granary
noun
a storehouse or repository for grain, especially after it has been threshed or husked.
granary
American
[grey-nuh-ree, gran-uh-]
/ ˈgreɪ nə ri, ˈgræn ə- /
noun
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granaries
plural
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a storehouse or repository for grain, especially after it has been threshed or husked.
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a region that produces great quantities of grain.
granary
1
British
/ ˈɡrænərɪ, ˈɡreɪnərɪ /
noun
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a building or store room for storing threshed grain, farm feed, etc
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a region that produces a large amount of grain
Granary
2
British
/ ˈɡrænərɪ /
adjective
Other Word Forms
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Etymology
Origin of granary
1560–70; < Latin grānārium, equivalent to grān ( um ) grain + -ārium -ary
Explanation
If you're wondering where to store your grain, the simple answer is — in a granary. Not much more to say, really. A granary is where grain is stored. One clear way to remember the meaning of granary is that it sounds like what it is. If I were to ask you to invent a word that means "the place where grain is stored" you'd very likely come up with granary — though admittedly, the spelling is a little different. In the same way that wine comes from a winery, you'll find granaries the world over filled with, well, grain.
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Example Sentences
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Faria turned toward downtown, mentioning that business owners are trying to hang on but that the old granary by the railroad tracks closed not long ago.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2024
On Saturday, water reached warning levels and continued to rise on the Muling river in northeast China's Heilongjiang province, known as the nation's "great northern granary", the provincial hydrology office said.
From Reuters ● Aug. 5, 2023
The NHS Better Health website recommends keeping a small selection of different types of bread in the freezer like bagels, pittas and wraps, granary or multigrain.
From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2023
All she knows is that her stately home in Chellanam, which withstood the test of time for nearly a century, is corroding and her granary is empty.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 25, 2023
Now there is nothing left for the thatching, unless we use a rupee or two from the ten that remain in the granary.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
Moored up in Leeds city centre's Granary Wharf, with his son on board for a few weeks, Ken says he still feels a sense of community despite not having permanent neighbours.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
The evo Hotel sits in the Granary District just south of downtown.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 10, 2024
The big lure for Felix is “the scones at the Green Granary bakery stand - and seeing the dogs.”
From Washington Times ● Jun. 15, 2023
A local friend and I took a 35-minute drive, past horse farm after horse farm, to Granary Road.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2022
He died in 1803, and his dust lies to-day in the old Granary Burying Ground, close by the common grave of the four victims of the Boston Massacre.
From The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 6 by Various
More broadly, the world is lucky that war broke out after several bountiful harvests filled granaries, says Joseph Glauber, research fellow emeritus at the International Food Policy Research Institute.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
Many of the region’s other mountain villages were abandoned, their granaries turned into tourist attractions or, in at least one case, a “Star Wars” filming location.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2023
European countries will consider providing temporary granaries to Ukraine, which faces a shortage of silos for new grain crop, Ukrainian agriculture ministry said on Tuesday.
From Reuters ● Jun. 14, 2022
The material keeps steel plants running in Ohio and Pennsylvania and feeds granaries in Michigan and across the Midwest.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 14, 2015
They rode past the blackened bones of houses and barns without number, chimneys sticking up like grave markers, the husked stone walls of ravaged mills and granaries.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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