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granary

noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹan(ə)ɹi/
  • General-American: /ˈɡɹænəɹi/
  • US, dialectal: /ˈɡɹeɪnəɹi/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A storage facility for grain or sometimes animal feed.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: agriculture, business, lifestyle

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A fertile, grain-growing region.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: figuratively

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: breadbasket

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: food bowl

3

noun

Meaning 3

a storehouse for threshed grain or animal feed

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: garner

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: storehouse, depot, entrepot, storage, store

Narrower terms: crib

History

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin grānārium (16th century). Equivalent to grain + -ary. Doublet of garner.

Across languages

Translations

173 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: hambar — storage facility
  • Arabic: مَخْزَن الْحُبُوب (maḵzan al-ḥubūb) — storage facility
  • Arabic: شُونَة (šūna) — storage facility
  • Juba Arabic: gugu — storage facility
  • Armenian: ամբար (ambar) — storage facility
  • Armenian: շտեմարան (štemaran) — storage facility
  • Atayal: khu — storage facility
  • Azerbaijani: anbar — storage facility
  • Bashkir: келәт (kelət) — storage facility
  • Basque: aletegi — storage facility
  • Belarusian: збожжасхо́вішча (zbožžasxóvišča) — storage facility
  • Belarusian: сві́ран (svíran) — storage facility
  • Belarusian: клець (kljecʹ) — storage facility
  • Belarusian: жы́тніца (žýtnica) — storage facility
  • Belarusian: амба́р (ambár) — storage facility
  • Bhojpuri: बखारी (bakhārī) — storage facility
  • Bulgarian: хамба́р (hambár) — storage facility
  • Bulgarian: жи́тница (žítnica) — storage facility
  • Burmese: စည့် (cany.) — storage facility
  • Burmese: ကျီ (kyi) — storage facility
  • Burmese: စပါးကျီ (ca.pa:kyi) — storage facility
  • Catalan: graner — storage facility
  • Chinese Mandarin: 筒倉 /筒仓 (tǒngcāng) — storage facility
  • Chinese Mandarin: 糧倉 /粮仓 (liángcāng) — storage facility
  • Chuvash: ампар (amp̬ar) — storage facility
  • Chuvash: кӗлет (kĕlet) — storage facility
  • Czech: sýpka — storage facility
  • Danish: lade — storage facility
  • Dutch: graanschuur — storage facility
  • Dutch: spieker — storage facility
  • Egyptian: m-a:Xr-r:pr (mẖr) — storage facility
  • Esperanto: garbejo — storage facility
  • Esperanto: grenejo — storage facility
  • Estonian: ait — storage facility
  • Farefare: bãarɛ — storage facility
  • Finnish: aitta — storage facility
  • French: grenier — storage facility
  • Galician: hórreo — storage facility
  • Galician: celeiro — storage facility
  • Georgian: ბეღელი (beɣeli) — storage facility
  • German: Getreidespeicher — storage facility
  • German: Kornhaus — storage facility
  • German: Kornspeicher — storage facility
  • German: Speicher — storage facility
  • Greek: σιταποθήκη (sitapothíki) — storage facility
  • Greek: σιτοβολώνας (sitovolónas) — storage facility
  • Ancient Greek: σιτοθήκη (sitothḗkē) — storage facility
  • Hebrew: מַמְּגוּרָה (mamgurá) — storage facility
  • Hebrew: אָסָם (asám) — storage facility
  • Hindi: धान्यागार (dhānyāgār) — storage facility
  • Hindi: अन्नागार (annāgār) — storage facility
  • Hindi: बखारी (bakhārī) — storage facility
  • Hungarian: magtár — storage facility
  • Hungarian: hombár — storage facility
  • Indonesian: lumbung — storage facility
  • Irish: gráinseach — storage facility
  • Irish: iothlainn — storage facility
  • Italian: granaio — storage facility
  • Japanese: 穀倉 (kokusō) — storage facility
  • Kanakanabu: riong — storage facility
  • Kazakh: қамба (qamba) — storage facility
  • Kazakh: қойма (qoima) — storage facility
  • Kazakh: албар (albar) — storage facility
  • Khmer: តឹក (tək) — storage facility
  • Khmer: ជង្រុក (cɔɔcŭəngruk) — storage facility
  • Khmer: កោដ្ឋ (kaot) — storage facility
  • Kikuyu: ikũmbĩ — storage facility
  • Korean: 곡창 (gokchang) — storage facility
  • Kyrgyz: кампа (kampa) — storage facility
  • Kyrgyz: амбар (ambar) — storage facility
  • Lao: ຍຸ້ງ (nyung) — storage facility
  • Lao: ສາງ (sāng) — storage facility
  • Lao: ເຍັຽ (nyīa) — storage facility
  • Latin: grānārium — storage facility
  • Latvian: klēts — storage facility
  • Latvian: klēts — storage facility
  • Lithuanian: klė́tis — storage facility
  • Macedonian: а́мбар (ámbar) — storage facility
  • Macedonian: житница (žitnica) — storage facility
  • Malay: jelapang — storage facility
  • Māori: pātaka pata — storage facility
  • Western Mari: клӓт (klät) — storage facility
  • Middle English: gerner — storage facility
  • Mongolian: амбаар (ambaar) — storage facility
  • Mongolian: агуулах (aguulax) — storage facility
  • Moore: baoore — storage facility
  • Khiamniungan Naga: pêi — storage facility
  • Norman: grain'nie — storage facility
  • Norwegian Bokmål: låve — storage facility
  • Occitan: granièr — storage facility
  • Pazeh: punia — storage facility
  • Persian: انبار (anbâr) — storage facility
  • Persian: انبار غله (anbâr-e ġalle) — storage facility
  • Plautdietsch: Spikja — storage facility
  • Polish: spichlerz — storage facility
  • Polish: spichrz — storage facility
  • Polish: śpichlerz — storage facility
  • Polish: świren — storage facility
  • Portuguese: celeiro — storage facility
  • Quechua: pirwa — storage facility
  • Romanian: grânar — storage facility
  • Russian: зернохрани́лище (zernoxranílišče) — storage facility
  • Russian: амба́р (ambár) — storage facility
  • Russian: жи́тница (žítnica) — storage facility
  • Scottish Gaelic: granaraidh — storage facility
  • Serbo-Croatian: жи̏тница — storage facility
  • Serbo-Croatian: а̏мба̄р — storage facility
  • Serbo-Croatian: ха̏мба̄р — storage facility
  • Serbo-Croatian: žȉtnica — storage facility
  • Serbo-Croatian: ȁmbār — storage facility
  • Serbo-Croatian: hȁmbār — storage facility
  • Slovak: sýpka — storage facility
  • Slovene: kašča — storage facility
  • Spanish: granero — storage facility
  • Swahili: ghala — storage facility
  • Swahili: ghala ya nafaka — storage facility
  • Swedish: spannmålsmagasin — storage facility
  • Swedish: sädesmagasin — storage facility
  • Swedish: kornbod — storage facility
  • Swedish: lada — storage facility
  • Tagalog: kamalig — storage facility
  • Tajik: анбор (anbor) — storage facility
  • Tajik: анбори ғалла (anbor-i ġalla) — storage facility
  • Tarifit: tasraft — storage facility
  • Tatar: амбар (ambar) — storage facility
  • Tatar: келәт (kelät) — storage facility
  • Telugu: కోష్ఠము (kōṣṭhamu) — storage facility
  • Thai: ยุ้ง (yúng) — storage facility
  • Thai: ฉาง (chǎang) — storage facility
  • Turkish: hububat ambarı — storage facility
  • Turkish: tahıl ambarı — storage facility
  • Ottoman Turkish: انبار (anbar) — storage facility
  • Ottoman Turkish: مخزن (mahzen) — storage facility
  • Turkmen: ammar — storage facility
  • Tyap: a̱gban — storage facility
  • Ugaritic: 𐎀𐎒𐎎 (ảsm) — storage facility
  • Ukrainian: шпіхлі́р (špixlír) — storage facility
  • Ukrainian: зерносхо́вище (zernosxóvyšče) — storage facility
  • Ukrainian: жи́тниця (žýtnycja) — storage facility
  • Ukrainian: комо́ра (komóra) — storage facility
  • Ukrainian: амба́р (ambár) — storage facility
  • Ukrainian: гамазе́й (hamazéj) — storage facility
  • Ukrainian: гамазе́я (hamazéja) — storage facility
  • Ukrainian: си́панець (sýpanecʹ) — storage facility
  • Uzbek: ombor — storage facility
  • Uzbek: omborxona — storage facility
  • Vietnamese: kho thóc — storage facility
  • Vietnamese: kho ngũ cốc — storage facility
  • Welsh: graneri — storage facility
  • Welsh: granar — storage facility
  • Welsh: llofft yr ŷd — storage facility
  • Belarusian: жы́тніца (žýtnica) — fertile, grain-growing region
  • Bulgarian: жи́тница (žítnica) — fertile, grain-growing region
  • Catalan: graner — fertile, grain-growing region
  • Chinese Mandarin: 糧倉 /粮仓 (liángcāng) — fertile, grain-growing region
  • Danish: kornkammer — fertile, grain-growing region
  • Dutch: graanschuur — fertile, grain-growing region
  • Finnish: vilja-aitta — fertile, grain-growing region
  • French: grenier à blé — fertile, grain-growing region
  • German: Kornkammer — fertile, grain-growing region
  • Greek: σιτοβολώνας (sitovolónas) — fertile, grain-growing region
  • Italian: granaio — fertile, grain-growing region
  • Macedonian: жи́тница (žítnica) — fertile, grain-growing region
  • Khiamniungan Naga: pêi — fertile, grain-growing region
  • Polish: spichlerz — fertile, grain-growing region
  • Polish: spichrz — fertile, grain-growing region
  • Polish: śpichlerz — fertile, grain-growing region
  • Portuguese: celeiro — fertile, grain-growing region
  • Russian: жи́тница (žítnica) — fertile, grain-growing region
  • Serbo-Croatian: жи̏тница — fertile, grain-growing region
  • Serbo-Croatian: žȉtnica — fertile, grain-growing region
  • Swedish: kornbod — fertile, grain-growing region
  • Ukrainian: жи́тниця (žýtnycja) — fertile, grain-growing region
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