Definitions for granges

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Spelling: [greynj]

IPA: /greɪndʒ/

Granges is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 170 anagrams from letters in granges (aeggnrs).

Definitions for granges

noun

1. Chiefly British. a country house or large farmhouse with its various farm buildings (usually in house names):
2. (in historical use) an isolated farm, with its farmhouse and nearby buildings, belonging to monks or nuns or to a feudal lord:
3. the Grange, See under Granger Movement.
4. Archaic. a barn or granary.
5. Harold ("Red"; "the Galloping Ghost") 1903–1991, U.S. football player.
6. a city in W Georgia.
7. a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
8. a campaign for state control of railroads and grain elevators, especially in the north central states, carried on during the 1870s by members of the Patrons of Husbandry (the Grange) a farmers' organization that had been formed for social and cultural purposes.

Origin of granges

1150-1200; Middle English gra(u)nge “barn,” from Anglo-French, from Vulgar Latin grānica (unattested), equivalent to Latin grān(i)um grain + -ica, feminine of -icus

Examples for granges

A subordinate grange for example is a community organization.

This rock, seen at a distance, seems to have the figure of a grange, or barn.

"If you could only live at the grange," she said, and Greta smiled.

And even Olivia allowed that the grange had not disappointed her.

Miss grange, who had been kind to Sidney in her probation months, taught her the method.

Drake rode over to the grange for breakfast, according to his promise.

She knew nobody in grange Lane or the neighbourhood to whom he could belong.

The grange had on several occasions declared for woman suffrage.

Have they shut the grange up, or is there still some one living there?

Miss Buell had been active in the work of the grange for 36 years.