'Granaries' definitions:
Definition of 'Granaries'
From: GCIDE
- Granary \Gran"a*ry\, n.; pl. Granaries. [L. granarium, fr. granum grain. See Garner.]
- 1. A storehouse or repository for grain, esp. after it is thrashed or husked; a cornhouse. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Hence: (Fig.), A region fertile in grain; in this sense, equivalent to breadbasket, used figuratively; as, Ukraine, the granary of the Soviet Union. [1913 Webster +PJC]
- The exhaustless granary of a world. --Thomson. [1913 Webster]