name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
garner
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɡɑː.nə/
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US: /ˈɡɑːɹ.nɚ/
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homophone: Ghana (non-rhotic)
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rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)nə(ɹ)
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CMU ARPABET: G AA1 R N ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A place in the United States:
A town in White County, Arkansas.
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name
Meaning 3
A place in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Hancock County, Iowa.
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name
Meaning 4
A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Linn County, Missouri.
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name
Meaning 5
A place in the United States:
A town in Wake County, North Carolina.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 6
A granary; a store of grain.
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noun
Meaning 7
An accumulation, supply, store, or hoard of something.
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verb
Meaning 8
To reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 9
To gather, amass, hoard, as if harvesting grain.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 10
To earn; to get; to accumulate or acquire (attitudes, reputations, or actions from others) by some effort or due to some fact
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, often, transitive
Examples
- To garner support
- He garnered a reputation as a language expert.
- Her new book garnered high praise from the critics.
- His poor choices garnered him a steady stream of welfare checks.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: reap, gain
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 11
To gather or become gathered; to accumulate or become accumulated; to become stored.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare, transitive
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noun
Meaning 12
a storehouse for threshed grain or animal feed
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: granary
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: storehouse, depot, entrepot, storage, store
Narrower terms: crib
verb
Meaning 13
assemble or get together
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- gather some stones
- pull your thoughts together
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: gather, collect, pull together
Antonyms: none provided
Narrower terms: mobilize, mobilise, marshal, summon, rake, reap, harvest, glean, club, hive, salvage, scavenge, muster, rally, come up, muster up, round up, pick, pluck, cull, nut, snail, birdnest, bird-nest, nest, oyster, sponge, pearl, clam, shock, pile up, heap up, stack up
verb
Meaning 14
store grain
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: store
verb
Meaning 15
acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: earn
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: get, acquire
Narrower terms: letter
History
Etymology
From Middle English gerner, from Old French gernier, guernier, variant of grenier, from Latin grānārium (“granary”). Doublet of granary.
Across languages
Translations
58 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: хамбар (hambar) — granary
- Catalan: graner — granary
- Danish: kornkammer — granary
- Danish: magasin — granary
- Dutch: graanschuur — granary
- French: grenier — granary
- Galician: celeiro — granary
- Georgian: ბეღელი (beɣeli) — granary
- Georgian: ამბარი (ambari) — granary
- German: Magazin — granary
- German: Reservoir — granary
- German: Speicher — granary
- German: Vorratsraum — granary
- Italian: granaio — granary
- Persian: انبار (anbâr) — granary
- Portuguese: celeiro — granary
- Russian: амба́р (ambár) — granary
- Russian: закрома́ (zakromá) — granary
- Serbo-Croatian: hambar — granary
- Serbo-Croatian: ambar — granary
- Serbo-Croatian: žitnica — granary
- Spanish: granero — granary
- Swedish: spannmålsmagasin — granary
- Swedish: spannmålsbod — granary
- Turkish: ambar — granary
- Turkish: depo — granary
- Ottoman Turkish: انبار (anbar) — granary
- Ottoman Turkish: مخزن (mahzen) — granary
- Bulgarian: прибирам (pribiram) — to reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary
- Catalan: engranerar — to reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary
- Danish: indhøste — to reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary
- Danish: indsamle — to reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary
- French: engranger — to reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary
- Georgian: მოპოვება (moṗoveba) — to reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary
- Georgian: შეგროვება (šegroveba) — to reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary
- Georgian: შენახვა (šenaxva) — to reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary
- German: aufspeichern — to reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary
- Persian: درودن (dorudan) — to reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary
- Persian: درویدن (deravidan) — to reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary
- Polish: zbierać — to reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary
- Polish: zebrać — to reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary
- Turkish: toplamak — to reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary
- Welsh: cywain — to reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary
- Bulgarian: натрупвам (natrupvam) — to gather, amass, hoard
- Czech: sbírat — to gather, amass, hoard
- Czech: sesbírat — to gather, amass, hoard
- Czech: sebrat — to gather, amass, hoard
- German: einfahren — to gather, amass, hoard
- German: ernten — to gather, amass, hoard
- Spanish: recabar — to gather, amass, hoard
- Spanish: recabdar (disused) — to gather, amass, hoard
- Bulgarian: придобивам (pridobivam) — to earn; to get; to accumulate
- Czech: získat — to earn; to get; to accumulate
- German: erwerben — to earn; to get; to accumulate
- German: einbringen — to earn; to get; to accumulate
- German: einfahren — to earn; to get; to accumulate
- Spanish: recabar — to earn; to get; to accumulate
- Spanish: formar — to earn; to get; to accumulate
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