garner

See also: Garner

English

WOTD – 30 April 2008

Etymology

From Middle English gerner, borrowed from Old French gernier, guernier, variant of grenier, from Latin grānārium (“granary”). Doublet of granary.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑː.nə/
• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑːɹ.nɚ/

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• Homophone (non-rhotic accents only): Ghana
• Rhymes: -ɑː(r)nə(r)

Noun

garner (plural garners)

1. A granary; a store of grain.
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     That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets.

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     Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

2. An accumulation, supply, store, or hoard of something.

Translations

granary

• Bulgarian: хамбар (bg) m (hambar)
• Catalan: graner (ca) m
• Danish: kornkammer n, magasin (da) n
• Dutch: graanschuur (nl)
• French: grenier (fr) m
• Galician: celeiro (gl) m
• Georgian: ბეღელი (beɣeli), ამბარი (ka) (ambari)
• German: Magazin (de) n, Reservoir (de) n, Speicher (de) m, Vorratsraum m
• Italian: granaio (it) m
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• Persian: انبار (fa) (anbâr)
• Portuguese: celeiro (pt) m
• Russian: амба́р (ru) m (ambár), закрома́ pl (zakromá)
• Serbo-Croatian: hambar (sh), ambar (sh), žitnica (sh)
• Spanish: granero (es) m
• Swedish: spannmålsmagasin n, spannmålsbod c
• Turkish: ambar (tr), depo (tr)

Verb

garner (third-person singular simple present garners, present participle garnering, simple past and past participle garnered) (transitive)

1. To reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary.
2. To gather, amass, hoard, as if harvesting grain.
   • 1835, Honoré de Balzac, The Lily of the Valley, Chapter 2

     I walked enormous distances...garnering thoughts even from the heather.

   • 1913, “Anton Berlage” in Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913

     He garnered the fruit of his studies in seven volumes.

   • 1956, Andrew North, Plague Ship, Chapter 14

     ...its fleet went out to garner in the elusive but highly succulent fish.

3. (often figurative) To earn; to get; to accumulate or acquire by some effort or due to some fact

   Synonyms: reap, gain

   He garnered a reputation as a language expert.

   Her new book garnered high praise from the critics.

   His poor choices garnered him a steady stream of welfare checks.

   • 1983, Ronald Reagan, Proclamation 5031

     This country will never forget nor fail to honor those who have so courageously garnered our highest regard.

   • 1999, Bill Clinton, Proclamation 7259

     President Roosevelt garnered the support of our working men and women...

4. (rare) To gather or become gathered; to accumulate or become accumulated; to become stored.
   • 1849, Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H., verse 82

     For this alone on Death I wreak / The wrath that garners in my heart;

Usage notes

The "earn, acquire, accumulate" sense should be read as a figurative extension of the original "harvest, gather" sense, sometimes with some inanimate achievement or choice metaphorically doing the "gathering", as "The new book garnered high praise", or with an indirect object, as, "The new book garnered the author high praise". In this sense, the achievement, choice, or fact is actively gathering something, positive or negative, for its creator, even if that choice is inaction, as in "Failure to try can garner you the disapproval of the industrious".

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:garner.

Translations

to reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary

• Catalan: engranerar (ca)
• Danish: indhøste, indsamle (da)
• French: engranger (fr)
• Georgian: მოპოვება (moṗoveba), შეგროვება (šegroveba), შენახვა (šenaxva)
• German: aufspeichern
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• Persian: درودن (fa) (dorudan), درویدن (fa) (deravidan)
• Polish: zbierać (pl) impf, zebrać (pl) pf
• Turkish: toplamak (tr)
• Welsh: cywain (cy)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} rassembler (fr), ^{(please verify)} engranger (fr)
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Anagrams

• Garren, Graner, Ranger, ranger

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Danish

Noun

garner n

1. (deprecated template usage) indefinite plural of garn

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Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

garner

1. (deprecated template usage) imperative of garnere