garage
Plural: garages
Noun
- an outbuilding (or part of a building) for housing automobiles
- a repair shop where cars and trucks are serviced and repaired
- A building (or section of a building) used to store a car or cars, tools and other miscellaneous items.
- A place where cars are serviced and repaired.
- A petrol filling station.
- A shed for housing an airship or aeroplane or a launchable missile; a hangar.
- A side way or space in a canal to enable vessels to pass each other; a siding.
- A type of guitar rock music, personified by amateur bands playing in the basement or garage; garage rock.
- A type of electronic dance music related to house music, with warped and time-stretched sounds; UK garage.
Verb
Verb Forms: garaged, garaging, garages
- To park a vehicle, typically a car, in a garage.
- keep or store in a garage
- "we don't garage our car"
- To store in a garage.
Examples
- He tried to GARAGE his strategy, keeping his best words hidden for a later turn.
- We garaged the convertible during the monsoon months.
Origin / 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”).
Synonyms
service department, ;, auto shop, car workshop, filling station, gas station, petrol station, service station, vehicle workshop
Scrabble Score: 8
garage: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordgarage: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
garage: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary