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name
An English surname originating as an occupation for a granger (farm bailiff).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A place in the United States:
A city in Dallas County and Polk County, Iowa; named for railroad official C. T. Granger.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A place in the United States:
A town in Allegany County, New York state; named for American politician and Postmaster General Francis Granger.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A place in the United States:
A township and unincorporated community in Medina County, Ohio; named for American politician and Postmaster General Gideon Granger, son of Francis Granger.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A place in the United States:
A city in Yakima County, Washington; named for Washington Irrigation Company superintendent Walter Granger.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A place in the United States:
A town in Sweetwater County, Wyoming.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A locale in the United States; named for the organization.
A census-designated place in Indiana.
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name
A locale in the United States; named for the organization.
A city in Texas.
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name
A locale in the United States; named for the organization.
A village in Missouri.
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name
A settlement in Grand'Anse department, Haiti.
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noun
A member of the Grange, National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry, an association representing farmers.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
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noun
A farm steward.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
A member of the National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
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noun
a person who operates a farm
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: farmer, husbandman, sodbuster
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Broader terms: creator
Narrower terms: contadino, agriculturist, agriculturalist, cultivator, grower, raiser, beekeeper, apiarist, apiculturist, dairyman, dairy farmer, forester, tree farmer, arboriculturist, planter, plantation owner, rancher, smallholder, small farmer, sower, stockman, stock raiser, stock farmer, tenant farmer, tiller
History
From granger, from grange.
From Grange + -er, related to etymology 1.
Unknown.
From Middle English graunger, from Anglo-Norman granger, variant of Old French grangier, from grange, perhaps corresponding to Medieval Latin granicārium, from Vulgar Latin *granica, from Latin granum.
