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."
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“I think they were so embarrassed,” said Zack Iqbal, 55, who runs a garage near the project.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Cardiff Magistrates' Court heard the altercation came to light days later, after a video was published on Wales Online, filmed by a witness at a Texaco garage in the Pentwyn area of Cardiff.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
The property also offers a four-car garage, while a large motor court provides even more room for vehicles and guests arriving at the estate.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026
"Five years ago, an idea was born to hold a garage sale of sorts, and to let people just come in and purchase these items" in person, he said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026
A puddle by the garage gives me another idea.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
Istanbul municipal teams and firefighters were carrying out cleanup operations at schools, football pitches, garages and other sites on Thursday, pumping water out of flooded areas and clearing mud, an AFP photographer reported.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
Officials estimated up to 200 cars — many of them parked in subterranean garages — were damaged as a result.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
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
Cletus’s house was tiny and brown, not much bigger than some people’s garages.
From "Missing May" by Cynthia Rylant
“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
Lenovo Yoga 9i $850 $1,320 36% off The Lenovo Yoga 9i is a portable, convertible laptop with standout audio and a garaged stylus.
From The Verge ● Jul. 22, 2022
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 drove home to Hampstead in the blue Runaway, with its silver fittings winking in the sun, and garaged it near by.
From Married Life The True Romance by May Edginton
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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