garner
/ˈɡɑːɹ.nɚ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.55 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An accumulation, supply, store, or hoard of something.
verb
To earn; to get; to accumulate or acquire (attitudes, reputations, or actions from others) by some effort or due to some fact
Transitive verb
verb
To gather or become gathered; to accumulate or become accumulated; to become stored.
Transitive verb
name
A surname.
name
A place in the United States:
Example Sentences
- "That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets."
- "Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire."
- "Master, I bring from many wanderings, The gathered garner of my years to thee; One precious fruit of many rain-blown springs And sun-shod summers, ripened over-sea."
- "The rustic does not know what would happen to him if he garnered his corn on Sunday, nor does the diner-out in polite society know what would happen if he spooned up his food with his knife - but they both are stricken with a sort of paralysis at the very suggestion of infringing these taboos."
- "[…] I walked enormous distances[…] garnering thoughts even from the heather."
- "He garnered the fruit of his studies in seven volumes."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɡɑːɹ.nɚ/
- British English: /ˈɡɑː.nə/