garage
//ˈɡæ.ɹɪdʒ//
Forms
- Plural
- garages
- present (v1)
- garage
- past (v2)
- garaged
- past participle (v3)
- garaged
- present participle
- garaging
- 3rd person singular
- garages
Definitions
1.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.
2.A petrol filling station.
- Tom found an old safe in his garage.
- The garage is on the side of the house.
3.A shed for housing an airship or aeroplane or a launchable missile; a hangar.
- Tom found an old safe in his garage.
- The garage is on the side of the house.
4.A side way or space in a canal to enable vessels to pass each other; a siding.
- Tom found an old safe in his garage.
- The garage is on the side of the house.
1.To store in a garage.
- We garaged the convertible during the monsoon months.
- In large cities cars are nuisances unless you have enough money to afford to garage the beasts.
- 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.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3389
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
Borrowed from French garage (“keeping under cover, protection, shelter”), derivative of French garer (“to keep under cover, dock, shunt, guard, keep”)