grainger

1. 1.

   United States composer (born in Australia) who lived in London and collected English folk songs (1882-1961)

   SynonymsPercy GraingerPercy Aldridge GraingerGeorge Percy Aldridge Grainger

   Broadercomposer

Other forms of grainger

plural

graingers·

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 grainger

What does grainger mean?

grainger means "United States composer (born in Australia) who lived in London and collected English folk songs (1882-1961)".

How many syllables are in grainger?

grainger has 2 syllables: grain-ger. The stress falls on "grain". In IPA it is /ˈɡɹeɪŋdʒɚ/.

What is another word for grainger?

Close synonyms include Percy Grainger, Percy Aldridge Grainger, George Percy Aldridge Grainger. 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 grainger a common word?

grainger is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.