Definitions for grail
greɪlgrail

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.0 / 1 vote

1. grailnoun

   the object of any prolonged endeavor

2. grail, Holy Grail, Sangraalnoun

   (legend) chalice used by Christ at the Last Supper

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Grailnoun

   Small particles of any kind.

   Etymology: from gréle, French.

   Hereof this gentle knight unweeting was,
   And, lying down upon the sandy grails,
   Drank of the stream as clear as crystal glass. Fairy Queen.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. GRAIL

   The Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) was an American lunar science mission in NASA's Discovery Program which used high-quality gravitational field mapping of the Moon to determine its interior structure. The two small spacecraft GRAIL A (Ebb) and GRAIL B (Flow) were launched on 10 September 2011 aboard a single launch vehicle: the most-powerful configuration of a Delta II, the 7920H-10. GRAIL A separated from the rocket about nine minutes after launch, GRAIL B followed about eight minutes later. They arrived at their orbits around the Moon 25 hours apart. The first probe entered orbit on 31 December 2011 and the second followed on 1 January 2012. The two spacecraft impacted the Lunar surface on December 17, 2012.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Grailnoun

   a book of offices in the Roman Catholic Church; a gradual

2. Grailnoun

   a broad, open dish; a chalice; -- only used of the Holy Grail

3. Grailnoun

   small particles of earth; gravel

4. Grailnoun

   one of the small feathers of a hawk

5. Etymology: [OF. greel, LL. gradale. See Gradual, n.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Grail

   grāl, n. (Spens.) small particles of any kind, as sand. [O. Fr. graile (Fr. grêle), hail—L. gracilis, slender.]

2. Grail

   See Gradual.

3. Grail

   grāl, n. in medieval legend, the Holy Cup used by Christ at the Last Supper. [Orig. the San Greal, 'Holy Dish' (not Sang Real, 'Holy Blood'), in which it is said Joseph of Arimathea collected our Lord's blood; from O. Fr. graal or greal, a flat dish—Low L. gradale, a flat dish, app. a corr. of Low L. cratella, a dim. of crater, a bowl. Diez suggests as the origin a lost cratalis, from cratus, Low L. form of crater.]

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. grail

   Repository of blood power and inheritance, such as a child.

   
   

   Submitted by anonymous on June 26, 2019  

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. GRAIL

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Grail is ranked #151532 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Grail surname appeared 108 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Grail.
   
   97.2% or 105 total occurrences were White.

Matched Categories

1. • Aim
   • Chalice
   • Legend

Anagrams for grail »

1. glair

2. argil

How to pronounce grail?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say grail in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of grail in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of grail in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of grail in a Sentence

1. Daniel Heller:

   Ultimately desalinization is the Holy Grail.

2. Kate Kruger:

   People may expect extreme precision from these products, structured products are the holy grail in this space.

3. Ardeshir Bayat:

   You can try and re-engineer human skin, but the holy grail of skin substitutes would be to get something as beautiful and perfect as what the human body has already created.

4. Vinay Somera:

   The automotive sector is the holy grail.

5. Joshua Warren:

   The weird thing, the real holy grail here, was what we picked up with this brand-new piece of technology.

Popularity rank by frequency of use