granary

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a storehouse for threshed grain or animal feed

   The granary was full after the harvest.

2. 2
   noun

   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.

3. 3
   noun

   A fertile, grain-growing region.

   The granary was full after the harvest.

Simplified etymology

Granary, recorded from the late 16th century, comes from Latin granum, meaning “seed,” the same source as grain.

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

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