GARNER

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Dictionary entry overview: What does garner mean?

• GARNER (noun)
The noun GARNER has 1 sense:

1. a storehouse for threshed grain or animal feed

Familiarity information: GARNER used as a noun is very rare.

• GARNER (verb)
The verb GARNER has 3 senses:

1. acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions

2. store grain

3. assemble or get together

Familiarity information: GARNER used as a verb is uncommon.

Dictionary entry details

• GARNER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A storehouse for threshed grain or animal feed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

garner; granary

Hypernyms ("garner" is a kind of...):

depot; entrepot; storage; store; storehouse (a depository for goods)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "garner"):

crib (a bin or granary for storing grains)

Derivation:

garner (store grain)

• GARNER (verb)

Conjugation:

Present simple: I / you / we / they garner

... he / she / it garners

Past simple: garnered

Past participle: garnered

-ing form: garnering

Sense 1

Meaning:

Acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

earn; garner; win

Context example:

its beauty won Paris the name 'City of Lights'

Hypernyms (to "garner" is one way to...):

acquire; get (come into the possession of something concrete or abstract)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "garner"):

letter (win an athletic letter)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Store grain

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "garner" is one way to...):

store (find a place for and put away for storage)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

garner (a storehouse for threshed grain or animal feed)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Assemble or get together

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

collect; garner; gather; pull together

Context example:

pull your thoughts together

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "garner"):

marshal; mobilise; mobilize; summon (make ready for action or use)

heap up; pile up; stack up (arrange into piles or stacks)

shock (collect or gather into shocks)

clam (gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean)

pearl (gather pearls, from oysters in the ocean)

sponge (gather sponges, in the ocean)

oyster (gather oysters, dig oysters)

nest (gather nests)

bird-nest; birdnest (gather birdnests)

snail (gather snails)

nut (gather nuts)

cull; pick; pluck (look for and gather)

round up (seek out and bring together)

come up; muster; muster up; rally; summon (gather or bring together)

salvage; scavenge (collect discarded material)

hive (gather into a hive)

club (gather into a club-like mass)

glean; harvest; reap (gather, as of natural products)

rake (gather with a rake)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Context examples

What other changes have come upon me, besides the changes in my growth and looks, and in the knowledge I have garnered all this while?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

You seem to be garnering attention, and you may be doing charity work, a humanitarian or community project, or giving a lecture tour to share your ideas.