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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To gather and store in or as if in a granary.
  2. v. To amass; acquire. See Synonyms at reap.
  3. n. A granary.
  4. n. An accumulation or collection of something.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A granary; a building or place where grain is stored for preservation; hence, a store of anything, especially of knowledge or experience: now chiefly in figurative use.
  2. To store in or as if in a granary; hoard: chiefly in figurative use.
  3. Synonyms To gather, collect, lay in, husband.
  4. To grow in quantity or amount; accumulate.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A granary; a store of grain.
  2. n. An accumulation, supply, store, or hoard of something.
  3. v. To reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary.
  4. v. To gather, amass, hoard, as if harvesting grain.
  5. v. often figurative To earn; to get; to accumulate or acquire by some effort or due to some fact; to reap.
  6. v. rare, intransitive to gather or become gathered; to accumulate or become accumulated; to become stored.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A granary; a building or place where grain is stored for preservation.
  2. v. To gather for preservation; to store, as in a granary; to treasure.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. assemble or get together
  2. v. store grain
  3. v. acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions
  4. n. a storehouse for threshed grain or animal feed

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English gerner, from Old French gernier, variant of grenier, from Latin grānārium ("granary") (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from garner, gerner, granary, from Old French gernier, grenier, from Latin grānārium; see granary. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Yet this genius of a reporter, and probably others, think we should just forget about going back to the moon becasue at present, global warming and energy independence gets more headlines, never stopping to think of the technology and skills we could garner from a return to the Moon and onto Mars.”

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  • “Ever had an idea for a recipe that, in your mind and on paper, looked brilliant - patent making, gazillions of books publishing perfect - but in practice all you manage to garner is a barely satisfactory "meh"?”

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  • “Although the impolite host wound up abruptly canceling the bonfire, there are several lessons one could garner from the barbecue that wasn't.”

    The Huffington Post: Jorge A. Rey: Lessons From the Barbecue that Wasn't

  • “But it should be noted that occupation monitoring organizations such as Peace Now, B'tselem, and Yesh Din garner respect in society and are recognized as important resources for information.”

    Global Voices in English » Israel: A Belief In Coexistence – Interview With Activist Ibn Ezra

  • “At the risk of moving beyond review and into critique, here are a few things I was able to garner from the text that made me think there might be something more than a simple tale.”

    REVIEW: Pirate Freedom by Gene Wolfe

  • “Nor did he recieved huges lump sums of money garner from the misery of those who WERE defrauded!”

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  • “So congrats to the wohle Garner-Afleck family! do have the kids the name garner inside, too? like violet anne garner affleck or something like that?”

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  • “Garnering Right Ideas "garner" - gather; a gathering of my thoughts which are usually right of center leave a comment » Written by garneringrightideas …”

    The American Spectator

  • “Perhaps, the most I can garner from a work of fantasy is the hint of a sense of life – a subconscious view of existence –” an emotional appraisal of life” – the widest and the most vague equivalent of an explicit metaphysical value-judgment.”

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  • “Gerald, is he trying to kind of garner public favor with this YouTube video?”

    CNN Transcript Aug 19, 2009

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synonyms (4)

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  1. granary
  1. treasure
  1. accumulate
  1. store

hypernyms (1)

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  1. store

hyponyms (33)

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  1. hive
  2. mobilise
  3. scavenge
  4. rake
  5. pluck
  6. sponge
  1. oyster
  2. birdnest
  3. bird-nest
  4. pick
  5. marshal
  6. pile up
  1. salvage
  2. mobilize
  3. round-up
  4. muster
  5. come up
  6. stack up
  1. nest
  2. cull
  3. muster up
  4. reap
  5. shock
  6. rally
  1. pearl
  2. club
  3. clam
  4. nut
  5. summon
  6. harvest
  1. snail
  2. glean
  3. heap up

rhymes (2)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. darner
  1. foreigner

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  1. reap
  1. gerner
  1. garnery
  1. graner
  1. corral

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  • bilby "MARCIUS: Nay, let them follow:
    The Volsces have much corn; take these rats thither
    To gnaw their garners."
    - William Shakespeare, 'The Tragedy of Coriolanus'. Aug 28, 2009

  • chained_bear Hmm... So James Garner is actually an accumulation of...jameses? Mar 6, 2007

  • azd noun, meaning 1. Granary or grain bin, or 2. something that is collected, an accumulation. Mar 6, 2007

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