Grand Prixn.

Brit.

/ˌɡrɒ̃ ˈpriː/, U.S.

/ˌɡrɑ̃ ˈpri/,

/ˌɡræn(d) ˈpri/

Inflections: Plural Grands Prix, unchanged.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French Grand Prix.

Etymology: < French Grand Prix, literally ‘great or chief prize’ (early 19th cent. in Grand Prix de Rome , as name for the artistic prize awarded since the 17th cent.; 2nd half of 19th cent. in Grand Prix de Paris ; 1905 in Grand Prix de l'Automobile Club de France ) < grand grand adj. + prix price n.

1. In full Grand Prix de Rome. The main prize in certain categories of artistic and creative endeavour awarded annually by the French government to a French citizen, entitling the winner to study for a period in Rome.The Grand Prix de Rome was awarded annually between 1663 and 1968, in art, sculpture, and later also in architecture, engraving, and music.

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the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > token of victory or supreme excellence > [noun] > award for merit > awards in science and the arts generally

Grand Prix1828

Nobel Prize1899

Pulitzer1911

Nobel1951

1828 J. Woods Lett. of Architect from France, Italy & Greece I. vii. 105 His being permitted to be a candidate for the grand prix, and for the pension for travelling in Italy, depends on the number of monthly prizes he may obtain.

1845 Critic 10 May 40/1 The Grand Prix de Rome carries with it, for the time, unbounded public estimation.

1889 F. F. Buffen Mus. Celebr. 53 In 1839 [Gounod] took the ‘Grand Prix’ with his composition of ‘Fernand’.

1922 Encycl. Brit. XXX. 186/1 The institution of the Grand Prix de Rome—the blue ribbon of the architectural student.

1977 J. Draper in S. Kostof Architect 210 Culmination of the process for a select few was the annual Grand Prix de Rome competition, open only to French citizens.

2010 Daily Tel. (Sydney) (Nexis) 19 Oct. 45 The winner was unknown architect Charles Garnier, who in 1848 had won the Grand Prix de Rome.

a. In full Grand Prix de Paris. An international horse race for three-year-olds run annually in June at Longchamps since 1863.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > [noun] > specific races

St. Leger1778

the Oaks1779

Goodwood Cup1829

Leger1832

Cesarewitch1839

Cambridgeshire handicap1840

Grand Prix de Paris1862

Grand National1863

classic1899

national1909

1862 Bell's Life in London 8 June 5/6 The conditions of the great race at Paris have been decided as follows:—The Grand Prix de Paris, a handsome piece of plate, given by the Emperor, added to 1000,000f (£4,000), half of which is given by the city of Paris.

1863 Times 3 June 9/4 The Grand Prix de Paris was looked forward to by the partisans of Lord Clifden, Saccharometer, and the Ranger.

1899 R. Whiteing No. 5 John St. xiv. 148 Sinclair is trying to form a party..to run over to the Grand Prix... ‘What about Ascot?’ cries a protesting voice.

1923 W. J. Locke Moordius & Co. viii. 99 Already, after the Grand Prix, the ultra fashionables were leaving Paris.

1992 Sporting Life 9 Oct. 5/4 I purchased this year's Group One Grand Prix de Paris scorer Homme De Loi for the same amount.

b. More fully Grand Prix race. Any of a series of motor-car races forming the World Championships, held in various countries under international rules.The first Grand Prix motor-car race was held in France in 1906.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > racing with vehicles > motor racing > [noun] > type of racing or race

autotest1901

Grand Prix1905

GP1908

grande épreuve1946

drag race1954

autocross1956

mud run1959

1905 Times 6 Jan. 13/1 The proposal is to carry on..a Grand Prix de l'Automobile Club de France, admitting an unlimited number of cars without eliminating trials.

1908 Westm. Gaz. 2 Apr. 4/3 The drivers have now definitely been selected for the team of three Austin cars entered for competition in the Grand Prix race.

1931 Times 5 June 4/6 To-day's practice for the Irish Grand Prix Race for motor-cars.

1939 Motor Sport June 181/1 Last year..Indianapolis was run under the Grand Prix formula laid down by the A.I.A.C.R.

1958 Times 4 Aug. 8/5 In 1956..he won two of the grandes épreuves—the French and Belgian Grands Prix.

1966 Times 14 Feb. 6/3 Grand prix racing under the new 3-litre Formula 1 gets into its stride this year.

1987 Motor Sport June 563/2 The fellow or girl who has, say, a Renault 5 in the car park, and sees a turbocharged Renault come home victorious in a Grand Prix.

2008 Evening Standard (Nexis) 22 May b60 Hamilton has revealed it is his dream to win the round-the-houses race, the most glamorous Grand Prix on the Formula One calendar.

3. The highest prize awarded at an exhibition or competition for a product or work in some particular line. Also figurative.Cf. grand prize n. at grand adj., n., and adv. Compounds 2.

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the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > token of victory or supreme excellence > [noun] > prize > for products or work exhibited

grand prize1755

prize1762

Grand Prix1866

1866 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 28 Sept. 700/2 Some new and startling prizes are offered..at the Paris Exhibition of next year. Besides the grand prix of four thousand pounds sterling, there are ten lesser prizes.

1882 Punch 17 June 285/2 Wallis, willing to bleed to any amount, won this Pictorial Grand Prix in London.

1900 Builder 79 258/2 London County Council School of Arts and Crafts..has gained the distinction of a Grand Prix at the Paris Exhibition.

1916 Oxf. Univ. Press Gen. Catal. The Twenty-three Grands Prix Awarded to the Oxford University Press At International Exhibitions 1889–1911.

1938 Encycl. Brit. Bk. of Year 282/2 Buna, or synthetic rubber,..was awarded the Grand Prix at the Paris Exhibition for 1937.

1939 Living Age 357 307/1 Entry for top honors in this bizarre competition for the Grand Prix in Intellectual Vacuity appeared recently on the front page of the Börsen Zeitung.

1999 Campaign 2 July 2/1 Britain left Cannes with both the film and print Grand Prix and more media lions than any other country.

2006 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 15 Mar. (Food section) c1 Finalists to qualify for the Canadian Cheese Grand Prix.

4. Any of various important competitive events in sports other than horse or motor racing. Also figurative.

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society > leisure > sport > match or competition > [noun] > types of

all comersc1450

after-gamea1500

fore-game1594

revenge1616

plate1639

set-to1743

return match1753

bye1754

scrub-race1791

anybody's game (also race, match)1826

return1834

barney1843

bonspiel1858

handicap1861

pennant1865

home-and-home1868

benefit match1871

run-off1873

international1877

American tournament1878

Grand Prix1879

single1884

friendly1885

all-comers1889

pair1890

championship1893

round robin1894

replay1895

Olympiad1896

junior varsity1902

lightning tournament1903

rematch1903

road trip1903

pickup1905

freestyle1906

marathon1908

test1908

Derby1909

scrimmage1910

eliminator1911

twosome1911

triala1914

quadrangular1916

slug-fest1916

varsity match1921

needle contest1922

curtain jerker1923

needle match1923

open1926

needle fight1927

knock-out1928

shirt1930

masters1933

pro-amateur1934

tune-up1934

World Cup1934

pro-am1937

state1941

sizzler1942

runathon1943

mismatch1954

run-out1955

match-up1959

squeaker1961

triple-header1961

Super Bowl1967

invitational1968

needle game1970

major1976

slobberknocker1986

1879 Sporting Times 23 Aug. 3 The shooting was exceptionally good, the twenty competitors in the first round of the Grand Prix grassing seventy-six birds out of a hundred.

1899 Denver Evening Post 10 July 3/4 George A. Banker, defeated in the trial of the [cycling] Grand Prix.

1906 Baily's Mag. of Sports & Pastimes Mar. 250/1 The man who seemed to have the only chance of winning for England at the end of the seventh round of the Grand Prix was a clay-bird shooter of pronounced success.

1940 Rudder Apr. 80/2 The fifth annual Grand Prix regatta, which got things off auspiciously at Long Beach on January 29.

1955 Amer. Motorcyclist May 12/1 The highlight of this tour will be a trip to the Isle of Man to attend the world famous Manx Grand Prix Motorcycle races which will be run on September 6 and 8.

1961 Times 25 Feb. 10/3 Miss T. Heald (G.B.) finished 16th in the women's special slalom at the Chamonix skiing Grand Prix meeting.

1986 V. Hearne Adam's Task vi. 155 In Grand Prix jumping, the judge's decision rests solely on whether or not the lumber..has been knocked to the ground after you and your horse complete your ride.

1987 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 9 June (Sport section) 42 Soviet Natalia Lisovskaya enlivened an otherwise dull athletics Grand Prix meeting in Moscow yesterday by breaking her own world shot put record twice.

2007 Times of India 2 June (Capital ed.) 32/3 The seventeen-year-old burst onto the international scene last year by becoming the first women shuttler of the country to win a [badminton] Grand Prix event.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	grand prix
释义	Grand Prixn. Brit. /ˌɡrɒ̃ ˈpriː/, U.S. /ˌɡrɑ̃ ˈpri/, /ˌɡræn(d) ˈpri/ Inflections: Plural Grands Prix, unchanged. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French Grand Prix. Etymology: < French Grand Prix, literally ‘great or chief prize’ (early 19th cent. in Grand Prix de Rome , as name for the artistic prize awarded since the 17th cent.; 2nd half of 19th cent. in Grand Prix de Paris ; 1905 in Grand Prix de l'Automobile Club de France ) < grand grand adj. + prix price n. 1. In full Grand Prix de Rome. The main prize in certain categories of artistic and creative endeavour awarded annually by the French government to a French citizen, entitling the winner to study for a period in Rome.The Grand Prix de Rome was awarded annually between 1663 and 1968, in art, sculpture, and later also in architecture, engraving, and music. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > token of victory or supreme excellence > [noun] > award for merit > awards in science and the arts generally Grand Prix1828 Nobel Prize1899 Pulitzer1911 Nobel1951 1828 J. Woods Lett. of Architect from France, Italy & Greece I. vii. 105 His being permitted to be a candidate for the grand prix, and for the pension for travelling in Italy, depends on the number of monthly prizes he may obtain. 1845 Critic 10 May 40/1 The Grand Prix de Rome carries with it, for the time, unbounded public estimation. 1889 F. F. Buffen Mus. Celebr. 53 In 1839 [Gounod] took the ‘Grand Prix’ with his composition of ‘Fernand’. 1922 Encycl. Brit. XXX. 186/1 The institution of the Grand Prix de Rome—the blue ribbon of the architectural student. 1977 J. Draper in S. Kostof Architect 210 Culmination of the process for a select few was the annual Grand Prix de Rome competition, open only to French citizens. 2010 Daily Tel. (Sydney) (Nexis) 19 Oct. 45 The winner was unknown architect Charles Garnier, who in 1848 had won the Grand Prix de Rome. 2. a. In full Grand Prix de Paris. An international horse race for three-year-olds run annually in June at Longchamps since 1863. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > [noun] > specific races St. Leger1778 the Oaks1779 Goodwood Cup1829 Leger1832 Cesarewitch1839 Cambridgeshire handicap1840 Grand Prix de Paris1862 Grand National1863 classic1899 national1909 1862 Bell's Life in London 8 June 5/6 The conditions of the great race at Paris have been decided as follows:—The Grand Prix de Paris, a handsome piece of plate, given by the Emperor, added to 1000,000f (£4,000), half of which is given by the city of Paris. 1863 Times 3 June 9/4 The Grand Prix de Paris was looked forward to by the partisans of Lord Clifden, Saccharometer, and the Ranger. 1899 R. Whiteing No. 5 John St. xiv. 148 Sinclair is trying to form a party..to run over to the Grand Prix... ‘What about Ascot?’ cries a protesting voice. 1923 W. J. Locke Moordius & Co. viii. 99 Already, after the Grand Prix, the ultra fashionables were leaving Paris. 1992 Sporting Life 9 Oct. 5/4 I purchased this year's Group One Grand Prix de Paris scorer Homme De Loi for the same amount. b. More fully Grand Prix race. Any of a series of motor-car races forming the World Championships, held in various countries under international rules.The first Grand Prix motor-car race was held in France in 1906. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > racing with vehicles > motor racing > [noun] > type of racing or race autotest1901 Grand Prix1905 GP1908 grande épreuve1946 drag race1954 autocross1956 mud run1959 1905 Times 6 Jan. 13/1 The proposal is to carry on..a Grand Prix de l'Automobile Club de France, admitting an unlimited number of cars without eliminating trials. 1908 Westm. Gaz. 2 Apr. 4/3 The drivers have now definitely been selected for the team of three Austin cars entered for competition in the Grand Prix race. 1931 Times 5 June 4/6 To-day's practice for the Irish Grand Prix Race for motor-cars. 1939 Motor Sport June 181/1 Last year..Indianapolis was run under the Grand Prix formula laid down by the A.I.A.C.R. 1958 Times 4 Aug. 8/5 In 1956..he won two of the grandes épreuves—the French and Belgian Grands Prix. 1966 Times 14 Feb. 6/3 Grand prix racing under the new 3-litre Formula 1 gets into its stride this year. 1987 Motor Sport June 563/2 The fellow or girl who has, say, a Renault 5 in the car park, and sees a turbocharged Renault come home victorious in a Grand Prix. 2008 Evening Standard (Nexis) 22 May b60 Hamilton has revealed it is his dream to win the round-the-houses race, the most glamorous Grand Prix on the Formula One calendar. 3. The highest prize awarded at an exhibition or competition for a product or work in some particular line. Also figurative.Cf. grand prize n. at grand adj., n., and adv. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > token of victory or supreme excellence > [noun] > prize > for products or work exhibited grand prize1755 prize1762 Grand Prix1866 1866 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 28 Sept. 700/2 Some new and startling prizes are offered..at the Paris Exhibition of next year. Besides the grand prix of four thousand pounds sterling, there are ten lesser prizes. 1882 Punch 17 June 285/2 Wallis, willing to bleed to any amount, won this Pictorial Grand Prix in London. 1900 Builder 79 258/2 London County Council School of Arts and Crafts..has gained the distinction of a Grand Prix at the Paris Exhibition. 1916 Oxf. Univ. Press Gen. Catal. The Twenty-three Grands Prix Awarded to the Oxford University Press At International Exhibitions 1889–1911. 1938 Encycl. Brit. Bk. of Year 282/2 Buna, or synthetic rubber,..was awarded the Grand Prix at the Paris Exhibition for 1937. 1939 Living Age 357 307/1 Entry for top honors in this bizarre competition for the Grand Prix in Intellectual Vacuity appeared recently on the front page of the Börsen Zeitung. 1999 Campaign 2 July 2/1 Britain left Cannes with both the film and print Grand Prix and more media lions than any other country. 2006 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 15 Mar. (Food section) c1 Finalists to qualify for the Canadian Cheese Grand Prix. 4. Any of various important competitive events in sports other than horse or motor racing. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > match or competition > [noun] > types of all comersc1450 after-gamea1500 fore-game1594 revenge1616 plate1639 set-to1743 return match1753 bye1754 scrub-race1791 anybody's game (also race, match)1826 return1834 barney1843 bonspiel1858 handicap1861 pennant1865 home-and-home1868 benefit match1871 run-off1873 international1877 American tournament1878 Grand Prix1879 single1884 friendly1885 all-comers1889 pair1890 championship1893 round robin1894 replay1895 Olympiad1896 junior varsity1902 lightning tournament1903 rematch1903 road trip1903 pickup1905 freestyle1906 marathon1908 test1908 Derby1909 scrimmage1910 eliminator1911 twosome1911 triala1914 quadrangular1916 slug-fest1916 varsity match1921 needle contest1922 curtain jerker1923 needle match1923 open1926 needle fight1927 knock-out1928 shirt1930 masters1933 pro-amateur1934 tune-up1934 World Cup1934 pro-am1937 state1941 sizzler1942 runathon1943 mismatch1954 run-out1955 match-up1959 squeaker1961 triple-header1961 Super Bowl1967 invitational1968 needle game1970 major1976 slobberknocker1986 1879 Sporting Times 23 Aug. 3 The shooting was exceptionally good, the twenty competitors in the first round of the Grand Prix grassing seventy-six birds out of a hundred. 1899 Denver Evening Post 10 July 3/4 George A. Banker, defeated in the trial of the [cycling] Grand Prix. 1906 Baily's Mag. of Sports & Pastimes Mar. 250/1 The man who seemed to have the only chance of winning for England at the end of the seventh round of the Grand Prix was a clay-bird shooter of pronounced success. 1940 Rudder Apr. 80/2 The fifth annual Grand Prix regatta, which got things off auspiciously at Long Beach on January 29. 1955 Amer. Motorcyclist May 12/1 The highlight of this tour will be a trip to the Isle of Man to attend the world famous Manx Grand Prix Motorcycle races which will be run on September 6 and 8. 1961 Times 25 Feb. 10/3 Miss T. Heald (G.B.) finished 16th in the women's special slalom at the Chamonix skiing Grand Prix meeting. 1986 V. Hearne Adam's Task vi. 155 In Grand Prix jumping, the judge's decision rests solely on whether or not the lumber..has been knocked to the ground after you and your horse complete your ride. 1987 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 9 June (Sport section) 42 Soviet Natalia Lisovskaya enlivened an otherwise dull athletics Grand Prix meeting in Moscow yesterday by breaking her own world shot put record twice. 2007 Times of India 2 June (Capital ed.) 32/3 The seventeen-year-old burst onto the international scene last year by becoming the first women shuttler of the country to win a [badminton] Grand Prix event. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1828
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