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granary

noun
/ˈɡɹan(ə)ɹi/UK/ˈɡɹænəɹi/US

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin grānārium (16th century). Equivalent to grain + -ary. Doublet of garner.

  1. borrowed from grānārium

Definitions

  1. A storage facility for grain or sometimes animal feed.

    • [I]solate the body of the building from the ground […] embodied in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century granaries, built on staddle stones, which still survive in many English farmyards.

  2. A fertile, grain-growing region.

The neighborhood

Derived

granary bread, granary loaf, granary tree, granary weevil, rat in a granary

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA