Definitions for granary

granary gra·na·ry

Spelling: [grey-nuh-ree, gran-uh-]
IPA: /ˈgreɪ nə ri, ˈgræn ə-/

Granary is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 77 anagrams from letters in granary (aagnrry).

Definitions for granary

noun

  1. a storehouse or repository for grain, especially after it has been threshed or husked.
  2. a region that produces great quantities of grain.

Origin of granary

1560-70; Latin grānārium, equivalent to grān(um) grain + -ārium -ary

Examples for granary

I, along with three other men-servants, slept in a granary in the yard.

She showed him the granary, and told him there wasn't such another in Africa.

Unfortunately, in Mr. Boltay's house there was no room of that size, except a granary.

This land had become the nation's granary; it was a land redeemed.

During the Revolution it was used as a granary and then as a club.

Heavy at heart the students left the granary and put away the lantern.

The granary alone, then, could be the shelter of the invader, whoever he might be.

My pens were full of slaves; my granary, of rice; my stores, of merchandise.

Shortly after his marriage he entered the service of the state as keeper of the granary.

Getting near the granary, the elephants stopped to examine it.

Word Value for granary
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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