garage

[guh-rahzh, -rahj, gar-ij, -ahzh]

noun

1. a building or indoor area for parking or storing motor vehicles.

2. a commercial establishment for repairing and servicing motor vehicles.

verb (used with object)

garaged, garaging 

1. to put or keep in a garage.

garage

/ ˈɡærɑːʒ, -rɪdʒ /

noun

1. a building or part of a building used to house a motor vehicle

2. a commercial establishment in which motor vehicles are repaired, serviced, bought, and sold, and which usually also sells motor fuels

3. 1. a rough-and-ready style of rock music

   2. a type of disco music based on soul

verb

1. (tr) to put into, keep in, or take to a garage

Other Word Forms

• garageable adjective
• ungaraged adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of garage¹

1900–05; < French, equivalent to gar ( er ) to shelter (< Germanic *warôn to take notice of; ware ² ) + -age -age

Word History and Origins

Origin of garage¹

C20: from French, from garer to dock (a ship), from Old French: to protect, from Old High German warōn; see _beware

Example Sentences

Rindernecht told officers the weapon was stored in a safe, but agents subsequently found a gun inside a stuffed animal in the garage.

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If I don’t like the price of the garage, I’ll go to a different one.

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When she loses her cycle, she is forced to run up the helix of a parking garage at normal human speed, giving a pathetic comedic element to someone who ought to be terrifying.

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Some of the garages forced to shut last week, paralysing the city, have now reopened after more 300 petrol tankers arrived under army escort from Ivory Coast on Tuesday.

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Rawles began offering strength classes in gyms, offices, online and in her garage.

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Related Words

• barn 
• parking lot 
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• shop