grail

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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?
  2. A book of offices in the Roman Catholic Church; a gradual.
    — antiphonals, missals, grails, processionals, etc.
  3. Small particles of earth; gravel. poetic,uncountable
    — Hereof this gentle knight vnweeting was, / And lying downe vpon the sandie graile, / Drunke of the streame, as cleare as cristall glas [...].
  4. One of the small feathers of a hawk.
  5. Something eagerly sought or quested for.
    — Becoming an astronaut was his grail.

词形变化

grails plural grails plural grails plural

词汇关系

衍生词
engrail
相关词
Sangrail

词源

词源 1
From Middle English graal, greal, from Old French graal, greal (“cup”), from Medieval Latin gradalis, possibly corrupted over time from Latin crater (“bowl”).
词源 2
From Middle English grayel, from Old French grael, ultimately from Latin graduale. Doublet of gradual.
词源 3
Uncertain; perhaps a reduced form of gravel.
词源 4
Compare Old French graite slender.
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