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Definition of Grandstand
1. Verb. Perform ostentatiously in order to impress the audience and with an eye to the applause. "She never misses a chance to grandstand"
2. Noun. The audience at a stadium or racetrack.
3. Noun. A stand at a racecourse or stadium consisting of tiers with rows of individual seats that are under a protective roof.
Definition of Grandstand
1. Noun. The seating area at a stadium or arena; the bleachers. ¹
2. Noun. The audience at a public event. ¹
3. Verb. (intransitive) To behave dramatically or showily to impress an audience or observers; to pander to a crowd. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Grandstand
1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grandstand
Literary usage of Grandstand
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1904)
"... a front seat in the grandstand at the Polo Grounds on a sunny afternoon, with
the New York team six runs ahead. ..."
2. Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year by Ernest Clark Hartwell (1921)
"For we were in the pilot's seat of America's largest bombing plane, grandstand
seats is with nothing between us and the show but air, of which there was a ..."
3. Annual Report of the Minnesota State Agricultural Society by Minnesota State Agricultural Society (1910)
"... was purchased this year by the Society, and used for overflow exhibits from
the Exposition Room in the grandstand. The exhibition space sold for $1030. ..."
4. The Prince of India by Robert D. Manning (1998)
"The gate of the tunnel under the grandstand opens quickly, and shut just as
quickly...the WOMAN, PRINCESS IRENE, crosses the sand toward the MONK, ..."
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