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Webster 1913 Edition
Grange
1.
A building for storing grain; a granary.
[Obs.]
Milton.
2.
A farmhouse, with the barns and other buildings for farming purposes.
And eke an officer out for to ride,
To see her
To see her
granges
and her bernes wide. Chaucer.
Nor burnt the
grange
, nor bussed the milking maid. Tennyson.
3.
A farmhouse of a monastery, where the rents and tithes, paid in grain, were deposited.
[Obs.]
4.
A farm; generally, a farm with a house at a distance from neighbors.
5.
An association of farmers, designed to further their interests, and particularly to bring producers and consumers, farmers and manufacturers, into direct commercial relations, without intervention of middlemen or traders. The first grange was organized in 1867.
[U. S.]
Webster 1828 Edition
Grange
GRANGE
,Noun.
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Grange
Grange
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English
Proper noun
Grange
- (US) (usually, with "The") National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry, an association of farmers.
- A state branch or branch lodge of the National Grange
- Governor Johnson received the backing of the state Grange in his bid for re-election.
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See also: Grange
English
Noun
grange (plural granges)
- (US) A farmers' association organized in 1867. Officially called The National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry. The Grange operates at the local, county, and state levels by sponsoring social activities, community service, and political lobbying and promoting economic and agricultural unity in communities.
- (Britain) A farm, especially that of a gentleman farmer.
- ~1603, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act I, scene I, line 120:
- What tell'st thou me of robbing? / This is Venice. My house is not a grange.
- ~1603, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act I, scene I, line 120:
- (Europe) Outlying land belonging to a monastery.
- (archaic) A granary.
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French
Etymology
From Old French grange, from Medieval Latin granica, from Latin granum (“grain”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡʁɑ̃ʒ/
Noun
grange f (plural granges)
- a barn
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Norman
Etymology
From Medieval Latin granica, from Latin granum (“grain”).
Noun
grange f (plural granges)
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowing from Medieval Latin granica.
Noun
grange f (oblique plural granges, nominative singular grange, nominative plural granges)
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References
- (fr) Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (grange)
- grange on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub