/ɡɹeɪl/
OriginFrom Middle English graal, greal, from Old French graal, greal (“cup”), from Medieval Latin gradalis, possibly corrupted over time from Latin crater (“bowl”).
- The Holy Grail.
“The quest for the Grail is not archeology. It's a race against evil. If it is captured by the Nazis, the armies of darkness will march all over the face of the earth. Do you understand me?”
- Something eagerly sought or quested for.
“Becoming an astronaut was his grail.”
“How many of them had found the item they dreamt of, their personal grails?”
- A book of offices in the Roman Catholic Church; a gradual.
“antiphonals, missals, grails, processionals, etc.”
- poetic, uncountableSmall particles of earth; gravel.
“Hereof this gentle knight vnweeting was, / And lying downe vpon the sandie graile, / Drunke of the streame, as cleare as cristall glas [...].”
- One of the small feathers of a hawk.
- abbreviation, alt-of, initialismInitialism of Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory.
Formsgrails(plural)