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Granta

American  
[gran-tuh] / ˈgræn tə /

noun

  1. Cam.


Granta British  
/ ˈɡræntə, ˈɡrɑːntə /

noun

  1. the original name, still in use locally, for the River Cam

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“If the unconscious is structured like a language, the design of a therapist’s consulting room is also a language,” Deborah Levy writes in a recent Granta essay.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026

Adapted from Adrift in the South, by Xiao Hai, translated by Tony Hao, to be published by Granta on May 26, 2026.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026

She was named by Granta as one of Britain's best British novelists under 40 earlier this year.

From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2023

Prices for the Lada Granta, Russia's most widely sold car, start at around 680,000 roubles.

From Reuters ● Mar. 24, 2023

Yet can I fancy, wandering 'mid thy towers, Myself a nursling, Granta, of thy lap; My brow seems tightening with the Doctor's cap, And I walk gowned; feel unusual powers.

From The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Charles Lamb

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