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To give or confer officially or formally: grant voting rights to citizens; grant diplomatic immunity. b. To transfer (property) by a deed. 3. To concede; acknowledge: I grant that your plan is ingenious, but you still will not find many backers. n. 1. The act of granting. 2. a. Something granted, especially a giving of funds for a specific purpose: federal grants for medical research. b. The document or provision in a document by which a grant is made. 3. One of several tracts of land in New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont originally granted to an individual or a group. [Middle English granten, from Old French granter, variant of creanter, from Vulgar Latin *crēdentāre, to assure, from Latin crēdēns, crēdent-, present participle of crēdere, to believe; see kerd- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] granta·ble adj. granter n. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2022 by HarperCollins Publishers. All rights reserved. Grant, Ulysses Simpson Originally Hiram Ulysses Grant. 1822-1885. Share: Tweet The 18th president of the United States (1869-1877) and a Civil War general. After his victorious Vicksburg campaign (1862-1863), he was made commander in chief of the Union Army (1864) and accepted the surrender of Gen. Robert E. Lee at Appomattox (1865). Grant's two-term presidency was marred by widespread graft and corruption. (click for a larger image)Ulysses S. Grant 1869 portrait by Samuel Bell Waugh (1814-1885) The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2022 by HarperCollins Publishers. All rights reserved. Grant (grănt), Cary Originally Archibald Alexander Leach. 1904-1986. Share: Tweet British-born American actor noted as a leading man in screwball comedies such as Bringing Up Baby (1938) and sophisticated thrillers such as North by Northwest (1959). (click for a larger image)Cary Grant The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2022 by HarperCollins Publishers. All rights reserved. Indo-European & Semitic Roots Appendices Thousands of entries in the dictionary include etymologies that trace their origins back to reconstructed proto-languages. You can obtain more information about these forms in our online appendices: Indo-European Roots Semitic Roots The Indo-European appendix covers nearly half of the Indo-European roots that have left their mark on English words. A more complete treatment of Indo-European roots and the English words derived from them is available in our Dictionary of Indo-European Roots. 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