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la grande Lexical Profile

• noun

1

American A city in northeastern Oregon, United States, serving as the county seat of Union County and situated within the Grande Ronde Valley.

Example

"We stopped for lunch in La Grande while driving through the scenic mountains of eastern Oregon."

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Word Origin & Etymology

Derived from French, meaning 'the great' or 'the large.' The city in Oregon was named by an early French settler, Charles Dause, who used the phrase to describe the visual expanse of the surrounding Grande Ronde Valley.

Usage Trend

Historical frequency of usage in published text.

180019102020
Data source: Google Books Ngram Viewer

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Wordmom. (2026). Definition of La grande. In Wordmom Dictionary. Retrieved Oct 14, 2026, from https://wordmom.com/dictionary/la grande
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