grange

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

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

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.

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

• granger

• Gagner, Ganger, ganger, nagger

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

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁɑ̃ʒ/

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grange f (plural granges)

1. a barn

• engranger

• grain
• granger
• grenier

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

• gagner

grange f

1. plural of grangia

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

grange f (plural granges)

1. (Jersey) barn

• granche

From Gallic Vulgar Latin *granica, from Latin granum.

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

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

• grangier

• grain

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

• 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