garage

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”).

• (UK, General Australian, General New Zealand, General South African, India) IPA^(key): /ˈɡæɹɑː(d)ʒ/[1][2]

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• (UK, General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈɡæɹɪdʒ/[1][2]

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• (US, Canada, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ɡəˈɹɑː(d)ʒ/[3]

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• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ɡ(ə)ɹæ(d)ʒ/
• Rhymes: -æɹɪdʒ

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• Hyphenation: ga‧rage

garage (countable and uncountable, plural garages)

1. A building (or section of a building) used to store a car or cars, tools and other miscellaneous items.
   • 1931, Francis Beeding, “2/2”, in Death Walks in Eastrepps‎:

     A little further on, to the right, was a large garage, where the charabancs stood, half in and half out of the yard.

2. (chiefly Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) A place where cars are serviced and repaired.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 7, in The China Governess‎:

     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.

3. (chiefly Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) A petrol filling station.
4. (dated, 20th century, Canada, US) An independent automobile repair shop.
5. (aviation) A shed for housing an airship or aeroplane; a hangar.
6. A side way or space in a canal to enable vessels to pass each other; a siding.
7. (attributive, music) A type of guitar rock music, personified by amateur bands playing in the basement or garage; garage rock.
8. (Britain, music) A type of electronic dance music related to house music, with warped and time-stretched sounds; UK garage.

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.

• (a petrol filling station): filling station, gas station (North America), petrol station (UK), service station

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[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XIX, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, OCLC 1227855:

     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.

Borrowed from French garage.

garage c (singular definite garagen, plural indefinite garager)

1. garage (building (or section of a building) used to store a car, tools and other miscellaneous items.)

garer +‎ -age

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.ʁaʒ/

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garage m (plural garages)

1. garage

• “garage” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• gagera

Borrowed from French garage.

garage m (invariable)

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

• autorimessa (motor repair facility)

Borrowed from French garage.

garage m (plural garages)

1. (Jersey) garage

• garagiste (“garage-keeper”)

garage m (uncountable)

1. garage (music genre)

Borrowed from French garage.

• IPA^(key): /ɡaˈrɑːɕ/, (south Sweden) /ɡaˈrɑːɧ/

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garage n

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

• garagedörr
• garageplats