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grange

grange

7 8.8
A large farm with its farmhouse and buildings in the countryside
  • noun
  • /ɡreɪndʒ/
  • Archaic
translation icon : granja
  • After the harvest, the workers celebrated their hard work at the Grange during a festive gathering.
  • grange hall
  • Grange Farm

Examples

  • The old Grange, surrounded by fields and trees, had been in the family for generations.

  • Way more serious in terms of produce is the Brooklyn Grange urban rooftop farm.

    Blog text (4)

  • James Garfield actively opposed cooperative farm programs such as those supported by the Grange, an agrarian organization.

    4 Presidents (2020)

  • Another wagon with sheaves pulls into the loft, another round of thunder shakes the grange; glass rattles in the windowpanes.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • The Grange was a vast farmland that included a large farmhouse and several outbuildings.

Synonyms

farm
vsgrange
∞ 1.0

A place with fields and buildings for growing crops or keeping animals

is a large rural house with its buildings rather than a business
homestead
vsgrange
23 4.1

A house with the land around it, usually in the countryside for farming

focuses on a large rural house often with historic ties and many buildings
farmstead
vsgrange
3 4.8

The main group of buildings on a farm and the land around them

is a large rural house with associated buildings and historic ties

How Big

estate
553 4.2
grange
  • Archaic
7 8.8
farm
∞ 1.0
smallholding
  • UK
7.1

Surface Forms

grange singular
granges plural

Etymology

Grange comes from old words that mean 'grain', the same idea you see in grain and granary. It first meant a barn or farm where grain was stored, often run by a monastery, and so today grange still means a farmhouse and its buildings.