Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
A United States fifty-dollar bill.
name
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryAn English surname transferred from the nickname and a Scottish clan name, from a nickname meaning "large". · A male given name transferred from the surname. · A town in Marshall County, Alabama. · An unincorporated community in Inyo County, California.
From Scottish Gaelic Grannd, from Anglo-Norman graunt (“big, large”), from Old French grant, from Latin grandis. Doublet of grand. The dollar-bill sense is from the portrait of Ulysses S. Grant featured on it.
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