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.
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.
