grange: [13] Originally, a grange was ‘somewhere for storing grain’, a ‘barn’. The word comes via Old French grange from medieval Latin grānica, a noun use of an unrecorded adjective *grānicus ‘of grain’, which was derived from grānum ‘grain, seed’ (source of English grain). Of its present-day meanings, ‘farm-house’ developed in the 14th century, ‘country house’ in the 16th century. => grain
grange (n.)
mid-13c. in surnames and place names; c. 1300 as "group of farms, small village," also "a granary, barn" (early 14c.), "outlying buildings of a monastic or other estate" (late 14c.), "small farm" (mid-15c.), and compare granger; from Anglo-French graunge, Old French grange "barn, granary; farmstead, farm house" (12c.), from Medieval Latin or Vulgar Latin granica "barn or shed for keeping grain," from Latin granum "grain," from PIE root *gre-no- "grain" (see corn (n.1)). Sense evolved to "outlying farm" (late 14c.), then "country house," especially of a gentleman farmer (1550s). Meaning "local lodge of the Patrons of Husbandry" (a U.S. farmers' cooperative and agricultural interest promotion organization) is from 1867.
中文解释
1. grain => gran- "grain" => *granage => grange.2. => barn or shed or place or field for keeping grain.
实用例句
1. Most of the New Grange site is an earth - covered cairn.
新格兰奇的大多数遗迹是被泥土覆盖的石堆.
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2. New Grange is one of the most extravagantly decorated prehistoric tombs.
新格兰奇是装饰最豪华的史前陵墓之一.
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3. In a few minutes Norman Grange stamped along the veranda.
几分钟以后,诺尔曼·格兰奇登登地沿着游廊走了过来.
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4. Grange answered a trifle harshly.
格兰奇的回答有点刺耳.
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5. Living this lonely life, Mrs. Grange got into the habit of talking out loud to herself.
