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grandevous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
grande-vous
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of great age; aged; long-lived.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

Etymology

From Latin grandaevus (“old, aged”), from grandis (“grand”) + aevum (“lifetime, age”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

more grandevous (comparative) most grandevous (superlative)

Frequently Paired Words

grandevity

Questions

What does grandevous mean?
Of great age; aged; long-lived.
Where does grandevous come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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