granary
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5.3
- noun
- /ˈɡrænəri/
:
granero
- Numidia, which, in antiquity, was the granary of Rome, will become before long that of France.
- granary storehouse
- rice granary
- granary was built
Examples
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Each wife and her children formed a household with its own fields, granaries, and livestock.
Academic text (1998) -
Surplus grain from bountiful harvests was stored in underground granaries as a hedge against crop failure during drought years.
Academic text (1992) -
You better start building a new granary.
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We can appeal to those gentlemen in the granary, appeal to their humanity.
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I was at the granary taking the inventory!
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They came to the granary.
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The temple granaries are full.
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Sensing trouble, the women had removed them and hidden them inside a granary in the village.
Fiction book (1991) -
The houses and the granaries are built out of a combination of mud and stone.
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The farmer stored the harvested wheat in the granary to protect it from the weather.
Synonyms
363
1.0
A large farm building for storing hay or keeping animals
20
7.6
A bin on a farm for storing grain such as corn
19
9.9
A building where farmers keep grain after the harvest
10
3.1
A building where goods are kept for later use
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Etymology
Granary comes from the Latin word granum, meaning 'grain', and the ending -ary, meaning 'a place for'. So a granary is literally a place for grain, which is why farmers store their harvest there.