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granary

noun

gra·​na·​ry ˈgrā-nə-rē How to pronounce granary (audio) ˈgra- How to pronounce granary (audio)
plural granaries
1
a
: a storehouse for threshed grain
b
: a region producing grain in abundance
2
: a chief source or storehouse

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web What sort of public action might effectively mimic a reserve or a granary to solve this conundrum? Robert Hockett, Forbes, 5 June 2022 In a frenzy of competitive energy, the city’s guilds lavished attention on its unfinished cathedral, its neighboring baptistery and the former granary-turned-church of Orsanmichele. Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 13 May 2022 For some Argentine agricultural experts, the rise in global food insecurity and tightening food supplies risks turning the country away from its roots as a great granary to the world. Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 May 2022 Near their pitch is an ancient granary that climbers can’t visit. The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Dec. 2021 Residents and property owners of Ogden's west 2nd Street petitioned the city's Landmarks Commission to place an 1870 granary on the historic register. Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Oct. 2021 The Latter-day Saint congregation met first in a schoolhouse, Amott said, and then on the upper floor of a granary before the church was built around 1900. Sara Tabin, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Feb. 2021 The festival took a few years off during World War II but returned to San Jose in 1946 for a Columbus Day Festival, to benefit the mission’s granary. Paula Allen, ExpressNews.com, 24 Oct. 2020 Masten stored these finds on the floor of his granary for public viewing. Hans-dieter Sues, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 May 2020 See More

Word History

Etymology

Latin granarium, from granum grain

First Known Use

1570, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Time Traveler
The first known use of granary was in 1570

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