grange

plural granges

1. archaicA granary.

   […] the loose unleter'd Hinds, / When for their teeming Flocks, and granges full / In wanton dance they praise the bounteous Pan.

   Comus

   1634 October 9 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC, line 175

2. UKA farm, with its associated buildings; a farmhouse, particularly one associated with a monastic order, or manor.

   What tell'st thou me of robbing? / This is Venice. My house is not a grange.

   c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], line 120

3. USA lodge of the Patrons of Husbandry, a fraternal organization.

plural Granges

1. UScountableuncountablewith definite articleThe National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry, an association of farmers organized in 1867 which sponsors social activities, community service, and political lobbying.
2. countableuncountableA state branch or branch lodge of the National Grange.

   Governor Johnson received the backing of the state Grange in his bid for re-election.

3. A place name, including:
   1. countableuncountableA beachside suburb of Adelaide, South Australia.
   2. countableuncountableA suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
   3. countableuncountableA village in County Sligo (Irish grid ref G6649).
   4. countableuncountableA village in County Tipperary.
   5. countableuncountableA village in County Waterford.
   6. countableuncountableA village in Borrowdale parish, Cumberland council area, Cumbria, England, previously in Allerdale borough (OS grid ref NY2517).

      Synonyms: Grange in Borrowdale

   7. countableuncountableA suburb of West Kirby, Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England (OS grid ref SK2286).
   8. countableuncountableA village in Perth and Kinross council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO2725).
   9. countableuncountableA parish between Keith and Knock in Moray council area, Scotland, historically in Banffshire.
4. A surname.
   1. countableuncountableA surname from English
   2. countableuncountableA surname from French