a storehouse or repository for grain, especially after it has been threshed or husked.
a region that produces great quantities of grain.
a building or store room for storing threshed grain, farm feed, etc
a region that produces a large amount of grain
1560–70; < Latin grānārium, equivalent to grān ( um ) grain + -ārium -ary
If you're wondering where to store your grain, the simple answer is — in a granary. Not much more to say, really. A granary is where grain is stored. One clear way to remember the meaning of granary is that it sounds like what it is. If I were to ask you to invent a word that means "the place where grain is stored" you'd very likely come up with granary — though admittedly, the spelling is a little different. In the same way that wine comes from a winery, you'll find granaries the world over filled with, well, grain.
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The evo Hotel sits in the Granary District just south of downtown.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 10, 2024
A local friend and I took a 35-minute drive, past horse farm after horse farm, to Granary Road.
From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2022
Last season, Granary of Sloboda's harvest amounted to 3,000 tons of wheat, 3,000 tons of sunflower and 1,000 tons of corn.
From Reuters • Apr. 11, 2022
There was mixed emotions about leaving the mountains for Granary Cottage in the picturesque village of Nonington, a short drive from Shaun's new lecturing job at the University of Kent in nearby Canterbury.
From BBC • Nov. 29, 2017
Near forty years ago, a meeting was held in Faneuil Hall, to consider a proposition for some change, in the Granary burying-ground, which proposition, was rejected, by acclamation.
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old
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