It's the Word of the Day podcast for January 24th.
Today's word is Garner, spelled G-A-R-N-E-R.
Garner is a verb.
To Garner means to acquire by effort or earn, or to accumulate or collect.
Here's the word used in a sentence from The Independent.
The novel was already a favorite among literary critics,
but it's sure to garner wider, more mainstream appeal following the Booker Prize win.
What do you call a building in which grain is stored?
These days, English speakers are most likely to call it a grainery,
but there was a time when Garner was also a good candidate.
That noun made its way into the language in the 12th century,
ultimately from the Latin granum, meaning grain.
The verb garner followed three centuries later with a closely related meaning,
to gather into a granary.
Today, the verb has largely abandoned its agrarian roots.
It usually means to earn or to accumulate.
Meanwhile, the noun garner is rare in contemporary use.
It's found mostly in older literary contexts,
such as these lines from Sir Walter Scott's The Bride of Lammermoor,
or from the Garner Door on Aetherbourne, The Chaff Flies Devious from The Winnowed Corn.