grange
pronunciation
How to pronounce grange in British English:
UK [greɪndʒ]
How to pronounce grange in American English:
US [ɡreɪndʒ]
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- Noun:
- an outlying farm
Word Origin
- grange
- grange: [13] Originally, a grange was ‘somewhere for storing grain’, a ‘barn’. The word comes via Old French grange from medieval Latin grānica, a noun use of an unrecorded adjective *grānicus ‘of grain’, which was derived from grānum ‘grain, seed’ (source of English grain). Of its present-day meanings, ‘farm-house’ developed in the 14th century, ‘country house’ in the 16th century.=> grain
- grange (n.)
- mid-13c. in surnames and place names; c. 1300 as "group of farms, small village," also "a granary, barn" (early 14c.), "outlying buildings of a monastic or other estate" (late 14c.), "small farm" (mid-15c.), and compare granger; from Anglo-French graunge, Old French grange "barn, granary; farmstead, farm house" (12c.), from Medieval Latin or Vulgar Latin granica "barn or shed for keeping grain," from Latin granum "grain," from PIE root *gre-no- "grain" (see corn (n.1)). Sense evolved to "outlying farm" (late 14c.), then "country house," especially of a gentleman farmer (1550s). Meaning "local lodge of the Patrons of Husbandry" (a U.S. farmers' cooperative and agricultural interest promotion organization) is from 1867.
Example
- 1. His plans are for linton and cathy to marry so that he would inherit thrushcross grange .
- 2. There was no formal speech , just the grange master 's yell that food was ready .
- 3. Except that in the tradition of medieval saints , it probably isn 't his body at all , according to research by bertrand de la grange , a french journalist .
- 4. In september , eight months after leaving , lockwood finds himself back in the area and decides to stay at thrushcross grange ( since his tenancy is still valid until october ) .
- 5. Lehman brothers faces the threat of legal action by municipal councils in australia over the sale of high-risk collateralised debt obligations by the wall street bank 's local subsidiary grange securities .