Definition of GARNER

garner

Meanings

Plural: garners

Noun

  • a storehouse for threshed grain or animal feed
  • A granary; a store of grain.
  • An accumulation, supply, store, or hoard of something.

Verb

  • acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions
  • store grain
  • assemble or get together
  • To reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary.
  • To gather, amass, hoard, as if harvesting grain.
  • To earn; to get; to accumulate or acquire by some effort or due to some fact
  • To gather or become gathered; to accumulate or become accumulated; to become stored.

Origin / Etymology

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

Synonyms

collect, earn, gain, gather, granary, pull together, reap

Antonyms

spread

Scrabble Score: 7

garner is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
garner is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
garner is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 9

garner is a valid Words With Friends word