Granary

//ˈɡɹan(ə)ɹi// noun

noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

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

    "For a long time the dormouse and polecat had seemed to him overfeeble enemies for his restless valour, even as the granary floor seemed to afford too narrow a field. Every day he read the papers of the previous day in the servants' hall of the houses he visited, and it appeared to him that this war in America, which was hailed as the awakening of the spirit of liberty and justice in the New World, ought to produce a revolution in France."

  2. 2
    a storehouse for threshed grain or animal feed wordnet
  3. 3
    A fertile, grain-growing region. figuratively

Synonyms

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breadbasketbreadbasketcribfoodshedgarnerhayloft

Example

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"The village head decided to build a large granary to protect the grain from the weevils."

Etymology

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

Related phrases

granary breadgranary loafgranary treegranary weevilrat in a granarygrain elevator

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