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Jul 15, 2011 This week's theme Professions that exist mainly as surnames This week's words chandler wainwright collier chamberlain granger This week's comments AWADmail 472 Next week's theme Words of French origin Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg granger PRONUNCIATION: (GRAYN-juhr) MEANING: noun: A farmer. ETYMOLOGY: Via French from Latin granum (grain). Earliest documented use: around 1112. USAGE: "Megan glared. She touched Sena's hair like a granger examining blight." Anthony Huso; The Last Page; Tor Books; 2010. Explore "granger" in the Visual Thesaurus. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Naive you are / if you believe / life favours those / who aren't naive. -Piet Hein, poet and scientist (1905-1996)

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