Granger
See also: granger
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡɹeɪndʒə(ɹ)/
- Rhymes: -eɪndʒə(ɹ)
Proper noun
Granger
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- A city in Washington; named for Washington Irrigation Company superintendent Walter Granger.
- A city in Iowa; named for railroad official C. T. Granger.
- A town in New York; named for American politician and Postmaster General Francis Granger.
- A town in Wyoming.
- A settlement in the Grand'Anse department, Haiti.
- An unincorporated community in Ohio; named for American politician and Postmaster General Gideon Granger, son of Francis Granger.
Alternative forms
- Grainger (surname)
Etymology 2
From Grange + -er, related to etymology 1.
Noun
Granger (plural Grangers)
- (US) A member of the National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry. [from late 1860s or 1870s]
- 1873, Stephe R. Smith, Grains for the Grangers, Discussing All Points Bearing Upon the Farmers' Movement for the Emancipation of White Slaves from the Slave-Power of Monopoly, Union Publishing Company, page 237.
- From the North, South, East, and West the Grangers came, on horseback and in every conceivable style of vehicle.
- 1873, Stephe R. Smith, Grains for the Grangers, Discussing All Points Bearing Upon the Farmers' Movement for the Emancipation of White Slaves from the Slave-Power of Monopoly, Union Publishing Company, page 237.
- A locale in the United States; named for the organization.
- A census-designated place in Indiana.
- A city in Texas.
- A village in Missouri.
Categories:
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/eɪndʒə(ɹ)
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- en:Cities in Washington, USA
- en:Cities in the United States
- en:Places in Washington, USA
- en:Places in the United States
- en:Cities in Iowa, USA
- en:Places in Iowa, USA
- en:Towns in New York, USA
- en:Towns in the United States
- en:Places in New York, USA
- en:Towns in Wyoming, USA
- en:Places in Wyoming, USA
- en:Villages in Haiti
- en:Places in Haiti
- en:Unincorporated communities in Ohio, USA
- en:Unincorporated communities in the United States
- en:Places in Ohio, USA
- English terms suffixed with -er
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- American English
- English terms with quotations
- en:Census-designated places in Indiana, USA
- en:Census-designated places in the United States
- en:Places in Indiana, USA
- en:Cities in Texas, USA
- en:Places in Texas, USA
- en:Villages in Missouri, USA
- en:Villages in the United States
- en:Places in Missouri, USA