grange

¹ American  

[greynj] / greɪndʒ /

noun

1. Chiefly British. a country house or large farmhouse with its various farm buildings (usually in house names): the grange of a gentleman-farmer.

   Bulkeley Grange;

   the grange of a gentleman-farmer.

2. (in historical use) an isolated farm, with its farmhouse and nearby buildings, belonging to monks or nuns or to a feudal lord.

   the nunnery's grange at Tisbury.

3. the Grange, Granger Movement

4. Archaic. a barn or granary.

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Grange ² American  

[greynj] / greɪndʒ /

noun

1. Harold Redthe Galloping Ghost, 1903–1991, U.S. football player.

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grange ¹ British  

/ ɡreɪndʒ /

noun

1. a farm, esp a farmhouse or country house with its various outbuildings

2. history an outlying farmhouse in which a religious establishment or feudal lord stored crops and tithes in kind

3. archaic a granary or barn

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Grange ² British  

/ ɡreɪndʒ /

noun

1. an association of farmers that strongly influenced state legislatures in the late 19th century

2. a lodge of this association

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Etymology

Origin of grange

1150–1200; Middle English gra(u)nge “barn,” from Anglo-French, from Vulgar Latin grānica (unattested), equivalent to Latin grān(i)um grain + -ica, feminine of -icus -ic

Example Sentences

SAT Antique car show, learn about the grange, noon-3 p.m.,

From Seattle Times • Oct. 10, 2018

It’s an old town built on what was originally grange, or field lands, held by Dublin churches.

From The New Yorker • May 22, 2017

The place was imposing only in comparison to the buildings that surrounded it; perhaps it was a grange hall once, or seat of government.

From Slate • Mar. 6, 2017

Such textiles turn up in performance spaces, fraternal organizations, grange halls, government offices and schoolhouses.

From New York Times • Nov. 19, 2015

So at last they had nothing more, for there was an end of everything; and Peik trotted off, and walked and walked till he came to the king's grange.

From Tales from the Fjeld A Second Series of Popular Tales by Asbj?rnsen, P. Chr.