<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action: We watched her skate with effortless grace across the ice.</li><li>Synonyms: class, refinement, charm, attractiveness.</li><li>a pleasing or attractive quality or endowment: He lacked the manly graces.</li><li>favor or goodwill.</li><li>Synonyms: benevolence, benignity, love, kindliness, kindness.</li><li>a manifestation of favor, especially by a superior: It was only through the dean's grace that I wasn't expelled from school.</li><li>Synonyms: charity, forgiveness.</li><li>Antonyms: disfavor, enmity, animosity.</li><li>mercy; clemency; pardon: He was saved by an act of grace from the governor.</li><li>Synonyms: reprieve, leniency, lenity.</li><li>favor shown in granting a delay or temporary immunity.</li><li>an allowance of time after a debt or bill has become payable granted to the debtor before suit can be brought against them or a penalty applied: The life insurance premium is due today, but we have 31 days' grace before the policy lapses.</li><li>Theology: the freely given, unmerited favor and love of God.</li><li>the influence or spirit of God operating in humans to regenerate or strengthen them.</li><li>a virtue or excellence of divine origin: the Christian graces.</li><li>the condition of being in God's favor or one of the elect.</li><li>moral strength: the grace to perform a duty.</li><li>a short prayer before or after a meal, in which a blessing is asked and thanks are given: Grandfather will now say grace.</li><li>a formal title used in addressing or mentioning a duke, duchess, or archbishop, and formerly also a sovereign (usually preceded by your, his, etc.).</li><li>Graces, Classical Mythology: the goddesses of beauty, daughters of Zeus and Eurynome, worshiped in Greece as the Charities and in Rome as the Gratiae.</li><li>Music: grace note.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) to lend or add grace to; adorn: Many fine paintings graced the rooms of the house.</li><li>Synonyms: enhance, ornament, decorate, deck, beautify, embellish.</li><li>Antonyms: demean, desecrate, disfigure.</li><li>to favor or honor: to grace an occasion with one's presence.</li><li>Synonyms: exalt, elevate, glorify.</li><li>Antonyms: dishonor, disrespect.</li></ul>