garage

[guh-rahzh, -rahj or, esp. British, gar-ij, -ahzh] /gəˈrɑʒ, -ˈrɑdʒ or, esp. British, 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.
verb (used with object), garaged, garaging.
3.
to put or keep in a garage.
Origin
1900-05; < French, equivalent to gar(er) to shelter (< Germanic *warôn to take notice of; see ware2) + -age -age
Related forms
garageable, adjective
ungaraged, adjective
Examples from the web for garage
  • Eventually, vehicles might book themselves in for repair and order the necessary spare parts before they arrive at the garage.
  • The space was going to be used for an office building and parking garage.
  • Human-powered vehicles these days might bring to mind recreational contraptions for garage tinkerers or the green-minded set.
  • It's the kind of operation you probably once dreamed of building in your parents' garage.
  • Officers dispatched to a report of a group of unwanted guests in the garage.
  • It is not much-a bank, a couple of fast-food outlets, a petrol station and a garage.
  • With or without a car, green up your garage and transportation choices with our interactive guide.
  • Innovation has always occurred in the garage and not in a government office.
  • The liquid salt battery can be recharged with a small solar panel on top of your car or garage.
  • His reputation depends not on how a vehicle arrives in his garage but on what he does to restore it to working condition.
British Dictionary definitions for garage

garage

/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
verb
4.
(transitive) to put into, keep in, or take to a garage
Word Origin
C20: from French, from garer to dock (a ship), from Old French: to protect, from Old High German warōn; see beware
Word Origin and History for garage
n.

1902, from French garage "shelter for a vehicle," originally "a place for storing something," from verb garer "to shelter," from Middle French garer "to shelter, dock ships," from Frankish *waron "to guard" or some other Germanic source (cf. Old High German waron "take care"), from Proto-Germanic *war-, from PIE root *wer- "to cover" (see warrant (n.)).

Influenced no doubt by the success of the recent Club run, and by the fact that more than 100 of its members are automobile owners, the N.Y.A.C. has decided to build a "garage," the French term for an automobile stable, at Travers Island, that will be of novel design, entirely different from any station in the country. [New York Athletic Club Journal, May 1902]
Garage sale first attested 1966.

v.

1906, from garage (n.). Related: Garaged; garaging.

Slang definitions & phrases for garage

garage

noun

A kind of house music (1980s+)