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Grandeur French Grand 12075.Grandeur 英 Grændjə D)ʒə]美 ɡrændʒɚ

正面 12075.grandeur
英 ['grændjə; -(d)ʒə]美 ['ɡrændʒɚ]

背面
释义:
n. 壮丽;庄严;宏伟
例句:
1. Columns are usually intended in architecture to add grandeur and status.圆柱在建筑中通常用来增添气势和显示地位。

1. k -----------> ch/tch.2. break => breach.
grandeur 壮丽,堂皇来自grand, 壮丽的,堂皇的。
grandeur (n.)c. 1500, "loftiness, height," from Middle French grandeur, from Old French grandor "size, height, extent, magnitude; greatness" (12c.), from grand "great" (see grand (adj.)). "Being a word of late adoption, it retains the Fr. form -eur of the suffix." Extended sense of "majesty, stateliness" in English is first recorded 1660s."

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