garner

See also: Garner

English

WOTD – 30 April 2008

Etymology

From Middle English gerner, from Old French gernier, guernier, variant of grenier, from Latin grānārium (“granary”). Doublet of granary.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑː.nə/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑːɹ.nɚ/
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Homophone (non-rhotic accents only): Ghana
Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)nə(ɹ)

Noun

garner (plural garners)

A granary; a store of grain.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Psalms 144:13:
  That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Matthew 3:12:
  Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
An accumulation, supply, store, or hoard of something.
- a. 1912, Voltairine de Cleyre, Death Shall Not Part Ye More
  Master, I bring from many wanderings,
  The gathered garner of my years to thee;
  One precious fruit of many rain-blown springs
  And sun-shod summers, ripened over-sea.

Translations

granary

Bulgarian: хамбар (bg) m (hambar)
Catalan: graner (ca) m
Danish: kornkammer n, magasin (da) n
Dutch: graanschuur (nl)
French: grenier (fr) m
Galician: celeiro (gl) m
Georgian: ბეღელი (beɣeli), ამბარი (ka) (ambari)
German: Magazin (de) n, Reservoir (de) n, Speicher (de) m, Vorratsraum (de) m
Italian: granaio (it) m
Persian: انبار‎ (fa) (anbâr)
Portuguese: celeiro (pt) m
Russian: амба́р (ru) m (ambár), закрома́ pl (zakromá)
Serbo-Croatian: hambar (sh), ambar (sh), žitnica (sh)
Spanish: granero (es) m
Swedish: spannmålsmagasin n, spannmålsbod c
Turkish: ambar (tr), depo (tr)

Verb

garner (third-person singular simple present garners, present participle garnering, simple past and past participle garnered) (transitive)

To reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary.
To gather, amass, hoard, as if harvesting grain.
- 1835, Honoré de Balzac, The Lily of the Valley, Chapter 2
  I walked enormous distances...garnering thoughts even from the heather.
- 1913, “Anton Berlage” in Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
  He garnered the fruit of his studies in seven volumes.
- 1956, Andrew North, Plague Ship, Chapter 14
  ...its fleet went out to garner in the elusive but highly succulent fish.
(often figurative) To earn; to get; to accumulate or acquire by some effort or due to some fact
Synonyms: reap, gain
He garnered a reputation as a language expert.
Her new book garnered high praise from the critics.
His poor choices garnered him a steady stream of welfare checks.
- 1983, Ronald Reagan, Proclamation 5031
  This country will never forget nor fail to honor those who have so courageously garnered our highest regard.
- 1999, Bill Clinton, Proclamation 7259
  President Roosevelt garnered the support of our working men and women...
(rare) To gather or become gathered; to accumulate or become accumulated; to become stored.
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), OCLC 630079698, pages 9–10:
  She soothed herself with the belief that the workings of her soul were still known to him,—that her regret and her despondency were but the needful preparation for that other sphere, where now her only remaining hope was garnered.
- 1849, Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H., verse 82
  For this alone on Death I wreak / The wrath that garners in my heart;

Usage notes

The "earn, acquire, accumulate" sense should be read as a figurative extension of the original "harvest, gather" sense, sometimes with some inanimate achievement or choice metaphorically doing the "gathering", as "The new book garnered high praise", or with an indirect object, as, "The new book garnered the author high praise". In this sense, the achievement, choice, or fact is actively gathering something, positive or negative, for its creator, even if that choice is inaction, as in "Failure to try can garner you the disapproval of the industrious".

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:garner.

Derived terms

garner up

Translations

to reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary

Bulgarian: прибирам (bg) (pribiram)
Catalan: engranerar (ca)
Danish: indhøste, indsamle (da)
French: engranger (fr)
Georgian: მოპოვება (moṗoveba), შეგროვება (šegroveba), შენახვა (šenaxva)
German: aufspeichern
Persian: درودن‎ (fa) (dorudan), درویدن‎ (fa) (deravidan)
Polish: zbierać (pl) impf, zebrać (pl) pf
Turkish: toplamak (tr)
Welsh: cywain (cy)

to gather, amass, hoard

Bulgarian: натрупвам (bg) (natrupvam)
German: einfahren (de), ernten (de)

to earn; to get; to accumulate

Bulgarian: придобивам (bg) (pridobivam)
German: erwerben (de) (reflexive), einbringen (de), einfahren (de)

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Translations to be checked

French: ^{(please verify)} rassembler (fr), ^{(please verify)} engranger (fr)

Anagrams

Garren, Graner, Ranger, ranger

Danish

Noun

garner n

indefinite plural of garn

Middle English

Noun

garner

Alternative form of gerner

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

garner

imperative of garnere