garage

Meaning

1. A building (or section of a building) used to store a car or cars, tools and other miscellaneous items.
2. A place where cars are serviced and repaired.
3. A petrol filling station.
4. A shed for housing an airship or aeroplane or a launchable missile; a hangar.
5. A side way or space in a canal to enable vessels to pass each other; a siding.
6. A type of guitar rock music, personified by amateur bands playing in the basement or garage; garage rock.
7. A type of electronic dance music related to house music, with warped and time-stretched sounds; UK garage.

repair shop

filling station

car shed

repair workshop

service department

fueling station

petrol filling station

auto repair shop

coach house

parking structure

Frequency

Hyphenated as

ga‧rage

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɡæ.ɹɑː(d)ʒ/

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”).

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