grand prize

Contest's ultimate reward

The grand prize is the top award in a competition, lottery, or sweepstakes—the biggest, most valuable prize offered.

Game shows build toward the grand prize.

Sweepstakes promise a grand prize of a million dollars.

The term emphasizes that lesser prizes exist but this one surpasses them all: She won the grand prize: a new car and a trip to Hawaii.

Opposites
prize hierarchy

grand prizeconsolation prize

Award for losing participants

booby prize · participation trophy · runner-up prize · second prize · honorable mention

outcome quality

grand prizenothing

Not any thing

disqualification · loss · losing · elimination · empty hands

Family

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Familiarity
Top 50,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G