Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

granary

/ˈɡɹænəɹi/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 2.57 in modern English

Syllables: gran-a-ry
IPA: /ˈɡɹænəɹi/

11

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

3

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A storage facility for grain or sometimes animal feed.

noun

A fertile, grain-growing region.

Example Sentences

"For a long time the dormouse and polecat had seemed to him overfeeble enemies for his restless valour, even as the granary floor seemed to afford too narrow a field. Every day he read the papers of the previous day in the servants' hall of the houses he visited, and it appeared to him that this war in America, which was hailed as the awakening of the spirit of liberty and justice in the New World, ought to produce a revolution in France."
"[I]solate the body of the building from the ground […] embodied in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century granaries, built on staddle stones, which still survive in many English farmyards."

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin grānārium (16th century). Equivalent to grain + -ary. Doublet of garner.

Word Breakdown

Root: *ǵerh₂-

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈɡɹænəɹi/
British English: /ˈɡɹan(ə)ɹi/

Inflected Forms

granaries (plural) granarys (obsolete, plural)

Phrases

granary bread granary loaf granary tree granary weevil rat in a granary grain elevator staddle stones

Frequently Paired Words

grain elevator silo staddle stones

Synonyms

breadbasket garner

Questions

How do you pronounce granary?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈɡɹænəɹi/.
What does granary mean?: A storage facility for grain or sometimes animal feed.
Where does granary come from?: Borrowed from Latin grānārium (16th century). Equivalent to grain + -ary. Doublet of garner.

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