Grant
Common American surname
Grant is a surname and masculine given name.
Ulysses S.
Grant commanded Union forces in the American Civil War and served as the eighteenth U.S. president.
Cary Grant was a Hollywood leading man.
The name suggests strength and directness. (Lowercase grant means to give or allow.)
Ulysses
Greek hero, Latinized
forename · masculine · president · general · actor · Scottish
- U.S. GeneralsEisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Lee, Sherman
- 19th Century LeadersLincoln, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Jackson, Napoleon III, Victoria
- Civil War FiguresRobert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln, William Sherman
- military leadersGeorge Washington, Napoleon, generals, general, commander
- Petersburg CampaignPetersburg, trenches, trench warfare, siege warfare, siege lines
- Shawano CountyBowler, Cecil, Marion, Pulaski, Wittenberg
Grantloan
Borrowed money repaid later
debt · mortgage · credit · borrowing · tuition bill
GrantLee
Protected from wind
Robert E. Lee · Jefferson Davis · Stonewall Jackson · Confederate generals · Beauregard
- taken for grantedAssumed present, never thanked
- funding grantsMoney awarded for purposes
- government grantPublic money awarded freely
- Cary Grant
- permission grantedOfficial approval to proceed
- research grantFunds awarded for investigation