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What (who) is grail - definition

CUP, DISH OR STONE WITH MIRACULOUS POWERS, IMPORTANT MOTIF IN ARTHURIAN LITERATURE
The Quest of the Holy Grail; Sangreal; Holy Graal; Quest for the Holy Grail; Holy grail; The Holy Grail; Grail legend; Grail Quest; Grail myth; Grail; Queste du Graal; Sangraal; Holy Grail Quest; Sangrael; The Holy Glair; San Greal; Sangrail; Grail mythos; Grail Myth; The Grail
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  • ''Die Gralsburg'' (''The Grail Castle'') by [[Hans Thoma]] (1899)
  • Grail diary of [[Henry Jones, Sr.]] from the 1989 film ''[[Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade]]'' at the [[Hollywood Museum]]
  • The Grail in 1933 German stamp
  • The Holy Grail depicted on a stained glass window at [[Quimper Cathedral]]

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  • Fourth grade students at [[Emily Dickinson Elementary School]] in [[Bozeman, Montana]] who suggested names ''Ebb'' and ''Flow''.<ref name=ebbflow/>
  • GRAIL-transit-Earth-Moon
  • MoonKAM shot
AMERICAN LUNAR SCIENCE MISSION IN NASA'S DISCOVERY PROGRAM
Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory; MoonKam; Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory; 2011-046; GRAIL B; GRAIL A; MoonKAM; GRAIL mission; Gravity Recovery and Internal Laboratory; Ebb (spacecraft); Flow (spacecraft); Discovery 11; Discovery mission 11
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The Grail or the Holy Grail is the cup that was used by Jesus Christ at the Last Supper. In medieval times, many people tried to find the Grail without success.
N-PROPER
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If you describe something as a grail or a holy grail, you mean that someone is trying very hard to obtain or achieve it.
The discovery is being hailed as The Holy Grail of astronomy.
N-SING: oft the N of n
Grail         
  • Fourth grade students at [[Emily Dickinson Elementary School]] in [[Bozeman, Montana]] who suggested names ''Ebb'' and ''Flow''.<ref name=ebbflow/>
  • GRAIL-transit-Earth-Moon
  • MoonKAM shot
AMERICAN LUNAR SCIENCE MISSION IN NASA'S DISCOVERY PROGRAM
Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory; MoonKam; Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory; 2011-046; GRAIL B; GRAIL A; MoonKAM; GRAIL mission; Gravity Recovery and Internal Laboratory; Ebb (spacecraft); Flow (spacecraft); Discovery 11; Discovery mission 11
·noun Small particles of earth; gravel.
II. Grail ·noun One of the small feathers of a hawk.
III. Grail ·noun A book of offices in the Roman Catholic Church; a gradual.
IV. Grail ·noun A broad, open dish; a chalice;
- only used of the Holy Grail.
GRAIL         
  • Fourth grade students at [[Emily Dickinson Elementary School]] in [[Bozeman, Montana]] who suggested names ''Ebb'' and ''Flow''.<ref name=ebbflow/>
  • GRAIL-transit-Earth-Moon
  • MoonKAM shot
AMERICAN LUNAR SCIENCE MISSION IN NASA'S DISCOVERY PROGRAM
Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory; MoonKam; Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory; 2011-046; GRAIL B; GRAIL A; MoonKAM; GRAIL mission; Gravity Recovery and Internal Laboratory; Ebb (spacecraft); Flow (spacecraft); Discovery 11; Discovery mission 11
Graphical Input Language. A flow chart language entered on a graphics tablet. The graphical follow-on to JOSS. ["The GRAIL Language and Operations", T.O. Ellis et al, RM-6001-ARPA, RAND, Sept 1969]. (1995-01-23)

Wikipedia

Holy Grail

The Holy Grail (French: Saint Graal, Breton: Graal Santel, Welsh: Greal Sanctaidd, Cornish: Gral) is a treasure that serves as an important motif in Arthurian literature. Various traditions describe the Holy Grail as a cup, dish, or stone with miraculous healing powers, sometimes providing eternal youth or sustenance in infinite abundance, often guarded in the custody of the Fisher King and located in the hidden Grail castle. By analogy, any elusive object or goal of great significance may be perceived as a "holy grail" by those seeking such.

A "grail" (Old French: graal or greal), wondrous but not unequivocally holy, first appears in Perceval, the Story of the Grail, an unfinished chivalric romance written by Chrétien de Troyes around 1190. Chrétien's story inspired many continuations, translators and interpreters in the later-12th and early-13th centuries, including Wolfram von Eschenbach, who perceived the Grail as a stone. The Christian, Celtic or possibly other origins of the Arthurian grail trope are uncertain and have been debated amongst literary scholars and historians.

In the late 12th century, Robert de Boron in Joseph d'Arimathie portrayed the Grail as Jesus's vessel from the Last Supper, which Joseph of Arimathea used to catch Christ's blood at the crucifixion. Thereafter, the Holy Grail became interwoven with the legend of the Holy Chalice, the Last Supper cup, an idea continued in works such as the Lancelot-Grail cycle and consequently the 15th-century Le Morte d'Arthur. In this form, it is now a popular theme in modern culture and has become the subject of pseudohistorical writings and of conspiracy theories.

Examples of use of grail
1. Holy grail The holy grail would be the ability to achieve all of our scientific purposes without using any animals at all.
2. The Higgs boson is the Holy Grail of particle physics.
3. "It‘s the holy grail of deep sea animals," he said.
4. They also associate Magdalene with the Holy Grail.
5. "Choice" is the Holy Grail of the global consumer economy.