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garner

Pronunciation: /ˈɡɑː.nə/

The English word “garner” has 6 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A granary; a store of grain.
  2. An accumulation, supply, store, or hoard of something.

verb

  1. To reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary.
  2. To gather, amass, hoard, as if harvesting grain.
  3. To earn; to get; to accumulate or acquire (attitudes, reputations, or actions from others) by some effort or due to some fact
  4. To gather or become gathered; to accumulate or become accumulated; to become stored.

Etymology

From Middle English gerner, from Old French gernier, guernier, variant of grenier, from Latin grānārium (“granary”). Doublet of granary.

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