Grange

How to spell grange

6 letters · 1 syllable

How to pronounce grange

What does grange mean?

1. nounA country house with farm buildings attached, or a small farmstead.

Grange in a sentence

• They bought an old stone grange on the edge of the village.

• The grange had a cobbled yard and a long row of barns.

Where does grange come from?

Language of origin: French

The word arrived in English from Old French grange, which meant a barn or granary, the building where harvested grain was stored. That French noun grew out of the Medieval Latin granica, itself based on the Latin granum, meaning simply 'grain' or 'seed'. So at its root a grange was literally 'the place for the grain', and the same granum lies behind familiar relatives such as 'granary', 'granule' and 'grain' itself. English took the word in the 1200s, and over time it broadened from a single grain-store to mean a whole outlying farm with its barns and, later, a substantial country house attached to a farm. The silent link to 'grain' is a useful memory hook: the spelling keeps the gran- of grain before the soft -ge ending.

How the word is built

• gran- (from Latin granum: grain)
• -ge (from the French noun ending)