Gracename/ɡɹeɪs/

• 1

  A female given name from English.

  • To The Handsome Mistress Grace Potter: As is your name, so is your comely face / Touch'd everywhere with such a diffused grace /
  • Grace does not belie her name; for she is indeed a sweet girl, modest and unassuming, and appearing to be unconscious of having done anything great or noble. - OBSERVER, Dec.16, 1838.
• 2

  A surname.

• 3

  A placename in the United States:

• 4

  A placename in the United States:

• 5

  A placename in the United States:

• 6

  A placename in the United States:

• 7

  A placename in the United States:

• 8

  A placename in the United States:

gracenoun/ɡɹeɪs/

• 1

  Charming, pleasing qualities.

  • The Princess brought grace to an otherwise dull and boring party.
  • Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
• 2

  A short prayer of thanks before or after a meal.

  • It has become less common to say grace before having dinner.
• 3

  card-gamesgamesIn the games of patience or solitaire: a special move that is normally against the rules.

• 4

  entertainmentlifestylemusicA grace note.

  • The Trill being the most usual Grace, is usually made in Closes, Cadences, and when on a long Note Exclamation or Passion is expressed, there the Trill is made in the latter part of such Note; but most usually upon binding Notes and such Notes as precede the closing Note.
• 5

  Elegant movement; elegance of movement; balance or poise.

  • The dancer moved with grace and strength.
• 6

  businessfinanceAn allowance of time granted to a debtor during which they are free of at least part of their normal obligations towards the creditor.

  • The repayment of the loan starts after a three-year grace.
  • With mounting anger the King denounced the pair, both father and son, and was about to condemn them to death when his strength gave out. Faint and trembling he was unable to walk and the sword fell from his hands as he murmured: 'May the Protector of the Buddhist Faith grant me but seven more days grace of life to be quit of this disloyal couple, father and son'.
• 7

  Favor, sanction or beneficence.

  • The minister has extended his grace to our effort.
• 8

  lifestylereligiontheologyFavor, sanction or beneficence.

  • Near-synonyms: Divine Providence, Providence
  • divine grace

graceverb/ɡɹeɪs/

• 1

  To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify.

  • He graced the room with his presence.
  • He graced the room by simply being there.
• 2

  To dignify or raise by an act of favour; to honour.

  • He might, at his pleasure, grace […]or disgrace whom he would in court.
• 3

  To supply with heavenly grace.

  • Thy first publique miracle graceth a marriage
• 4

  entertainmentlifestylemusicTo add grace notes, cadenzas, etc., to.

  • For D and E, the G and A fingers are generally used for gracing, though E is sometimes more conveniently graced by F#.