What does garner mean?

Definitions for garner
ˈgɑr nər; nænsgar·ner

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word garner.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. granary, garnerverb

    a storehouse for threshed grain or animal feed

  2. earn, garnerverb

    acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions

  3. garnerverb

    store grain

  4. gather, garner, collect, pull togetherverb

    assemble or get together

    "gather some stones"; "pull your thoughts together"

Wiktionary

  1. garnernoun

    A granary; a store of grain.

    That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets (Psalm 144:13, KJV)

  2. garnernoun

    An accumulation, supply, store, or hoard of something.

  3. garnerverb

    To reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary.

  4. garnerverb

    To gather, amass, hoard, as if harvesting grain.

  5. garnerverb

    To earn; to get; to accumulate or acquire by some effort or due to some fact; to reap.

  6. garnerverb

    to gather or become gathered; to accumulate or become accumulated; to become stored.

  7. Etymology: From gerner, from gernier, variant of grenier, from granarium

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. GARNERnoun

    A place in which threshed grain is stored up.

    Etymology: grenier, French.

    Earth’s increase, and foyson plenty,
    Barns and garners never empty. William Shakespeare, Tempest.

    For sundry foes the rural realm surround;
    The fieldmouse builds her garner under ground:
    For gather’d grain the blind laborious mole,
    In winding mazes, works her hidden hole. John Dryden, Vir. Geo.

  2. To Garnerverb

    To store as in garners.

    Etymology: from the noun.

    There, where I have garner’d up my heart,
    Where either I must live, or bear no life. William Shakespeare, Othello.

ChatGPT

  1. garner

    To garner means to gather, accumulate, or acquire something such as information, evidence, support, or resources. It is often used to refer to collecting something gradually over time. Garner can also refer to earning praise or recognition.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Garnernoun

    a granary; a building or place where grain is stored for preservation

  2. Garnerverb

    to gather for preservation; to store, as in a granary; to treasure

  3. Etymology: [OE. garner, gerner, greiner, OF. gernier, grenier, F. grenier, fr. L. granarium, fr. granum. See 1st Grain, and cf. Granary.]

Wikidata

  1. Garner

    Garner is a town in Wake County, North Carolina, United States and a suburb of Raleigh. The population was 25,745 at the 2010 census. The US Office of Management and Budget also includes Garner as a part of the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Combined Statistical Area, which has a population of 1,998,808 as of U.S. Census 2012 Population Estimates. Effective June 6, 2003 the Office of Management and Budget redefined the Federal Statistical Areas and dismantled what had been for decades the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, MSA and split them into two separate MSAs even though the region still functions as a single metropolitan area.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Garner

    gär′nėr, n. a granary or place where grain is stored up: a store of anything—e.g. experience.—v.t. to store as in a garner.—v.i. (rare) to accumulate.—n. Gar′nerage, a storehouse. [O. Fr. gernier (Fr. grenier)—L. granarium, -ia, a granary.]

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. GARNER

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Garner is ranked #442 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Garner surname appeared 74,324 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 25 would have the surname Garner.

    71.7% or 53,298 total occurrences were White.
    22.8% or 16,961 total occurrences were Black.
    2.3% or 1,739 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    2.1% or 1,568 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    0.5% or 401 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    0.4% or 357 total occurrences were Asian.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of garner in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of garner in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of garner in a Sentence

  1. Graham Campbell:

    I don't think he meant to kill Eric Garner, guys say they can't breathe all the time, especially if there's a crowd. It's a tactic.

  2. Stuart London:

    He used a takedown technique he was taught in the academy, he said he never exerted any pressure on the windpipe and never intended to injure Mr. Garner.

  3. Anthony Scaramucci:

    Ted is super smart and touches a nerve in the heartland where people are unhappy with the way things are going, but it will be very difficult for him to garner establishment money.

  4. Jeffrey Klausner:

    People felt that if they called it an STD from the get-go, it was going to create stigma, and because of the stigma of the type of sex that was occurring – oral sex, anal sex, anal sex between same-sex male partners – there may not have been the same kind of federal response, so it was actually a political calculation to garner the resources necessary to have a substantial response to be vague about how it spread.

  5. Scott Stringer:

    We are all familiar with the events that lead to the death of Eric Garner and the extraordinary impact his passing has had on our City and our nation, i believe that we have reached an agreement that acknowledges the tragic nature of Mr. Garner’s death while balancing my office’s fiscal responsibility to the City.

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