grande

adj

1. (US, not-comparable)Of a cup of coffee: smaller than venti but larger than tall, usually 16 ounces (~ 455 ml).
2. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of grand.

   “Almost symbolically, Lopahin still plays the peasant and Lyubov the grande mistress.”

   “A supremely happy family waved goodbye to an elderly grande dame and a namesake who had just enrolled in her first lesson in becoming a grande lady.[…]In Litchfield, Connecticut, the Hutchinson brothers rushed to tell the grande old dame her daughter was making history.”

   “In Shannon O’Cork’s The Murder of Muriel Lake, which is about a Writers of Mystery Convention (aka MWA?), grande mistress Muriel Lake was murdered.”

   “THIS GRANDE LADY IS DIS-TIN-GUISH-A-BLE IN HER DEMURE DELIVERIES. DELIGHTFUL AND DAZZLING, THE LADY IS DEFINITELY A DIVA.”

   “That made eight deaths in a matter of a few days—all of them tied inexplicably to this “grande lady” herself—Meadowdale Prison.”

noun

1. (US)A grande cup of coffee.

   “As she went to work the only concern prominent in her mind was a strong desire for a couple of grandes from Starbucks.”

   “Kevin considered bumming a cig, but he doubted any of them would part with one. Clutching their Starbucks grandes, guarding their garment bags with practiced eyes—how much sympathy could they be expected to muster?”

   ““Harrumph,” Daddy said, flipping through the morning’s deliveries – the L.A. Times, the New York Times and two grandes from Starbucks: decaf Colombian for my stressed superior, and a nonfat capp with a double espresso shot for me.”

2. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of grandee.

   “Console yourself with the practical philosophy of our countryman, Private Curtis, who was the picture of a Spanish Grande of the first class, and whom I once heard after a Lenten dinner extemporize with great good-humour this Leonine distich:⁠—“Quod deficit in ferculis / Supplebitur in poculis!””

   “When we read in almost every book in which the life of Philip is described that he was a man of haughty character with an aversion to every vulgarity; when we read of his ability in courting ladies, his manly beauty, his fine dress as a Spanish grande, we incline to think that before us stands a nobleman of kindred feelings, of carefully fostered nobility.”

   “With the exception of the vital Otto Woegerer as Juan, a Spanish grande, equally quick to draw his rapier against Hamlet as to appear a mystically presaging friend, the rest of the large cast fills its space with satisfactory competence.”

   “339. Portrait of a Spanish Grande.”

   “Else, how could it be that a little Miss Mischief dresses up as a homely little Dutch farm girl, an awkward and uncouth youth parades in the costume and with the air of a Spanish grande, the respectable, quiet housewife becomes a sailor’s sweetheart, a little boy flirt assumes the detached air of a high priest a painstaking bookkeeper masquerades as a hold-up man or a bank robber with a record as a policeman?”

name

1. (countable, uncountable)A municipality in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
2. (countable, uncountable)A surname from the Romance languages.