the British ambassador to Constantinople.

— Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 14 Oct. 2026

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Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen is adding a few more gentlemen (and ladies) for its third season, which has started production in UK and Morocco.

— Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2026
The man who plays Coe, Tom Brooke, stands out unmistakably as John Dashwood, the mostly amiable gentleman who inherits the estate where his half-sisters, Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret, live with their mother.

— Scott Tobias, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2026

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