Garret

//ˈɡæɹɪt// name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house.

    "This morning (we living lately in the garret,) I rose, put on my suit with great skirts, having not lately worn any other clothes but them."

  2. 2
    floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A male given name.

Synonyms

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atticattichayloftloftloftstoreroom

Example

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"I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English garett, garite, from Old French garite, guerite (“watchtower”), from garir, guarir (“to defend, protect”) (compare English garrison), ultimately of Germanic origin (see English garage). Doublet of guerite.

Etymology 2

Variant of Garrett.

Related phrases

garret windowgarret-masterlike a cat in a strange garret

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