What does granary mean?
Word: Granary
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Granary means a building where grain is stored after the harvest.
Synonyms: grain store
How do you spell granary?
Syllables: gran - a - ry
Tricky part: The middle vowel is a quiet a, not e or o. Students who rush it write granery or granory.
Watch out for: granery, granory
Memory tip: Grain goes into a granary, and the two words begin with the same three letters, gra.
Granary in a sentence
Example 1: The village granary was full after the monsoon harvest.
Example 2: Farmers carried sacks of paddy to the granary on bullock carts.
Example 3: A cat was kept at the granary to keep the mice away.
Fun Fact
Cities of the Indus Valley, such as Harappa, had large brick buildings that archaeologists long believed were granaries, though some experts now think they had other uses.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Connection
Choose the synonym of the word:
granary
a) storehouse
b) farmhouse
c) greenhouse
d) lighthouse
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a) storehouse. A granary is a storehouse kept just for grain.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
ynragar
a) granary
b) granite
c) angrily
d) grandly
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a) granary. The jumble has two a letters and two r letters; granite, grandly and angrily each have only one a.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the incorrectly spelt word:
a) fertile
b) monsoon
c) cultivate
d) grainary
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d) grainary. Granary has no i, even though it stores grain; monsoon, cultivate and fertile are spelt correctly.
Word Cookie
Find the extra letter in the word:
grannary
a) g
b) n
c) a
d) r
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b) n. Only one n sits between the two a letters.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What would you expect to find inside a granary?
a) cans of fresh milk
b) tractors and ploughs
c) cows and buffaloes
d) sacks of wheat and rice
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d) sacks of wheat and rice
2. Why are many granaries built off the ground?
a) to catch more sunlight
b) to let children climb on them
c) to keep the grain dry and safe
d) to make them look taller
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c) to keep the grain dry and safe
