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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  

[graynj] / 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  

[graynj] / 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

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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

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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

He had seen to its lowering, and a wain-load of wheat from the grange at the Wallfield was coming slowly into the courtyard.

From Cedric, the Forester by Bernard Gay Marshall

Alexandar McDonald died at the Grange University Hospital in Cwmbran, Torfaen, on 30 November 2025, from the effects of metastatic choroidal melanoma, external.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

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

Inquests into inmates' deaths heard claims of strained relations between the two firms, including Serco managers moving to other prisons and trying to recruit officers from Lowdham Grange.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

The Old Grange on the west side had been knocked down, and its place taken by rows of tarred sheds.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Both men and women are admitted to membership and in several states junior granges for the older children are numerous.

From The Farmer and His Community by Dwight Sanderson

Likewise people associate in churches, granges, etc., but church parishes overlap, and the constituency of any one of these associations is not necessarily a community.

From The Farmer and His Community by Dwight Sanderson

This body was composed of the officers called Masters and Past Masters of the subordinate granges, or lodges, of a new secret society of agriculturists scattered throughout the state.

From Monopolies and the People by D. C. Cloud

Mention of visits to the granges or farms of the convents sometimes occurs.

From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Eileen Power

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

From Our Southern Highlanders by Horace Kephart

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