Grant

Pronunciation

• RP IPA: /ɡɹɑːnt/
• GenAm IPA: /ɡɹænt/
• Rhymes: -ænt, -ɑːnt

Alternative forms

• graunt obsolete

Origin

From Middle English granten, graunten, grantien, grauntien, from Anglo-Norman granter, graunter, from Old French granter, graunter, grantier, greanter ("to promise, assure, guarantee, confirm, ratify"), from a merger of Old French garantir, guarantir ("to guarantee, assure, vouch for", see guarantee) and earlier cranter, craanter, creanter ("to allow, permit"), from an assumed Medieval Latin *credentāre, from Latin credere ("to believe, trust"). More at guarantee, credit.

Full definition of grant

Verb

1. To give over; to make conveyance of; to give the possession or title of; to convey; -- usually in answer to petition.
2. To bestow or confer, with or without compensation, particularly in answer to prayer or request; to give.
• 1668 July 3, James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount of Stair, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew HouÅ¿toun” in The DeciÅ¿ions of the Lords of Council & SeÅ¿Å¿ion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 548:He SuÅ¿pends on theÅ¿e ReaÅ¿ons, that Thomas Rue had granted a general DiÅ¿charge to Adam MuÅ¿het, who was his Conjunct, and correus debendi, after the alleadged Service, which DiÅ¿charged MuÅ¿het, and conÅ¿equently Houstoun his Partner.
• 2013-05-17, George Monbiot, Money just makes the rich suffer, In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. …
3. To admit as true what is not yet satisfactorily proved; to yield belief to; to allow; to yield; to concede.
• a. 1921 George Bernard Shaw, , Preface ("The Infidel Half Century"), section "In Quest of the First Cause":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.

Noun

1. The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; allowance; permission.
2. The yielding or admission of something in dispute.
3. The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon.I got a grant from the government to study archeology in Egypt.''
4. (legal) A transfer of property by deed or writing; especially, an appropriation or conveyance made by the government; as, a grant of land or of money; also, the deed or writing by which the transfer is made.
5. (informal) An application for a grant (monetary boon to aid research or the like).