Difference between Marvellous and Grand

What is the difference between Marvellous and Grand?

Marvellous as an adjective is exciting wonder or surprise; astonishing; wonderful. while Grand as an adjective is of large size or extent; great; extensive; hence, relatively great; greatest; chief; principal; as, a grand mountain; a grand army; a grand mistake.

Marvellous

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Exciting wonder or surprise; astonishing; wonderful.

Example sentence: It's a marvellous life, a gregarious life that we've had. We're very lucky in that way. Unlike writers or painters, we don't sit down in front of a blank canvas and say, 'How do I start? Where do I start?'

Grand

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Of large size or extent; great; extensive; hence, relatively great; greatest; chief; principal; as, a grand mountain; a grand army; a grand mistake.Great in size, and fine or imposing in appearance or impression; illustrious, dignified, or noble (said of persons); majestic, splendid, magnificent, or sublime (said of things); as, a grand monarch; a grand lord; a grand general; a grand view; a grand conception.Having higher rank or more dignity, size, or importance than other persons or things of the same name; as, a grand lodge; a grand vizier; a grand piano, etc.Standing in the second or some more remote degree of parentage or descent; -- generally used in composition; as, grandfather, grandson, grandchild, etc.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: One thousand dollars.One thousand pounds sterling.

Example sentence: A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.

We hope you now know whether to use Marvellous or Grand in your sentence.

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