grange

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noun
  1. Chiefly British. a country house or large farmhouse with its various farm buildings (usually in house names): Bulkeley Grange;the grange of a gentleman-farmer.

  2. (in historical use) an isolated farm, with its farmhouse and nearby buildings, belonging to monks or nuns or to a feudal lord: the nunnery's grange at Tisbury.

  1. the Grange, See under Granger Movement.

  2. Archaic. a barn or granary.

Origin of grange

1
1150–1200; Middle English gra(u)nge “barn,” from Anglo-French, from Vulgar Latin grānica (unattested), equivalent to Latin grān(i)um grain + -ica, feminine of -icus -ic

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Grange
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noun
  1. Harold "Red"; "the Galloping Ghost", 1903–1991, U.S. football player.

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grange

/ (ɡreɪndʒ) /


noun
  1. mainly British a farm, esp a farmhouse or country house with its various outbuildings

  2. history an outlying farmhouse in which a religious establishment or feudal lord stored crops and tithes in kind

  1. archaic a granary or barn

Origin of grange

1
C13: from Anglo-French graunge, from Medieval Latin grānica, from Latin grānum grain

British Dictionary definitions for Grange (2 of 2)

Grange

/ (ɡreɪndʒ) /


noun(in the US)
  1. the Grange an association of farmers that strongly influenced state legislatures in the late 19th century

  2. a lodge of this association

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