Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
name
Initialism of Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Topics: NASA, aerospace, business, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, space-science
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The Holy Grail.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Something eagerly sought or quested for.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A book of offices in the Roman Catholic Church; a gradual.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Small particles of earth; gravel.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: poetic, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
One of the small feathers of a hawk.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
(legend) chalice used by Christ at the Last Supper
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: Holy Grail, Sangraal
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: chalice, goblet
noun
the object of any prolonged endeavor
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: aim, object, objective, target
History
From Middle English graal, greal, from Old French graal, greal (“cup”), from Medieval Latin gradalis, possibly corrupted over time from Latin crater (“bowl”).
From Middle English grayel, from Old French grael, ultimately from Latin graduale. Doublet of gradual.
Uncertain; perhaps a reduced form of gravel.
Compare Old French graite slender.
