garner

1. 1.

   a storehouse for threshed grain or animal feed

   Synonymsgranary

   Broaderstorehouse

   Narrowercrib

Other forms of garner

plural

garners·

past tense

garnerred·

present participle

garnerring·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about garner

What does garner mean?

garner means "acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in garner?

garner has 2 syllables: gar-ner. The stress falls on "gar". In IPA it is /ˈɡɑɹnɚ/.

What is another word for garner?

Close synonyms include earn, win, gather, collect, pull together. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is garner a common word?

garner is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.