--- title: G — The English dictionary with trees and pragmatics · page 21 description: The 650 words of the English dictionary under G, every meaning for a pupil and every example with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/G/page/21/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/) / [English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/) / G # G — The English dictionary · page 21 [A](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/A/) · [B](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/B/) · [C](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/C/) · [D](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/D/) · 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*Everyday, meaning 1:* How steep a slope, hill or road is.[↗](../../gradient/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (maths) A number that shows how steep a line is on a graph.[↗](../../gradient/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (art) A smooth change from one colour or shade to another.[↗](../../gradient/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The road has a steep gradient.[↗](../../gradient/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · A sign warns of a 1 in 10 gradient.[↗](../../gradient/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Work out the gradient of the line.[↗](../../gradient/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The cyclist struggled up the gradient.[↗](../../gradient/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The picture has a blue to white gradient.[↗](../../gradient/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · A gentle gradient is easier to walk up.[↗](../../gradient/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **gradual** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Happening slowly and little by little over time, not suddenly.[↗](../../gradual/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Of a slope: rising or falling gently, not steeply.[↗](../../gradual/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* There was a gradual change in the colour of the leaves.[↗](../../gradual/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The path has a gradual slope, so it is easy to walk up.[↗](../../gradual/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Her reading showed gradual improvement over the term.[↗](../../gradual/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The river caused gradual erosion of the bank.[↗](../../gradual/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The gradual rise in temperature melted the snow.[↗](../../gradual/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Learning to swim is a gradual process.[↗](../../gradual/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Our author endeavors to show the gradual emanation of all things from God, which were completely finished in ten spheres.[↗](../../gradual/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)[↗](../../gradual/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **gradually** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Gradually means slowly, a little at a time, over a period, not all at once or suddenly.[↗](../../gradually/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The ice cube gradually melted in the sun.[↗](../../gradually/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · My reading gradually got better with practice.[↗](../../gradually/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The sky gradually turned from orange to dark blue.[↗](../../gradually/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Add the flour gradually and keep stirring.[↗](../../gradually/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The temperature gradually dropped during the night.[↗](../../gradually/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The path rose gradually up the hill.[↗](../../gradually/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Gradually, the new boy made friends in the class.[↗](../../gradually/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · It wound itself round the stem and gradually got higher and higher.[↗](../../gradually/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · Our author is therefore endeavoring to show that the whole universe emanated gradually from the spirit of the one living God.[↗](../../gradually/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)[↗](../../gradually/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · It teaches that a first cause, eternal, all-wise, almighty and holy, is the origin and the centre of the whole universe, from whom gradually all beings emanated.[↗](../../gradually/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)[↗](../../gradually/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") **graduate** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (verb) To finish a course at university, college or (US) school and get a degree or diploma.[↗](../../graduate/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (noun) A person who has finished university.[↗](../../graduate/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (verb) To move up to something harder or bigger: «graduate to a big bike».[↗](../../graduate/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* (adjective, graduated) Marked with lines for measuring: «a graduated cylinder».[↗](../../graduate/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* My sister will graduate from university this summer.[↗](../../graduate/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · He is a science graduate.[↗](../../graduate/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · In America, students graduate from high school.[↗](../../graduate/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · I've graduated from stabilisers to a two-wheeler.[↗](../../graduate/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Read the scale on the graduated cylinder.[↗](../../graduate/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Graduates wear caps and gowns.[↗](../../graduate/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **graffiti** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Words or pictures painted, sprayed or scratched on walls, trains or other public places, usually without permission.[↗](../../graffiti/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Street art: large, colourful paintings on walls, sometimes made with permission.[↗](../../graffiti/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The bus shelter was covered in graffiti.[↗](../../graffiti/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The council cleaned the graffiti off the school wall.[↗](../../graffiti/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · A graffiti artist painted a beautiful mural with permission.[↗](../../graffiti/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Writing graffiti on someone's wall is against the law.[↗](../../graffiti/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · There was graffiti on the old train carriage.[↗](../../graffiti/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Our class designed a graffiti-style poster for art.[↗](../../graffiti/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **graft** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A graft is a piece of skin, bone or other body tissue moved by a surgeon to repair another part of the body.[↗](../../graft/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A graft is also a cut piece of a plant joined onto another plant so they grow together.[↗](../../graft/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (UK, Australia, informal) Graft is hard work.[↗](../../graft/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* (US) Graft is dishonest use of power to get money, like a bribe.[↗](../../graft/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 5:* As a verb, to graft means to join a plant or tissue onto another, or (UK informal) to work hard.[↗](../../graft/#m5 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The surgeon used a skin graft to cover the burn.[↗](../../graft/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Grandad grafted a pear branch onto the old tree.[↗](../../graft/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Most apple trees are grown by grafting.[↗](../../graft/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · (UK) It took a lot of hard graft to build the shed.[↗](../../graft/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · (UK) He's a real grafter; he never stops working.[↗](../../graft/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · (US) The mayor went to prison for graft.[↗](../../graft/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · (Australia) Winning the cup took years of graft.[↗](../../graft/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The bone graft helped her broken leg heal.[↗](../../graft/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **grafting** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Grafting is joining a piece cut from one plant onto another plant so that they grow together, as gardeners do with apple trees.[↗](../../grafting/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (medicine) Grafting is moving healthy skin or other tissue from one part of the body to another to repair it, for example after a bad burn.[↗](../../grafting/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (UK, informal) Grafting means working very hard, especially at tiring work: «He's been grafting all day».[↗](../../grafting/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* (US) Graft is also using power dishonestly to get money, a kind of corruption.[↗](../../grafting/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The gardener is grafting a branch onto the apple tree.[↗](../../grafting/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Grafting lets one tree grow two kinds of apples.[↗](../../grafting/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · After the fire she needed skin grafting on her arm.[↗](../../grafting/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · (UK) Dad's been grafting on the building site all week.[↗](../../grafting/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · (UK) Our team won because everyone was grafting.[↗](../../grafting/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · (UK) Learning to play the piano takes hard graft.[↗](../../grafting/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · (US) The mayor was accused of graft.[↗](../../grafting/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · We tried grafting cactus plants in science club.[↗](../../grafting/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **graham** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Graham is a boy's or man's first name and a family name.[↗](../../graham/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (US) A graham cracker is a sweet, flat wholemeal biscuit; graham flour is wholemeal wheat flour.[↗](../../graham/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* My uncle's name is Graham.[↗](../../graham/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · We made s'mores with graham crackers and marshmallows.[↗](../../graham/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Graham scored the winning goal.[↗](../../graham/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The pie has a graham cracker crust.[↗](../../graham/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Mr Graham is our new teacher.[↗](../../graham/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Graham flour makes the bread brown.[↗](../../graham/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **grail** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* a cup or dish that knights in old legends search for, said to be holy.[↗](../../grail/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The knights set out to find the Grail.[↗](../../grail/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The Grail was said to be a holy cup.[↗](../../grail/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · In the legend the fairy apple of gold is a precious prize.[↗](../../grail/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **grain** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Grain is the seeds of plants like wheat, rice, oats, barley and corn, used for food.[↗](../../grain/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A grain is one tiny hard piece of something, like a grain of sand, salt or sugar.[↗](../../grain/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* The grain of wood is the pattern of lines in it.[↗](../../grain/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* A grain of something can mean a very small amount, like a grain of truth.[↗](../../grain/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The farmer stores 500 kilograms of grain.[↗](../../grain/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Each bag holds 25 kilograms of grain.[↗](../../grain/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · A hen eats 100 grams of grain a day.[↗](../../grain/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The truck carries 3 tons of grain.[↗](../../grain/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · There were grains of sand in my shoes.[↗](../../grain/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Wholegrain bread has more fibre.[↗](../../grain/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The little red hen planted grains of wheat.[↗](../../grain/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Sand the wood along the grain.[↗](../../grain/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · He wanted to save at least some of his grain.[↗](../../grain/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · The grains shrivel under their hoes; the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.[↗](../../grain/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets JOL.1.17, JPS 1917)[↗](../../grain/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · Thy seed also would be as the sand, and the offspring of thy body like the grains thereof; his name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before Me.[↗](../../grain/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets ISA.48.19, JPS 1917)[↗](../../grain/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.[↗](../../grain/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets AMO.9.9, JPS 1917)[↗](../../grain/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") **grainy** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Grainy means having a rough texture with small bits or grains in it, like sand, or food that is not smooth.[↗](../../grainy/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A grainy photo or video is not clear and looks spotty, made of tiny dots.[↗](../../grainy/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Grainy bread or wood has a visible grain pattern.[↗](../../grainy/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The old photo of Great-Grandma is grainy and faded.[↗](../../grainy/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The custard went grainy because it got too hot.[↗](../../grainy/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The video of the UFO was too grainy to prove anything.[↗](../../grainy/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · This bread has a nice grainy texture.[↗](../../grainy/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The beach sand felt grainy between my toes.[↗](../../grainy/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · When you zoom right in, the picture becomes grainy.[↗](../../grainy/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **gram** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A gram is a small unit for measuring how heavy something is (its mass).[↗](../../gram/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") A paper clip weighs about one gram.[↗](../../gram/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A kilogram is 1000 grams.[↗](../../gram/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* In the UK the spelling gramme is sometimes seen.[↗](../../gram/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* Gram is the name of a magic sword in old Norse stories, belonging to the hero Sigurd.[↗](../../gram/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* An apple weighs 150 grams.[↗](../../gram/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · A bag has 500 grams of flour.[↗](../../gram/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Each sweet is 5 grams.[↗](../../gram/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · How many grams are in 2 kilograms?[↗](../../gram/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The recipe needs 200 g of butter.[↗](../../gram/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · This cereal has 12 grams of sugar in a bowl.[↗](../../gram/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · We weighed the leaf on the science scale: 3 grams.[↗](../../gram/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · A coin weighs about 5 grams.[↗](../../gram/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · But Sigurd waited till half of him had crawled over the pit, and then he thrust the sword Gram right into his very heart.[↗](../../gram/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") **grammar** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* The rules of a language about how words change and are put together into sentences.[↗](../../grammar/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Using those rules correctly in speech or writing.[↗](../../grammar/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A book about grammar.[↗](../../grammar/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* (UK) Short for «grammar school», a school that picks pupils by a test.[↗](../../grammar/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* We have a grammar test on Friday.[↗](../../grammar/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Check your grammar before you hand it in.[↗](../../grammar/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Every language has its own grammar.[↗](../../grammar/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · She bought a French grammar.[↗](../../grammar/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · My cousin goes to the grammar school.[↗](../../grammar/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Grammar helps us make our meaning clear.[↗](../../grammar/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · His spelling is good, but his grammar needs work.[↗](../../grammar/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Readers, geographies, histories, grammars flew in all directions.[↗](../../grammar/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · Faulniann, Gesclndite 'kr Schnft, AVien 1880, p. 257, Bickell, Hebrew Grammar, Loipiig 1877.[↗](../../grammar/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))[↗](../../grammar/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · The author of the Sefer Yetzirah apparently cautioned against the very errors and mistakes into which all writers on Hebrew grammar have fallen.[↗](../../grammar/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))[↗](../../grammar/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · When the Honorable Mayer Sulzberger heard me expressing my views on Hebrew orthography, he advised me to make a study of the Sefer Yetzirah which in his opinion constitutes the earliest Hebrew grammar extant.[↗](../../grammar/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))[↗](../../grammar/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") **grammarian** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A person who studies grammar, the rules of how words and sentences are built in a language, or who writes books about it.[↗](../../grammarian/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (informal) Someone who cares a lot about correct grammar.[↗](../../grammarian/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Pāṇini was an ancient grammarian who described Sanskrit.[↗](../../grammarian/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · A grammarian would say «fewer apples», not «less apples».[↗](../../grammarian/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The grammarian wrote a big book about English verbs.[↗](../../grammarian/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · My aunt is a real grammarian and corrects every text.[↗](../../grammarian/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Grammarians study how languages change over time.[↗](../../grammarian/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Not every grammarian agrees about split infinitives.[↗](../../grammarian/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · I replied that I had been educated as a grammarian and a poet, but that my great gift was writing.[↗](../../grammarian/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Some grammarians, though they do not con- sider the linals as separate letters, yet count the letters twenty- (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))[↗](../../grammarian/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · As is well-known, some old grammarians, among whom was the author of the "Dikduke ha-Teamim"" counted the final letters as separate letters, thus making the total number oi the letters of the alphabet twenty-seven.[↗](../../grammarian/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))[↗](../../grammarian/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · The Hebrew grammarians under Arabic influence came to believe that tliose rules of ortho- graphy which the Arab grammarians invented for the language of the Koran hold good also for the language of the Old Testament.[↗](../../grammarian/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))[↗](../../grammarian/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") **grammatical** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Correct according to the rules of grammar.[↗](../../grammatical/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To do with grammar: «a grammatical mistake».[↗](../../grammatical/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* This sentence is not grammatical.[↗](../../grammatical/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Correct the grammatical mistakes.[↗](../../grammatical/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · "We was late" is not grammatical in standard English.[↗](../../grammatical/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Her writing is clear and grammatical.[↗](../../grammatical/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Grammatical rules can be tricky.[↗](../../grammatical/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Find the grammatical error in each line.[↗](../../grammatical/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · I base it off an interpretation of the SY’s internal structure, the semantic properties of the root ספ״ר SPR, and the SY’s general grammatical inventiveness.[↗](../../grammatical/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)[↗](../../grammatical/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · In usual Hebrew grammatical terminology, the term ‘mothers’ is reserved for the אִמּוֹת קְרִיאָה immot qeriʼah, ‘mothers of reading’ (whence Latin matres lectionis), the letters אהו״י Alef-Heh-Waw-Yod which can serve to represent either consonants or vowels.[↗](../../grammatical/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)[↗](../../grammatical/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **grammatically** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* In a way that follows the rules of grammar, as in «grammatically correct».[↗](../../grammatically/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To do with grammar, as in «The two sentences are grammatically different».[↗](../../grammatically/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Make sure your sentence is grammatically correct.[↗](../../grammatically/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · «We was» is not grammatically correct in Standard English.[↗](../../grammatically/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Her story was exciting and grammatically perfect.[↗](../../grammatically/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The sentence is grammatically fine but does not make sense.[↗](../../grammatically/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Grammatically, «I» is the subject of the sentence.[↗](../../grammatically/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Read your work aloud to check it sounds grammatically right.[↗](../../grammatically/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · However, this is grammatically peculiar, as immot is usually only the construct plural of אֵם em 'mother', whose absolute plural is rather אִמָּהוֹת immahot.[↗](../../grammatically/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)[↗](../../grammatically/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **gramophone** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* An old machine for playing music from records, flat discs with grooves, often with a big horn to make the sound louder.[↗](../../gramophone/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Great-grandma danced to music on the gramophone.[↗](../../gramophone/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · You had to wind up the gramophone by hand.[↗](../../gramophone/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The museum has a gramophone with a huge brass horn.[↗](../../gramophone/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Gramophone records were made of shellac and broke easily.[↗](../../gramophone/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · In the film, an old gramophone played in the empty house.[↗](../../gramophone/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The gramophone came before the record player.[↗](../../gramophone/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **gramps** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (informal) Grandfather; a friendly name for your grandad.[↗](../../gramps/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (informal, sometimes cheeky) A way of talking to or about any old man.[↗](../../gramps/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Gramps took me fishing at the lake.[↗](../../gramps/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · «Hi, Gramps!» shouted Lily as she ran to hug him.[↗](../../gramps/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · My gramps tells the funniest stories.[↗](../../gramps/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · We baked a cake for Gramps's birthday.[↗](../../gramps/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Gramps fell asleep in his armchair after lunch.[↗](../../gramps/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Calling a stranger «gramps» is cheeky.[↗](../../gramps/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **gran** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Gran is a friendly, informal word for grandmother.[↗](../../gran/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* We are going to Gran's house for the weekend.[↗](../../gran/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · My gran makes the best scones.[↗](../../gran/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Gran, can you read me a story?[↗](../../gran/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · My gran is my mum's mum.[↗](../../gran/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Gran and Grandad live by the sea.[↗](../../gran/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · I phoned Gran on her birthday.[↗](../../gran/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/G/) … [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/G/page/20/) **21** [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/G/page/22/) … [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/G/page/33/) - ← previous: [page 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