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Definition of Grainger
1. Noun. United States composer (born in Australia) who lived in London and collected English folk songs (1882-1961).
Generic synonyms: Composer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grainger
Literary usage of Grainger
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN, Sidney Lee (1890)
"He was the son, by a second marriage, of John Grainger of Houghton Hall, Cumberland,
... On the death of his father, his half-brother, William Grainger of ..."
2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1912)
"Robert Grainger and Missie Marlow were convicted of murder in the second degree,
and appeal. ... Grainger had a gun, and, before he got back into the buggy, ..."
3. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including A Journal of a Tour to the by James Boswell, John Wilson Croker (1831)
"Johnson said, that Dr. Grainger was an agreeable man; a man who would do any ...
The bishop gives this character of Dr. Grainger: " He was not only a man ..."
4. Bulletin by Tennessee Division of Geology, Geological Survey, Division of Geology, Tennessee (1913)
"Fossils which have been found in the Grainger shale in regions toward the northeast
indicate that its upper part is of Carboniferous (Mississippian) age, ..."
5. The State Records of North Carolina by North Carolina, Walter Clark, William Laurence Saunders, Stephen Beauregard Weeks (1910)
"Grainger (Graingers, Granger), Caleb, act for him to build bridge, 23. ...
Grainger, Joshua, in militia, 22. 384. Grainger, Joshua, proposed as commissioner ..."
6. Our Foreign-born Citizens: What They Have Done for America by Annie E. S. Beard (1922)
"Born in Melbourne, Australia, about forty years ago, Percy Grainger began to play
at five years old, studying music with his mother until he was ten. ..."
7. Reports of Cases in Bankruptcy: Decided by the Lord Chancellor Brougham, the by Basil Montagu, William Scrope Ayrton, Great Britain Court of Review (1834)
"i • • jurisdiction to In November 1812 Grainger petitioned that the time actions to
... In 1824 Grainger commenced an action of trover against Mr. George, ..."
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