What does "garage" mean?
A building (or section of a building) used to store a car or cars, tools and other miscellaneous items.
Garage
/ˈɡæ.ɹɪdʒ/ noun, verb
noun, verb ·Moderate ·College level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A building (or section of a building) used to store a car or cars, tools and other miscellaneous items.
- Grammar: garage is listed as noun, verb.
- Nearest alternatives: auto repair shop, band, car storage, carport.
- Useful contrasts: carports, expose, open yard.
- Usage evidence: The Longs are having a garage sale tomorrow.
How to use "garage"
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A building (or section of a building) used to store a car or cars, tools and other miscellaneous items. countable, uncountable
"A little further on, to the right, was a large garage, where the charabancs stood, half in and half out of the yard."
- 2 an outbuilding (or part of a building) for housing automobiles wordnet
- 3 A place where cars are serviced and repaired. Commonwealth, countable, dated, uncountable
"The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures."
- 4 a repair shop where cars and trucks are serviced and repaired wordnet
- 5 A petrol filling station. Commonwealth, countable, uncountable
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- 6 A shed for housing an airship or aeroplane or a launchable missile; a hangar. countable, uncountable
- 7 A side way or space in a canal to enable vessels to pass each other; a siding. countable, uncountable
- 8 A type of guitar rock music, personified by amateur bands playing in the basement or garage; garage rock. attributive, countable, uncountable
- 9 A type of electronic dance music related to house music, with warped and time-stretched sounds; UK garage. British, countable, uncountable
Verb
- 1 To store in a garage.
"We garaged the convertible during the monsoon months."
- 2 keep or store in a garage wordnet
Synonyms
All synonymsExample
"The Longs are having a garage sale tomorrow."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "garage"?
Common synonyms include: auto repair shop, band, car storage, carport, combo, hangars.
How do you use "garage" in a sentence?
The Longs are having a garage sale tomorrow.
How do you pronounce "garage"?
Pronounced /ˈɡæ.ɹɪdʒ/.
Etymology
Borrowed from French garage (“keeping under cover, protection, shelter”), derivative of French garer (“to keep under cover, dock, shunt, guard, keep”), from Middle French garer, garrer, guerrer; partly from Old French garir, warir (from Old Frankish *warjan); and partly from Old French varer (“to fight, defend oneself, protect”), from Old Norse varask (“to defend oneself”), reflexive of vara (“to ware, watch out, defend”); both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *warjaną (“to defend, ward off”), *warōną (“to watch, protect”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to close, cover, protect, save, defend”).