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

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.

Example Sentences

Before Nashville beckoned, a 19-year-old Clark played in a family band with her mother called Sagebrush and Satin, gigging around local fairs, festivals and grange halls.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 9, 2021

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 what a find that was—a young, bright, beautiful presence to irradiate the shadows of this gloomy old haunted grange.

From The Heath Hover Mystery by Mitford, Bertram