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grange

[greynj]
–noun
1. a farm, with its farmhouse and nearby buildings.
2. Chiefly British. a country house with its various farm buildings, usually constituting the dwelling of a yeoman or gentleman farmer.
3. the Grange. See under Granger Movement.
4. Archaic. a barn or granary.

Origin:
1150–1200; ME gra(u)nge barn < AF < VL *grānica (occurs in ML), equiv. to L grān(um) grain + -ica, fem. of -icus -ic

Grange

[greynj]
–noun
Harold (“Red”; “the Galloping Ghost”), 1903–1991, U.S. football player.

La Grange

[luh greynj]
–noun
1. a city in W Georgia. 24,204.
2. a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago. 15,681.

Granger Movement

–noun U.S. History.
a campaign for state control of railroads and grain elevators, esp. 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.
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grange   (grānj)   
n.  
  1. Grange Chiefly Northeastern U.S.

    1. An association of farmers founded in the United States in 1867.

    2. One of the branch lodges of this association.

  2. Chiefly British A farm, especially the residence and outbuildings of a gentleman farmer.

  3. Archaic A granary.


[Middle English, granary, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *grānica, from Latin grānum, seed; see gə-no- in Indo-European roots.]
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Word Origin & History

grange 
c.1112 (implied in granger), "granary, barn," from O.Fr. grange, from M.L. granica, from L. granum "grain." Sense evolved to "outlying farm" (c.1386), then "country house" (1552). Meaning "local lodge of the Patrons of Husbandry" (a U.S. agricultural interest promotion organization) is from 1867.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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