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3,284 words — headwords with part of speech, pronunciation, and a plain-language definition.

Grand-Goâve
proper noun
Grand-Goâve (a commune of Léogâne, Ouest department, Haiti)
synonym of Kokyangwuti (“Spider Grandmother”)
Grand-Rabbin
noun, masculine
Chief Rabbi
Grand-Remous
proper noun
a municipality of La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau Regional County Municipality, Outaouais, Quebec, Canada
Grand-Russien
noun, masculine
Great Russian
Great Barrier Reef
Grande Bleue
proper noun
synonym of mer Méditerranée (“Mediterranean Sea”)
Grande Boucle
proper noun
Tour de France
Grande Comore
proper noun
Grande Comore (an island of the Comoros)
the Great Depression
Grande Guerre
proper noun
Great War (epithet for World War I)
Grande Muette
noun, feminine
alternative letter-case form of grande muette
Grande Muraille
proper noun
Great Wall of China (an ancient Chinese fortification, almost 4,000 miles long, originally designed to protect China from the Mongols)
Grande Médie
proper noun
Great Media (the larger, southern portion of ancient Media following the latter’s partition by the Macedonians, the smaller northern portion being Atropatian Media, also known as Atropatia or Atropatene)
Grande Noirceur
proper noun
Grande Noirceur (a period in the history of Quebec during the second Union Nationale government of Premier Maurice Duplessis between 1944 and 1959, marked by economic liberalism, union busting, and Roman Catholic Church control of provincial education, healthcare and social services)
Grande Ourse
proper noun
Ursa Major (large circumpolar constellation of the northern sky)
Grande Peste
proper noun
the Black Death
Grande Russie
proper noun
Great Russia
Grande Île
proper noun
an island of Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin department, Alsace, Grand Est, France, on the Ill River; alternative form of Grande-Île; synonym of Madagascar
Grande-Bretagne
proper noun
Great Britain (a large island (sometimes also including some of the surrounding smaller islands) off the north-west coast of Western Europe, made up of England, Scotland, and Wales); Great Britain (the United Kingdom, a kingdom and country in Northern Europe including the island of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland on the northeastern portion of the island of Ireland)
Grande-Synthe
proper noun
a commune of Nord department, Hauts-de-France, France
Grande-Terre
proper noun
an island of Guadeloupe department, France
Grande-Île
proper noun
an island of Montérégie, Quebec, Canada, on the Saint Lawrence River; a suburb of Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Montérégie, Quebec, Canada, on the eponymous island; alternative form of Grande Île
an area of Paris with many entertainment venues
Grands Lacs
noun, masculine
Great Lakes (a group of five lakes on the United States-Canada border)
Grange
proper noun
Grange: a surname
Grangeasse
proper noun
A toponym in Saint-Maurin, Lot-et-Garonne
Grangé
proper noun
a French surname
Granier
proper noun
a surname
Granville
proper noun
a small town and commune of Manche department, Normandy, France
Grasse
proper noun
a surname, Grasse; Grasse; A placename
Grasset
proper noun
a surname
Graulhet
proper noun
Graulhet (a town in Tarn department, Occitania, France)
Gravettien
noun, masculine
Gravettian
Graïocèles
noun, masculine
Graioceli (an ancient tribe)
Grec
noun, masculine
Greek (resident or native of Greece); a professional cheat.
Grec de l'Antiquité
noun, masculine
ancient Greek (man)
Grecs du roi
proper noun
Grecs du roi
Grenade
proper noun
Granada (a city in Andalusia, Spain); Granada (a province of Andalusia, Spain); Grenada (an island and country in the Caribbean)
Grenadien
noun, masculine
Grenadian
Grenelle
proper noun
Grenelle (a commune of Seine department, France); Grenelle (a neighbourhood of Paris, France)
Grenelle
noun, masculine
summit, committee meeting between the government and trade unions
Grenier
proper noun
an occupational surname, Grenier
a surname
Grenoble
proper noun
Grenoble (a city, the prefecture of the department of Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France)
Grenoblois
noun, masculine
native or inhabitant of the city of Grenoble, the prefecture of the Isère department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France (usually male)
Gretzky
proper noun
a surname from Belarusian: Gretzky
Gretzky
noun, masculine
Gretzky; ellipsis of Wayne Gretzky
Grey
proper noun
a surname
Grigalachvili
proper noun
a surname from Georgian
Grignon
proper noun
a surname
Grigorescu
proper noun
a surname from Romanian
Grimaud
proper noun
a surname
Griqualand
proper noun
Griqualand
Grisons
proper noun
Grisons (a canton of Switzerland)
Groenland
proper noun
Greenland (a large self-governing dependent territory of Denmark, in North America)
Groenlandais
noun, masculine
a Greenlander
Grojean
proper noun
a French surname
Grolet
proper noun
a surname
Grondin
proper noun
a surname, Grondin