garage
Americannoun
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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)
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
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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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“A glass-and-timber gym, barrel sauna, outdoor soaking tub, multiple covered terraces, five-car garage, and parking for four additional vehicles complete the property,” reads the listing.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
Another resident reported that, in April, a Waymo was idling for more than five minutes in front of the entrance to a church parking garage during a Sunday service, preventing parishioners from entering and exiting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
To critics who dismiss the project as "garage engineering" or amateurism, Terekh says she is "very proud" of their roots.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
Lauren Wallace, an criminologist with the Los Angeles Police Department, said she found evidence of blood on gym mats and flooring inside the garage at the artist’s Hollywood Hills residence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
That’s why the garage is jam-packed with supplies.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
"There are plots round the back where you've got garages but there's not enough to put all the cars, so obviously they have to stay where they are," he said.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
There is also a theater room, multiple bars, two garages, and a motor court that accommodates 20 cars.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
Most of the damage was centered in underground garages where water had to be pumped out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026
Generation Z may be the first generation not to own cars, thanks to Uber and self-driving vehicles, and will turn their garages into man caves or influencer studios.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
Singers, do not, for example, learn opera in their garages or simply by listening to recordings.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
“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
Tucson Police have garaged two 10-ton carriers that they got from the Pentagon in 1996.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 28, 2014
The limousine driven by the Hindu chauffeur was still in sight, and until Mr. Nicol Brinn had seen it garaged, nothing else mattered, nothing else counted, and nothing else must be permitted to interfere.
From Fire-Tongue by Rohmer, Sax
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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