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Webster 1913 Edition

Granary

Gran′a-ry

,

Noun.

;

pl.

Granaries

(#)

.

[L.

granarium

, fr.

granum

grain. See

.]

1.

A storehouse or repository for grain, esp. after it is thrashed or husked; a cornhouse.

The exhaustless

granary

of a world.

Thomson.

Webster 1828 Edition

Granary

GRAN'ARY

,

Noun.

[L. granarium, from granum, grain.]

A store house or repository of grain after it is thrashed; a corn-house.

Definition 2024

granary

granary

English

Noun

granary ‎(plural granaries or granarys)

(agriculture) A storage facility for grain or sometimes animal feed.
(figuratively) A fertile, grain-growing region.

Derived terms

granary bread

See also

Translations

storage facility

Armenian: ամբար (hy) ‎(ambar)
Bulgarian: хамбар (bg) m ‎(hambar)
Catalan: graner
Chinese:
Mandarin: 筒倉, 筒仓 ‎(tǒngcāng), 糧倉 (zh), 粮仓 (zh) ‎(liángcāng)
Czech: sýpka f
Dutch: graanschuur
Finnish: aitta (fi)
French: grenier (fr) m
German: Kornhaus n
Greek: σιταποθήκη (el) m ‎(sitapothíki), σιτοβολώνας (el) m ‎(sitovolónas)
Hungarian: magtár (hu)
Italian: granaio (it)
Japanese: 穀倉 ‎(こくそう, kokusō)
Norman: grain'nie f

Korean: 곡창 (ko) ‎(gokchang)
Latin: granarium
Latvian: klēts f
Malay: jelapang
Polish: spichlerz (pl) m, spichrz (pl) m
Portuguese: celeiro (pt) m
Quechua: pirwa
Romanian: grânar (ro)
Russian: зернохрани́лище (ru) n ‎(zernoxranílišče), амба́р (ru) m ‎(ambár), жи́тница (ru) f ‎(žítnica)
Spanish: granero (es) m
Swahili: ghala (sw)
Swedish: spannmålsmagasin n, sädesmagasin n, kornbod c
Ukrainian: шпіхлір m ‎(špixlír)

fertile, grain-growing region

Bulgarian: житница (bg) f ‎(žitnica)
Finnish: vilja-aitta (fi)

Greek: σιτοβολώνας (el) m ‎(sitovolónas)
Swedish: kornbod c