Other forms: granaries
A granary is a building where grain is stored. Fill the granary, a stone granary, the granary of the empire.
The figurative use is old and grand: Egypt was called the granary of Rome because it fed the city. Old ones stand on staddle stones, mushroom-shaped supports that stop rats climbing in.
1noungranaryA building where grain is stored.
“The farmers kept the harvested wheat in a stone granary to keep it dry.”
granary is a building.
Latin granarium comes from granum, grain; garner is a doublet.
Proto-Indo-European
*ǵerh₂-
Latin
grānārium
English, today
granary
Latin grānārium (16th century). Equivalent to grain + -ary. a doublet of garner.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA