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granaries

granaries is the plural of granary.

Meaning of granary

Noun

granary (plural granaries or (obsolete) granarys)

  1. A storage facility for grain or sometimes animal feed.
    • 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...1837, George Sand, translated by Stanley Young, Mauprat, Cassandra Editions, published 1977, →ISBN, page 237
  2. (figuratively) A fertile, grain-growing region.
    Synonyms:
    breadbasket

Phrases with granaries

Questions about granaries

What is granaries the plural of?
Granaries is the plural of granary.

Words near granaries in the dictionary

  1. granal
  2. granam
  3. granams
  4. granarchist
  5. granarchists
  6. granaries
  7. granary
  8. granary bread
  9. granary breads
  10. granary loaf
  11. granary loaves

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