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garage

Pronunciation: /ˈɡæ.ɹɪdʒ/

The English word “garage” has 8 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A building (or section of a building) used to store a car or cars, tools and other miscellaneous items.
  2. A place where cars are serviced and repaired.
  3. A petrol filling station.
  4. A shed for housing an airship or aeroplane or a launchable missile; a hangar.
  5. A side way or space in a canal to enable vessels to pass each other; a siding.
  6. A type of guitar rock music, personified by amateur bands playing in the basement or garage; garage rock.
  7. A type of electronic dance music related to house music, with warped and time-stretched sounds; UK garage.

verb

  1. To store in a garage.

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…

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