grange

Etymology

From Old French grange (“granary; barn; small farm”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

grange (plural granges)

1. (archaic) A granary.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Milton to this entry?)

2. (Britain) 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.

Anagrams

• Gagner, Ganger, ganger, nagger

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁɑ̃ʒ/

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Noun

grange f (plural granges)

1. a barn

Further reading

• “grange” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• gagner

Noun

grange f

1. plural of grangia

Etymology

From Medieval Latin granica, from Latin granum (“grain”).

Noun

grange f (plural granges)

1. (Jersey) barn

Alternative forms

• granche

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin granica.

Noun

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

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

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