What does "garner" mean?
A granary; a store of grain.
Garner
/ˈɡɑː.nə/ name, noun, verb
name, noun, verb ·Moderate ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A granary; a store of grain.
- Grammar: garner is listed as name, noun, verb.
- Nearest alternatives: collect, earn, gather, win.
- Useful contrasts: discard, forfeit, ignore.
- Usage evidence: French finance minister Christine Lagarde headed to Brazil as part of a tour to garner support for her candidacy.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A granary; a store of grain.
"That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets."
- 2 a storehouse for threshed grain or animal feed wordnet
- 3 An accumulation, supply, store, or hoard of something.
"Master, I bring from many wanderings, The gathered garner of my years to thee; One precious fruit of many rain-blown springs And sun-shod summers, ripened over-sea."
Verb
- 1 To reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary. transitive
"The rustic does not know what would happen to him if he garnered his corn on Sunday, nor does the diner-out in polite society know what would happen if he spooned up his food with his knife - but they both are stricken with a sort of paralysis at the very suggestion of infringing these taboos."
- 2 assemble or get together wordnet
- 3 To gather, amass, hoard, as if harvesting grain. transitive
"[…] I walked enormous distances[…] garnering thoughts even from the heather."
- 4 store grain wordnet
- 5 To earn; to get; to accumulate or acquire by some effort or due to some fact figuratively, often, transitive
"to garner support"
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- 6 acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions wordnet
- 7 To gather or become gathered; to accumulate or become accumulated; to become stored. rare, transitive
"She soothed herself with the belief that the workings of her soul were still known to him,—that her regret and her despondency were but the needful preparation for that other sphere, where now her only remaining hope was garnered."
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname.
- 2 A place in the United States:; A town in White County, Arkansas.
- 3 A place in the United States:; A city, the county seat of Hancock County, Iowa.
- 4 A place in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Linn County, Missouri.
- 5 A place in the United States:; A town in Wake County, North Carolina.
Example
"French finance minister Christine Lagarde headed to Brazil as part of a tour to garner support for her candidacy."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "garner"?
Common synonyms include: collect, earn, gather, win, accumulate, accumulate.
How do you use "garner" in a sentence?
French finance minister Christine Lagarde headed to Brazil as part of a tour to garner support for her candidacy.
How do you pronounce "garner"?
Pronounced /ˈɡɑː.nə/.
Etymology
From Middle English gerner, from Old French gernier, guernier, variant of grenier, from Latin grānārium (“granary”). Doublet of granary.