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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Then John’s father gets home, takes him outside to the family’s garage and shows us, most shockingly, that fearlessness is not inborn.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
The compound comes with a three-car garage, two ipe wood decks, several outdoor seating areas, and drought-resistant landscaping that abounds with leafy hedges and mature trees.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
My wife does drive a Subaru Forester, which is a gas car—but we rarely take it out of the garage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
After changing course, he stored it in his garage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
The garage in which Charlie now slept was Jamie’s, too.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
Cherisse Dealtry, CEO of the York Road Project in Surrey, said sleeping in cars, staying with friends or living in garages and other forms of hidden homelessness had been around "for a very long time".
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
There is also a theater room, multiple bars, two garages, and a motor court that accommodates 20 cars.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
About a third of them appear to be unofficial, in buildings ranging from a tax office to hotels and garages.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
Many apartment buildings have a flimsy first floor, propped up by skinny supports to accommodate carports, garages or storefronts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
The so-called cootie garages, which Anne and Ernestine now detested, had been the style several years before, and still were worn by girls who hadn’t bobbed their hair.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
“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
This hardware, paired with a 4K touchscreen display and a garaged stylus, makes the 9i a great choice for creators.
From The Verge ● Nov. 2, 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
The yellow 1955 Corvette that the governor drove to the ribbon-cutting is safely garaged.
From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2017
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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