GRANGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does grange mean? 

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

1. an outlying farm

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRANGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An outlying farm

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

farm (workplace consisting of farm buildings and cultivated land as a unit)

 Context examples 

In a week, Mr. Rivers and Hannah repaired to the parsonage: and so the old grange was abandoned.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It is the famous old Jacobean grange of High Gable, one mile on the farther side of Oxshott, and less than half a mile from the scene of the tragedy.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

From the vine-yard and the vine-press, from the bouvary or ox-farm, from the marl-pits and salterns, even from the distant iron-works of Sowley and the outlying grange of St. Leonard's, they had all turned their steps homewards.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Yes, life of some kind there was; for I heard a movement—that narrow front-door was unclosing, and some shape was about to issue from the grange.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I am poor; for I find that, when I have paid my father's debts, all the patrimony remaining to me will be this crumbling grange, the row of scathed firs behind, and the patch of moorish soil, with the yew-trees and holly-bushes in front.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)