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  grange

  noun

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

  noun

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

grange

¹ American  

[greynj] / greɪndʒ /

noun

• granges
  plural

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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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• granges
  plural

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

Explanation

Use the noun grange to mean a country farm house. A grange usually has outbuildings, like barns and sheds, which are often built onto the main grange house. On an old-fashioned, small farm, the farming family lives in the grange house, while they work on the surrounding land and in attached barns or workshops. You're more likely to hear the word grange in Britain than in the United States these days. A clue about its origins are found in gran: when you see that root, you'll know a word has something to do with grain, or granum in Latin.

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Clark’s mother, Sally, who also worked for a local mill, is an artist and musician and the two played together in a group called Sagebrush and Satin, gigging around local fairs and grange halls.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 3, 2024

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

And when the Troll got up, the companion crept on behind, and so off they set through the air to the king's grange.

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

Beard, whose beats carried hits like "La Grange" and "Sharp Dressed Man," had stepped back from touring last year after suffering unspecified health issues.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

The brainchild of French interior designer Jacques Grange, an area regular for 30 years, the development spans 35 hillside acres overlooking the Atlantic and Carvalhal’s rice fields.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

According to figures released by the MoJ on deaths at prisons across England and Wales, 22 inmates at Lowdham Grange have died since 2021.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

It isn’t one that was worn by Jim Thorpe, Red Grange, Jim Brown or any other early NFL legend.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Dutchy tells me what happened to him after he left the Grange Hall.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

Labor chiefs fail to organize unions or granges among them because they simply will not stick together.

From Our Southern Highlanders by Horace Kephart

They are of particular value for securing collections of books on special topics for the use of granges, churches, and study clubs of all sorts.

From The Farmer and His Community by Dwight Sanderson

The church serves so well the social needs of the community that a social hall once popular has been closed and three granges in succession have attempted to organize in the community and have failed.

From The Evolution of the Country Community A Study in Religious Sociology by Warren H. (Warren Hugh) Wilson

The former were employed chiefly in domestic duties, and various trades, and were entrusted with the charge of the granges or outlying farms.

From Mellifont Abbey, Co. Louth Its Ruins and Associations, a Guide and Popular History by Anonymous

The stately and solemn ilex, marshalled into long avenues, showed the way to substantial granges or luxurious villas.

From Callista : a Tale of the Third Century by John Henry Newman