granary

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈɡɹan(ə)ɹi/    美 /ˈɡɹænəɹi/|/ˈɡɹeɪnəɹi/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A storage facility for grain or sometimes animal feed.
    — For a long time the dormouse and polecat had seemed to him overfeeble enemies for his restless valour, even as the granary floor seemed to afford too narrow a field. Every day he read the papers of the previous day in the servants' hall of the houses he visited, and it appeared to him that this war in America, which was hailed as the awakening of the spirit of liberty and justice in the New World, ought to produce a revolution in France.
  2. A fertile, grain-growing region. figuratively

词形变化

granaries plural granarys obsolete,plural

词汇关系

衍生词
granary bread granary loaf granary tree granary weevil rat in a granary
相关词
grain elevator silo staddle stones

词源

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