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GRANARY: Dictionary Entry and Meaning

Pronunciation:  'greynuree

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [n]  a storehouse for threshed grain or animal feed
 
 Synonyms: garner
 
 See Also: depot, entrepot, storage, store, storehouse

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Gran"a*ry\, n.; pl. {Granaries}. [L. granarium, fr.
granum grain. See {Garner}.]
A storehouse or repository for grain, esp. after it is
thrashed or husked; a cornbouse; also (Fig.), a region
fertile in grain.
   The exhaustless granary of a world.         --Thomson.
 

 

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