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grandee🔊

A high-ranking nobleman in Spain or Portugal.

(by extension) A person of high rank.

📑 Synonyms: magnate
💬 Quotations
I indicated a chair, and he sat down. This grandee was the grandson of an American of considerable note in his day, and not wholly forgotten yet,—a man who came so near being a great man that he was quite generally accounted one while he lived.
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