grange

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a farm or farmhouse with its outbuildings, especially one formerly belonging to a monastery or estate

   They restored the abandoned grange and planted the surrounding fields.

2. 2
   noun

   archaic: a granary or barn

   The abbey stored its winter grain in a stone grange.

3. 3
   noun

   usually capitalized in the United States: a local lodge of the Patrons of Husbandry, or the organization itself

   Local farmers met at the Grange to discuss crop prices.

From Middle English graunge, borrowed from Old French grange, 'granary, barn, or small farm,' from Medieval Latin granica and Latin granum, 'grain.' Monastic granaries developed into outlying farms, producing the farmhouse sense. The US agricultural organization adopted Grange as a lodge name in the nineteenth century.

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