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Definition of Garner
1. Verb. Acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions.
Generic synonyms: Acquire, Get
Specialized synonyms: Letter
Derivative terms: Earnings
2. Noun. A storehouse for threshed grain or animal feed.
Specialized synonyms: Crib
Generic synonyms: Depot, Entrepot, Storage, Store, Storehouse
3. Verb. Store grain.
4. Verb. Assemble or get together. "Pull your thoughts together"
Specialized synonyms: Marshal, Mobilise, Mobilize, Summon, Rake, Glean, Harvest, Reap, Club, Hive, Salvage, Scavenge, Come Up, Muster, Muster Up, Rally, Summon, Round Up, Cull, Pick, Pluck, Nut, Snail, Bird-nest, Birdnest, Nest, Oyster, Sponge, Pearl, Clam, Shock, Heap Up, Pile Up, Stack Up
Derivative terms: Collecting, Collection, Gather
Also: Gather Up
Antonyms: Spread
Definition of Garner
1. n. A granary; a building or place where grain is stored for preservation.
2. v. t. To gather for preservation; to store, as in a granary; to treasure.
Definition of Garner
1. Noun. A granary; a store of grain. ¹
2. Noun. An accumulation, supply, store, or hoard of something. ¹
3. Verb. To reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary. ¹
4. Verb. To gather, amass, hoard, as if harvesting grain. ¹
5. Verb. (context: often figurative) To earn; to get; to accumulate or acquire by some effort or due to some fact; to reap. ¹
6. Verb. (rare intransitive) to gather or become gathered; to accumulate or become accumulated; to become stored. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Garner
1. to gather and store [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Garner
Literary usage of Garner
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1906)
"garner et al. (Supreme Court of South Carolina. Oct 10, 1905.) EQUITY—DISMISSAL
OF BILL—INSUFFICIENCY OF EVIDENCE. A motion to dismiss a bill on the ground ..."
2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery During by Thomas Jodrell Phillips, Great Britain Court of Chancery, John Singleton Copley Lyndhurst, Charles Christopher Pepys Cottenham (1849)
"ARNOLD n, garner. was a suit by several persons who were in A broker, partnership
as brokers at Liverpool, against the a widow and executrix of one Joseph ..."
3. A List of the Lancashire Wills Proved Within the Archdeaconry of Richmond by Henry Fishwick (1884)
"1668 garner, Alice, of Torver, F garner, Ann, of Poulton, ... Admon 1669 garner,
Eliza, of parish of Aldingham, F ............ 1670 garner ..."
4. Penal Law and the Code of Criminal Procedure of the State of New York by New York (State)., John Tracy Fitzpatrick (1918)
"The grand jury of the county of Nassau, by this indictment, accuse George garner,
late of the town of Hempstead. in the county of Nassau, and State of New ..."
5. The Canada Law Journal: A Magazine of Jurisprudence (1868)
"EX PARTE garner. The decision given in this case by Mr. Justice Drummond on the
15th of July, is deserving of some attention. ..."
6. Annotated Cases, American and English by H Noyes Greene, William Mark McKinney, David Shephard Garland (1918)
"If that contract is valid and binding upon the infant Mack garner, the injunction
was ... Recognizing that fact, the plaintiff contends that as TF garner, ..."
7. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1906)
"garner et al. (Supreme Court of South Carolina. Oct 10, 1905.) EQUITY—DISMISSAL
OF BILL—INSUFFICIENCY OF EVIDENCE. A motion to dismiss a bill on the ground ..."
8. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery During by Thomas Jodrell Phillips, Great Britain Court of Chancery, John Singleton Copley Lyndhurst, Charles Christopher Pepys Cottenham (1849)
"ARNOLD n, garner. was a suit by several persons who were in A broker, partnership
as brokers at Liverpool, against the a widow and executrix of one Joseph ..."
9. Penal Law and the Code of Criminal Procedure of the State of New York by New York (State)., John Tracy Fitzpatrick (1918)
"The grand jury of the county of Nassau, by this indictment, accuse George garner,
late of the town of Hempstead. in the county of Nassau, and State of New ..."
10. Annotated Cases, American and English by H Noyes Greene, William Mark McKinney, David Shephard Garland (1918)
"If that contract is valid and binding upon the infant Mack garner, the injunction
was ... Recognizing that fact, the plaintiff contends that as TF garner, ..."
11. History of Oakland County Michigan: A Narrative Account of Its Historic by Thaddeus D Seeley (1912)
"Mr. Dunlap garner is the superintendent of the Methodist Episcopal ... The poetic
gifts of both Mrs. Isa garner and her husband were graciously used in ..."
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