granary
Syllables: gran·a·ry/ˈɡɹan(ə)ɹi/US/ˈɡɹænəɹi/
granary noun: a storage facility for grain or sometimes animal feed.
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Noun
granary (plural granaries or (obsolete) granarys)
- 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
- [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.1983, Barry Cunliffe, chapter 6, in Danebury Hillfort, Stroud: Tempus
- A fertile, grain-growing region.
- Synonyms:
- breadbasket
granary meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
granary in Hindi
- storage facility
- धान्यागार dhānyāgār, अन्नागार annāgār, बखारी bakhārī
granary in Tamil
- களஞ்சியம், நெற்களஞ்சியம், கூலக் களஞ்சியம், குதிர், தானியக் கிடங்கு, கூலம் மிகுவிளை நாட்டுப் பகுதி
granary in Urdu
- غلہ گودام, کھلیان, کوٹھا
granary in Bengali
- শস্যভাণ্ডার, গোলাঘর
More languagesFewer languages
- granary in Telugu
- కోష్ఠము kōṣṭhamu
- granary in Malayalam
- കളപ്പുര, പത്തായപ്പുര, നെൽപ്പുര, ധാന്യങ്ങൾ വിളയുന്ന നാട്
- granary in Kannada
- ಕಣಜ kaṇaja
- granary in Gujarati
- કોઠી koṭhī
- granary in Odia
- କୋଠି koṭhi
- granary in Sanskrit
- पिटक piṭaka
- granary in Tagalog
- kamalig
- granary in Arabic
- مَخْزَن الْحُبُوب maḵzan al-ḥubūb, شُونَة šūna
- granary in Malay
- jelapang
- granary in Indonesian
- lumbung
- granary in Persian
- انبار anbâr, انبار غله anbâr-e ġalle
- granary in Thai
- ยุ้ง yúng, ฉาง chǎang
- granary in Vietnamese
- kho thóc, kho ngũ cốc
- granary in Myanmar
- စည့် cany., ကျီ kyi, စပါးကျီ ca.pa:kyi
Examples of granary in a sentence
- Farmers are busy reaping wheat to ensure every grain is transported into granary.
- A very similar granary with a light green glaze is illustrated in the Charles B.
- Granaries have been built in every brigade in the commune.
Synonyms of granary
Forms of granary
| plural | granaries |
|---|---|
| plural (obsolete) | granarys |
Origin of granary
Borrowed from Latin grānārium (16th century). Equivalent to grain + -ary. Doublet of garner.
Words formed from granary
Phrases with granary
Questions about granary
- What does granary mean?
- Granary means a storage facility for grain or sometimes animal feed.
- What is granary in Hindi?
- Granary in Hindi is धान्यागार (dhānyāgār), अन्नागार (annāgār), बखारी (bakhārī). See Granary meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is granary?
- Granary is a noun.
- How do you pronounce granary?
- Granary is pronounced /ˈɡɹan(ə)ɹi/ (UK).
- What is the plural of granary?
- The plural of granary is granaries.
Words near granary in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: granary (page history and authors); granary (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); granary (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Granary (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); granary (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ಕಣಜ (Kannada) (page history and authors); કોઠી (Gujarati) (page history and authors); କୋଠି (Odia) (page history and authors); पिटक (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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