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garage

//ˈɡæ.ɹɪdʒ//

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

Note for garage

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Forms

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural
garages

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)
garage
past (v2)
garaged
past participle (v3)
garaged
present participle
garaging
3rd person singular
garages

Definitions

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

  1. 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. 2.A petrol filling station.

    • Tom found an old safe in his garage.
    • The garage is on the side of the house.
  3. 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. 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.

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

  1. 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”)

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