• (RP) IPA: /ˈɡɑː.nə/
• (America) IPA: /ˈɡɑːɹ.nɚ/

garner (plural garners)

1. A granary; a store of grain.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Psalms 144:13 ↗:

     That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Matthew 3:12 ↗:

     Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

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

• French: grenier
• German: Magazin, Reservoir, Speicher, Vorratsraum
• Italian: granaio
• Portuguese: celeiro
• Russian: амба́р
• Spanish: granero

garner (garners, present participle garnering; past and past participle garnered) (transitive)

1. To reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary.
2. To gather, amass, hoard, as if harvesting grain.
   • 1835, Honoré de Balzac, The Lily of the Valley, Chapter 2

     I walked enormous distances...garnering thoughts even from the heather.

   • 1913, “Anton Berlage” in Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913

     He garnered the fruit of his studies in seven volumes.

   • 1956, Andrew North, Plague Ship, Chapter 14

     ...its fleet went out to garner in the elusive but highly succulent fish.

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

   Synonyms: reap, gain

   He garnered a reputation as a language expert.

   Her new book garnered high praise from the critics.

   His poor choices garnered him a steady stream of welfare checks.

   • 1983, Ronald Reagan, Proclamation 5031

     This country will never forget nor fail to honor those who have so courageously garnered our highest regard.

   • 1999, Bill Clinton, Proclamation 7259

     President Roosevelt garnered the support of our working men and women...

4. (rare) To gather or become gathered; to accumulate or become accumulated; to become stored.
   • 1849, Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H., verse 82

     For this alone on Death I wreak / The wrath that garners in my heart;

• French: engranger
• German: aufspeichern

1. Surname
2. A city/county seat in Hancock County, Iowa.