garage
Americannoun
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garages
plural
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a building or indoor area for parking or storing motor vehicles.
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a commercial establishment for repairing and servicing motor vehicles.
verb (used with object)
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garages,
present (3rd person singular)
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garaged,
past participle, past
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garaging
present participle
noun
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a building or part of a building used to house a motor vehicle
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a commercial establishment in which motor vehicles are repaired, serviced, bought, and sold, and which usually also sells motor fuels
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a rough-and-ready style of rock music
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a type of disco music based on soul
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verb
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Nouns
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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garagesimple
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garagessimple
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have garagedperfect
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has garagedperfect
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am garagingprogressive
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are garagingprogressive
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is garagingprogressive
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have been garagingperfect progressive
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has been garagingperfect progressive
Past
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garagedsimple
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had garagedperfect
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was garagingprogressive
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were garagingprogressive
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had been garagingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of garage
1900–05; < French, equivalent to gar ( er ) to shelter (< Germanic *warôn to take notice of; see ware 2) + -age -age
Explanation
A garage is a building that's meant for keeping cars or other vehicles in. Some houses have attached garages with automated doors. You might have your own garage, or you might pay to park your car in a large public garage down the street. The two buildings are very different — one large enough for one or two cars, and the other possibly accommodating hundreds — but they're both garages. You can also use the word garage for a car repair shop: "I have to take my car to the garage because it's making a weird noise."
Vocabulary lists containing garage
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There’s also an attached walk-in pantry, with a powder room, laundry facilities, an office area, a screened porch, and a sizable garage nearby.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
Like so many startup origin stories, this one begins in a garage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
They knocked on the door of the Anaheim residence Thursday morning and found Nguyen inside and the vehicle parked in the garage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Ian Govier manages the Littlewick Green Motor Company garage in Maidenhead, and said his costs had "gone up dramatically over the years".
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Patience rolled up the big garage door, and Natalie saw even more people outside than there had been before.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
F1 picks up the paddock—the behind-the-scenes village of garages and other infrastructure—and plops it in Singapore without changing the clocks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Larger homes, attics, basements, garages and spare bedrooms reduce the urgency to make choices.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
Firefighters attended multiples fires in Stoke-on-Trent after fences, gardens and garages were alight.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Specialized car carriers, essentially floating parking garages, are booked out years ahead to export cars from Chinese factories.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
‘I’ve worked as a weaver and loom-fixer. I’ve worked in garages and an automobile assembly shop. All sorts of different things.’
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
“Within the last six weeks, I’ve shipped to the Diamondbacks, the Rangers and the Blue Jays,” the mud man, Jim Bintliff, said recently, as he lingered protectively beside his garaged barrel of goop.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 31, 2022
Laptop, Chromebook, and tablet deals Lenovo Yoga 9i $1,250 $1,750 29% off The Lenovo Yoga 9i is a portable, convertible laptop with standout audio and a garaged stylus.
From The Verge ● Dec. 29, 2021
He kept the December appointment to go back for his car registration and is keeping his car, with its Virginia tags, garaged.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 14, 2020
Tucson Police have garaged two 10-ton carriers that they got from the Pentagon in 1996.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 28, 2014
He garaged the car, and escorting Esther upstairs, parted from her at the end of the short passage leading to her room.
From Juggernaut by Alice Campbell
A few doors down, property mogul Leonard Blavatnik had bought up three former Russian Embassy buildings and since added an underground swimming pool, gym, private cinema and extensive garaging.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 9, 2012
Rents are astronomical, and in New York, garaging a car can cost as much as $95 a month, without service.
From Time Magazine Archive
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