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Look up gran in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Gran may refer to: Grandmother, affectionately known as "gran" Gran (name) Gran, the historical German
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Gran Gran may refer to: Gran Gran, the grandmother of JoJo in JoJo & Gran Gran Kanna, a character in the television series Avatar: The Last Airbender,
Knagenhjelm Gran (1822–1899) and Jens Gran, Jr. (1828–1894), and a grandfather of Gerhard Gran, Haaken Hasberg Gran and Tryggve Gran. "Jens Gran" (in Norwegian)
with UTRANs in the case of a UMTS/GSM network. A GERAN without EDGE is a GRAN, but is otherwise identical in concept. A GERAN without GSM is an ERAN. UTRAN :
GRAN
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English
English : habitational name from Grantham in Lincolnshire, of uncertain origin. The final element is Old English hÄm ‘homestead’; the first may be Old English grand ‘gravel’ or perhaps a personal name Granta, which probably originated as a byname meaning ‘snarler’. See also Graham.
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British, English
From the Large Fields or Granta's Fields
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Northern Irish
Northern Irish : shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Mealláin ‘descendant of Meallán’, a personal name that is a diminutive of meall ‘pleasant’.English (of Norman origin) : habitational name from Meulan in Seine-et-Oise.Dutch (van Mellon) : habitational name from Millun bij Keulen.Thomas and Sarah Jane Mellon came to Pittsburgh, PA, from Lower Castletown, Tyrone, Ireland, in 1818. Their grandson, the industrialist and financier Andrew William Mellon (1855–1937) is remembered not only as a businessman but also as an art collector. He served as secretary of the Treasury from 1921 to 1932.
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Scottish
Scottish surname transferred to forename use, from the name of a famous Scottish clan, from Norman grand, GRANT means "great, large."
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English
English : unexplained; possibly a variant of Grundy or Granby.
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : said to be a habitational name from Granson on Lake Neuchâtel. The first known bearer of the surname is Rigaldus de Grancione (fl. 1040). The name was taken to Britain by Otes de Grandison (died 1328) and his brother. They were among a group of Savoyards who settled in England when Henry III married a granddaughter of the Count of Savoy.
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French
French : from a diminutive of Grand. See also Grant.Italian : from a derivative of Grande.English : possibly a variant of Crandon or Craden (see Grandon).
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Anglo, Australian, British, English
From the Large Fields or Granta's Fields
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Irish
From gran “grain, corn.†Grainne in ancient Ireland was the patron of the harvest. In later legends Grainne was the name of the beautiful daughter of a High King of Ireland, Cormac Mac Art. She had been promised in marriage to the king Fionn Mac Cool (read the legend). When Grainne saw him at the wedding banquet she realised Fionn was too old for her and put a “geis,†a love spell on Fionn’s nephew, Diarmuid. They ran away together but Fionn’s pursuit prevented them from spending two consecutive nights in the same place. Megalithic sites throughout Ireland are still traditionally referred to as “the bed of Grainne and Diarmuid†(read the legend).
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English
English : probably a variant of Crandon, a habitational name from Crandon in Somerset or Crandean in Falmer, Sussex. Compare Grandin.
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English and French
English and French : occupational name for a farm bailiff, responsible for overseeing the collection of rent in kind into the barns and storehouses of the lord of the manor. This official had the Anglo-Norman French title grainger, Old French grangier, from Late Latin granicarius, a derivative of granica ‘granary’ (see Grange).
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English and French
English and French : topographic name for someone who lived by a granary, from Middle English, Old French grange (Latin granica ‘granary’, ‘barn’, from granum ‘grain’). In some cases, the surname has arisen from places named with this word, for example in Dorset and West Yorkshire in England, and in Ardèche and Jura in France. The Marquis de Lafayette owned a property named Lagrange, and there used to be a place in VT so named in his honor.
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English
English : habitational name from a place in Nottinghamshire named Granby, from the Old Norse personal name Grani + bý ‘farmstead’.
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English and (especially) Scottish (of Norman origin), and French
English and (especially) Scottish (of Norman origin), and French : nickname from Anglo-Norman French graund, graunt ‘tall’, ‘large’ (Old French grand, grant, from Latin grandis), given either to a person of remarkable size, or else in a relative way to distinguish two bearers of the same personal name, often representatives of different generations within the same family.English and Scottish : from a medieval personal name, probably a survival into Middle English of the Old English byname Granta (see Grantham).Probably a respelling of German Grandt or Grand.The U.S. president General Ulysses S. Grant (1822–85), born in OH, was the descendant of a Puritan called Matthew Grant, who landed in Massachusetts with his wife, Priscilla, in 1630. This family of Grants continued in New England until Captain Noah Grant, having served throughout the Revolution, emigrated to PA in 1790 and later to OH.
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English
English : habitational name from Grantland in Poughill, Devon, possibly so named from an Old English personal name Granta + Old English land ‘cultivated land’, ‘estate’.
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Irish
Described as “one of the most remarkable women in Irish history†Granuaile or Grainne Ni Mhaille (ang. as Grace O’Malley) was a renowned sea captain who led a band of 200 sea-raiders from the coast of Galway in the sixteenth century. Twice widowed, twice imprisoned, fighting her enemies both Irish and English for her rights, condemned for piracy, and finally pardoned in London by Queen Elizabeth herself, her fame was celebrated in verse and song and in James Joyce’s “Finnegan’s Wake.†She is often seen as a poetic symbol for Ireland.
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : occupational name for a stonemason, Middle English, Old French mas(s)on. Compare Machen. Stonemasonry was a hugely important craft in the Middle Ages.Italian (Veneto) : from a short form of Masone.French : from a regional variant of maison ‘house’.George Mason (1725–92), the American colonial statesman who framed the VA Bill of Rights and Constitution, which was used as a model by Thomas Jefferson when drafting the Declaration of Independence, was a VA planter, fourth in descent from George Mason (?1629–?86), a royalist soldier of the English Civil War who had received land grants in VA. As well as being prominent in the affairs of VA, the family also produced the first governor of MI.
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From the Large Fields or Granta's Fields
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British, English
From the Large Fields or Granta's Fields
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Celtic
, the brilliant.
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Hindu
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Tamil
Naavinya | நாவீநà¯à®¯
New
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Indian
A cowherd, Name of dynasty
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Indian, Tamil
Name of a Prince
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English
English : variant spelling of Mears.
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Muslim
Acclaim
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Tamil
Dance performed by Goddess Parvati
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Bengali, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Telugu
Moonlight
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Tamil
Song, Poet
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Tamil
Black horse, Strong
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v. t.
To form into grains or small masses; as, to granulate powder, sugar, or metal.
n.
A whitish, granular rock, consisting of feldspar and quartz intimately mixed; -- sometimes called whitestone, and leptynite.
n.
The main constituent of the starch grain or granule, in distinction from the framework of cellulose. Unlike cellulose, it is colored blue by iodine, and is converted into dextrin and sugar by boiling acids and amylolytic ferments.
imp. & p. p.
of Granulate
n.
The state of being granulated.
v. t.
To raise in granules or small asperities; to make rough on the surface.
a.
Full of granulations.
n.
A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.
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Having a granular structure; granular; as, granuliform limestone.
v. i.
To collect or be formed into grains; as, cane juice granulates into sugar.
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The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.
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Granular.
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The child of one's grandson or granddaughter.
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Full of grains; abounding with granular substances; granular.
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Alt. of Granulated
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Granulate
n.
The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
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A daughter of one's grandson or granddaughter.
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Consisting of, or resembling, grains; crystallized in grains; granular; as, granulated sugar.
n.
The act or process of forming or crystallizing into grains; as, the granulation of powder and sugar.