garage

American  

[guh-rahzh, -rahj, gar-ij, -ahzh] / gəˈrɑʒ, -ˈrɑdʒ, ˈgær ɪdʒ, -ɑʒ /

noun

1. a building or indoor area for parking or storing motor vehicles.

2. a commercial establishment for repairing and servicing motor vehicles.

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verb (used with object)

garaged, garaging

1. to put or keep in a garage.

garage British  

/ ˈɡærɑːʒ, -rɪdʒ /

noun

1. a building or part of a building used to house a motor vehicle

2. a commercial establishment in which motor vehicles are repaired, serviced, bought, and sold, and which usually also sells motor fuels

3. 1. a rough-and-ready style of rock music

   2. a type of disco music based on soul

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verb

1. (tr) to put into, keep in, or take to a garage

Other Word Forms

• garageable adjective
• ungaraged adjective

Etymology

Origin of garage

1900–05; < French, equivalent to gar ( er ) to shelter (< Germanic *warôn to take notice of; ware ² ) + -age -age

Example Sentences

One inside an elevator vestibule and another in a parking garage.

From Los Angeles Times

There’s a spaceship in my garage, and I own a multipurpose ray gun disguised as a laser pointer.

From Literature

From its humble beginnings when the founders worked out of Jobs’ family garage, Apple has ballooned over the last five decades, opening a sprawling ring-shaped headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., and employing roughly 166,000 workers.

From Los Angeles Times

Among the features of her newly designed dwelling were a 12-car garage, a guesthouse, a sport court, and a security office, as well as an enormous swimming pool.

From MarketWatch

“It’s like, Really? You bunch of cowboys in the garage in California think you can do what government programs at billions of dollars and decades have not yet achieved. Who do you think you are?”

From The Wall Street Journal

Related Words

• barn
• parking lot
• parking space
• repair shop
• shop