grange
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.
(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.
the Grange, See under Granger Movement.
Archaic. a barn or granary.
Origin of grange
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How to use grange in a sentence
That’s grange pricing, so maybe it will appeal to grange collectors who don’t want to wait two decades.
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How Nelson Mandela Called The Queen 'Elizabeth' And Commented On Her Weight | Tom Sykes | December 10, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThere are 35 British officers dedicated to the new investigation, which grew out of a review of the case called Operation grange.
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In May 2011, Scotland Yard launched a shadow investigation called Operation grange to reexamine the original police work.
Madeleine McCann Case: Police Hunt for Troupe of British Cleaners | Barbie Latza Nadeau | March 21, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTNothing is there except the rectory, the church just across the way, the grange, and half a dozen thatched cottages.
British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car | Thomas D. MurphyAnother week had passed when, riding home one evening, he stopped at the grange, and as it happened found Maud Barrington alone.
Winston of the Prairie | Harold BindlossIt was a minute or two later when Winston swung himself into the saddle at the door of the grange.
Winston of the Prairie | Harold BindlossI had to lay all the blame at the 'open door' of the 'Moated grange,' which I had been reading.
A Fortune Hunter; Or, The Old Stone Corral | John Dunloe CarteretThe first visit we paid the following morning was to Oxlip grange, to see Coralie.
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British Dictionary definitions for grange (1 of 2)
/ (ɡreɪndʒ) /
mainly British a farm, esp a farmhouse or country house with its various outbuildings
history an outlying farmhouse in which a religious establishment or feudal lord stored crops and tithes in kind
archaic a granary or barn
Origin of grange
1British Dictionary definitions for Grange (2 of 2)
/ (ɡreɪndʒ) /
the Grange an association of farmers that strongly influenced state legislatures in the late 19th century
a lodge of this association
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