granary

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: gran=a=ry

CIDE DICTIONARY

granary, n. [L. granarium, fr. granum grain. See Garner.].

•  A storehouse or repository for grain, esp. after it is thrashed or husked; a cornhouse.  [1913 Webster]
•  A region fertile in grain; in this sense, equivalent to breadbasket, used figuratively; as, Ukraine, the granary of the Soviet Union.  [1913 Webster]

  "The exhaustless granary of a world."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

granary, n. (pl. -ies)
1 a storehouse for threshed grain.
2 a region producing, and esp. exporting, much corn.

Etymology

L granarium f. granum grain

ROGET THESAURUS

granary

Store

N store, stock, fund, mine, vein, lode, quarry, spring, fount, fountain, well, wellspring, milch cow, stock in trade, supply, heap, treasure, reserve, corps de reserve, reserved fund, nest egg, savings, bonne bouche, crop, harvest, mow, vintage, store, accumulation, hoard, rick, stack, lumber, relay, storehouse, storeroom, storecloset, depository, depot, cache, repository, reservatory, repertory, repertorium, promptuary, warehouse, entrepot, magazine, buttery, larder, spence, garner, granary, cannery, safe-deposit vault, stillroom, thesaurus, bank, armory, arsenal, dock, gallery, museum, conservatory, menagery, menagerie, reservoir, cistern, aljibar, tank, pond, mill pond, gasometer, budget, quiver, bandolier, portfolio, coffer, conservation, storing, storage, keep, file (papers), lay in, preserve, Adj, stored, in store, in reserve, in ordinary, spare, supernumerary, adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit.