Corn-factor
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A trader in grains. British
"For years and years it had gone off in splendid style as long as any one could remember; ever since Kate and Julia, after the death of their brother Pat, had left the house in Stoney Batter and taken Mary Jane, their only niece, to live with them in the dark gaunt house on Usher's Island, the upper part of which they had rented from Mr Fulham, the corn-factor on the ground floor."
Synonyms
All synonymsExample
More examples"For years and years it had gone off in splendid style as long as any one could remember; ever since Kate and Julia, after the death of their brother Pat, had left the house in Stoney Batter and taken Mary Jane, their only niece, to live with them in the dark gaunt house on Usher's Island, the upper part of which they had rented from Mr Fulham, the corn-factor on the ground floor."
Etymology
From corn + factor.
More for "corn-factor"
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.