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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He helped save a cat that got stuck inside the wall of a garage, requiring firefighters to cut holes in the wall to reach in and grab it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
Or Root, who had to rummage around his garage to dig out his old captain's blazer.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
Yacouba Sylla has been forced to move his informal garage several times because of demolition operations in Abidjan but has always found another place to resume his business.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
“It’s the hardest battle you can fight in Munich,” said Steffen Marx, who has dreamed of selling his Giesinger Bräu at Oktoberfest since founding the brewery in a garage in 2006.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
I flick the light switch off, lead them to the open garage door, and pause.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Underground parking garages are scant in London’s gilded precincts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
The number of incidents has risen year-on-year and nearly half the fires started in homes or garages, the data shows.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
There is also a theater room, multiple bars, two garages, and a motor court that accommodates 20 cars.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
Some West Hollywood residents remained displaced Sunday from apartments where underground garages were flooded by Thursday’s water main rupture.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026
Jaja looked at me, then away, toward the line of garages in the front yard.
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“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
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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