grange

See also: Grange

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) Borrowed from Old French grange (“granary; barn; small farm”), from Vulgar Latin *granica, from Latin granum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɹeɪndʒ/
• Rhymes: -eɪndʒ

Noun

grange (plural granges)

1. (archaic) A granary.
   • 1634, John Milton, Comus, line 175:

     ... the loose unleter'd Hinds, / When for their teeming Flocks, and granges full / In wanton dance they praise the bounteous Pan.

2. (British) A farm, with its associated buildings; a farmhouse or manor.
   • ~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.

3. (US) A lodge of the Patrons of Husbandry, a fraternal organization.

Related terms

• granger

Anagrams

• Gagner, Ganger, ganger, nagger

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French

Etymology

From Middle French granche, from Old French grange, from Vulgar Latin *granica, from Latin grānum (“grain”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁɑ̃ʒ/

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Noun

grange f (plural granges)

1. a barn

Derived terms

• engranger

Related terms

• grain
• granger
• grenier

Further reading

• “grange”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• gagner

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Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -andʒe

Noun

grange f

1. plural of grangia

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Norman

Etymology

From Old French grange, from Vulgar Latin *granica, from Latin granum (“grain”).

Noun

grange f (plural granges)

1. (Jersey) barn

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Old French

Alternative forms

• granche

Etymology

From Gallic Vulgar Latin *granica, from Latin granum.

Noun

grange oblique singular, f (oblique plural granges, nominative singular grange, nominative plural granges)

1. granary
2. barn
3. grange; small farm

Derived terms

• grangier

Related terms

• grain

Descendants

• → English: grange
• → Galician: granxa, graña
• → Italian: grangia
• Middle French: granche
  • French: grange
• Norman: grange

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (grange)
• grange on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub