GARNER

granary, garner

(noun) a storehouse for threshed grain or animal feed

gather, garner, collect, pull together

(verb) assemble or get together; “gather some stones”; “pull your thoughts together”

garner

(verb) store grain

earn, garner, win

(verb) acquire or deserve by one’s efforts or actions; “its beauty won Paris the name ’City of Lights’”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

garner (plural garners)

A granary; a store of grain.

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

Verb

garner (third-person singular simple present garners, present participle garnering, simple past and past participle garnered) (transitive)

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

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

(often figurative) To earn; to get; to accumulate or acquire by some effort or due to some fact

Synonyms: reap, gain

(rare) To gather or become gathered; to accumulate or become accumulated; to become stored.

Usage notes

The "earn, acquire, accumulate" sense should be read as a figurative extension of the original "harvest, gather" sense, sometimes with some inanimate achievement or choice metaphorically doing the "gathering", as "The new book garnered high praise", or with an indirect object, as, "The new book garnered the author high praise". In this sense, the achievement, choice, or fact is actively gathering something, positive or negative, for its creator, even if that choice is inaction, as in "Failure to try can garner you the disapproval of the industrious".