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A farm with delusions of grandeur, usually a name on a British house sign.
means A country house or farm estate — originally one with barns for storing grain, now mostly just a posh-sounding name on a gate.
from From Old French 'grange' (barn), rooted in Latin 'granica,' from 'granum' — grain. Medieval granges were the granaries and outbuildings of monasteries, where monks stored and managed harvests; over centuries the word drifted from the grain store itself to the whole farmstead, and eventually upmarket to any stately-sounding house that fancies a bit of agricultural pedigree.
- origin
- from Latin granica, grain storehouse
- real meaning
- outbuilding or farmstead on an estate
- status symbol
- now mostly means pricey converted barn
- farmers union
- also a 19th-century American farmers cooperative movement