garage

Meaning

Noun

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

Verb

To store in a garage.

Synonyms

repair shop

filling station

petrol station

gas station

shed

carport

service station

parking garage

car shed

repair workshop

service department

fueling station

petrol filling station

fuelling station

gas bar

petrol garage

motor station

gas station

auto repair shop

petrol station

barn

car park

park

🏞️

parking

🅿️

service area

stable

station

🚉

workshop

coach house

gasoline station

parking structure

Translations

garage

garaje

Garage

garage

garagem

γκαράζ

garage

garatge

autorimessa

Tankstelle

officina

zijspoor

station-service

Autowerkstatt

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɡæ.ɹɑː(d)ʒ/

Etymology

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”).

Sentences

May I escort you to the garage ?

The candles brightened the dark room near to the garage .