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Garage Definition

garage

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Contents

English

Wikipedia has articles on: Garage

Etymology

From French garage, from garer (“to shelter”).

Pronunciation

Noun

Wikipedia has articles on: Garage (dance music) and Garage (house)

Wikipedia Wikipedia garage (plural garages)

  1. A building (or section of a building) used to store a car, tools and other miscellaneous items.
  2. (chiefly UK and Canada) A place where cars are serviced and repaired.
  3. (chiefly UK and Canada) A petrol filling station,
  4. (dated, 20th century, North America) An independent automobile repair shop.
  5. (attributive) A type of guitar rock music, personified by amateur bands playing in the basement or garage.
  6. (UK) A type of electronic dance music.

Usage notes

Historically a commercial garage would offer storage, refueling, servicing, and repair of vehicles. Since the mid-late 20th Century, storage has become uncommon at premises having the other functions. Now refueling, servicing, and repair are becoming increasingly separated from each other. Few repair garages still sell petrol; it is very uncommon for a new filling station to have a mechanic or any facilities for servicing beyond inflating tires; and a new kind of business exists to provide servicing: the oil/lube change shop.

Synonyms

Derived terms

terms derived from garage (noun)

Verb

garage (third-person singular simple present garages, present participle garaging, simple past and past participle garaged)

  1. To store in a garage.
    We garaged the convertible during the monsoon months.
    • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XIX:
      I garaged the car and went to Aunt Dahlia's sanctum to ascertain whether she had cooled off at all since I had left her, for I was still anxious about that blood pressure of hers.

Translations

to store in a garage

French

Etymology

garer + -age

Pronunciation

Noun

garage m. (plural garages)

  1. garage

Anagrams

Italian

Noun

garage m. inv.

  1. garage (domestic storage for a car; motor repair facility)

Synonyms

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

garage n.

  1. garage; a building (or section of a building) used to store a car

Declension

Declension of garage
singular plural
Neuter indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative garage garaget garage garagen
genitive garages garagets garages garagens

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