grange
noun
a country house or large farmhouse with its various farm buildings (usually in house names): the grange of a gentleman-farmer.
granges
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pluralof grange.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
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
It includes also women who are wholesomely unknown to the world at large but well known in the granges and among the Christian Endeavorers.
From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV by Ida Husted Harper
Farmers' clubs and granges, though far from reaching ideal efficiency, furnish suggestions of the general utility.
From Rural Health and Welfare by George Thompson Fairchild
There are a National Grange at Washington, supervising the local divisions, and state granges in most states.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various
