Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A building or indoor space in which to park or keep a motor vehicle.
- noun A commercial establishment where cars are repaired, serviced, or parked.
- transitive verb To put or store in a garage.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A station in which motor-cars can be sheltered, stored, repaired, cleaned, and made ready for use; also, a place of private storage for a motor-car; a stable for motor-cars.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb colloq. To keep in a garage.
- noun an enclosed structure for housing or parking motor vehicles, especially automobiles.
- noun (Aëronautics) A shed for housing an airship or flying machine; a hangar.
- noun A side way or space in a canal to enable vessels to pass each other; a siding.
- noun a commercial establishment that repairs or services automobiles.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
building (or section of a building) used to store acar or cars,tools and othermiscellaneous items. - noun chiefly UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand A place where cars are
serviced andrepaired . - noun chiefly UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand A
petrol filling station . - noun dated, 20th century, North America An independent automobile repair shop.
- noun attributive A type of guitar
rock music, personified by amateur bands playing in the basement or garage. - noun UK A type of
electronic dance music . - verb To store in a garage.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb keep or store in a garage
- noun a repair shop where cars and trucks are serviced and repaired
- noun an outbuilding (or part of a building) for housing automobiles
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The term "garage rock" conjures images of loud, forceful music, often with heavy distortion, thudding kick drums and hollered vocals.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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So my faithful 1988 Pontiac 6000 LE station wagon in the garage is an orphan.
Orphan 2009
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Now, when a garage is off a back alley, the owner drives into the alley, sometimes blocks the alley because their garage is a storage unit, then enters the house by the back door, never even seeing a neighbor.
An apartment bunker in your neighborhood? If it's "delightful." (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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My big problem with it was what to call it because you can also buy them in the U.K. in what we call garage forecourts--where you go to a gas station and fill up is called a forecourt in the U.K.--and you can buy these roses there as well.
Mike Ragogna: The Old Magic: A Conversation with Nick Lowe, Plus Sharif's "I Don't Miss You" Premiere Mike Ragogna 2011
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My big problem with it was what to call it because you can also buy them in the U.K. in what we call garage forecourts--where you go to a gas station and fill up is called a forecourt in the U.K.--and you can buy these roses there as well.
Mike Ragogna: The Old Magic: A Conversation with Nick Lowe, Plus Sharif's "I Don't Miss You" Premiere Mike Ragogna 2011
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Also, out in a box in the garage is a brass and stainless HO “Burlington Zephyr.”
Only Rep. Frank could go kill health care rationing… - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2010
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Apparently spending the night in the garage is a pretty common occurrence.
GarageLand 2008
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SANCHEZ: Well, no, I'm trying to understand why a coach would take a player who has just come back from a concussion and put him in what you describe as a garage away from the rest of the players, for what purpose?
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In his garage is a poster he made years ago at Harvard.
USATODAY.com - Can Super Bowl heal a family's final wound? 2006
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On a beautiful day like today the only reason worthwhile to take the car out of the garage is a drive to Bellevue's Farm Stand.
Pike Place Market again and a trip to Mercer Slough Farm Stand 2004
pterodactyl commented on the word garage
See this map for American pronunciation.
April 11, 2008
bristolcopywriter commented on the word garage
British pronunciation is more like 'GARRidge' … similar to another word via French, 'baggage'
February 19, 2010