garage
noun
- room or building for automobiles
- automobile repair shop
verb
- store an automobile
- to put or keep in a garage
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈɡæ.ɹɪdʒ/ / /ˈɡæ.ɹɑːʒ/ / /ˈɡæ.ɹɑːdʒ/
noun
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”).
- A building (or section of a building) used to store a car or cars, tools and other miscellaneous items.
“A little further on, to the right, was a large garage, where the charabancs stood, half in and half out of the yard.”
- A place where cars are serviced and repaired.
“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.”
- A petrol filling station.
- A shed for housing an airship or aeroplane or a launchable missile; a hangar.
- A side way or space in a canal to enable vessels to pass each other; a siding.
- A type of guitar rock music, personified by amateur bands playing in the basement or garage; garage rock.
- A type of electronic dance music related to house music, with warped and time-stretched sounds; UK garage.
verb
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”).
- To store in a garage.
“We garaged the convertible during the monsoon months.”
“Meanwhile the chauffeur who had driven them there—a subordinate member of the band—had garaged his car and was loitering about the drive in the expectation of further instructions.”