Meanings (ES + gloss)
grandioso
Large and impressive, in size, scope or extent.
Independence does not need to be a grandiose process of disconnection and severing ties.
grandioso
Pompous or pretentious.
There is a station here, of course, opened as Didcot in June 1844 and renamed as the more grandiose-sounding Didcot Parkway in July 1985.
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