grandee
C1CEFR level
68/100Rarity: rare
FormalRegister
A person of high rank or eminence, especially within a party, profession or society.
The conference was addressed by a succession of party grandees whose careers predated most of the audience.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
Get words like grandee on your lock screen, a few a day, with review that makes them stick.
Download on the App Store Lexfall puts a new word on your home and lock screen through widgets, so you learn without opening an app. Free to download. After a free trial, a subscription unlocks every field. Built for iPhone, iOS 15.1 or later.
On a computer?Scan with your iPhone camera.