grange
noun/ɡɹeɪnd͡ʒ/
Etymology From Middle English graunge, borrowed from Old French grange (“granary; barn; small farm”), from Vulgar Latin *grānica, from Latin grānum (“grain”).
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Archaic A granary.
- […] the loose unleter'd Hinds, / When for their teeming Flocks, and granges full / In wanton dance they praise the bounteous Pan.1634 October 9 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC, line 175:
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UK A farm, with its associated buildings; a farmhouse, particularly one associated with a monastic order, or manor.
- What tell'st thou me of robbing? / This is Venice. My house is not a grange.c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], line 120:
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US A lodge of the Patrons of Husbandry, a fraternal organization.
- Derived terms
- Grange Court, Grangegate, Grange Hill, Grange Park, Kembla Grange, Letham Grange, Newgrange, Sutton Grange, Trimdon Grange, Woolley Grange