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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A building or indoor space in which to park or keep a motor vehicle.
  2. n. A commercial establishment where cars are repaired, serviced, or parked.
  3. v. To put or store in a garage.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A station in which motor-cars can be sheltered, stored, repaired, cleaned, and made ready for use; also, a place of private storage for a motor-car; a stable for motor-cars.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A building (or section of a building) used to store a car or cars, tools and other miscellaneous items.
  2. n. chiefly UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand A place where cars are serviced and repaired.
  3. n. chiefly UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand A petrol filling station.
  4. n. dated, 20th century, North America An independent automobile repair shop.
  5. n. attributive A type of guitar rock music, personified by amateur bands playing in the basement or garage.
  6. n. UK A type of electronic dance music.
  7. v. To store in a garage.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. an enclosed structure for housing or parking motor vehicles, especially automobiles.
  2. n. (Aëronautics) A shed for housing an airship or flying machine; a hangar.
  3. n. A side way or space in a canal to enable vessels to pass each other; a siding.
  4. n. a commercial establishment that repairs or services automobiles.
  5. v. colloq. To keep in a garage.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. keep or store in a garage
  2. n. a repair shop where cars and trucks are serviced and repaired
  3. n. an outbuilding (or part of a building) for housing automobiles

Etymologies

  1. Borrowing from French garage. (Wiktionary)
  2. French, from garer, to shelter, from Old French garer, guerrer, of Germanic origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (8)

Words with the same meaning

  1. hangar
  1. siding
  1. America
  1. petrol station
  1. gas station
  1. filling station
  1. qualifier
  1. North

hypernyms (3)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. store
  1. fix-it shop
  1. repair shop

same context (21)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. warehouse
  2. barn
  3. hangar
  4. basement
  1. bedroom
  2. cellar
  3. park
  4. hallway
  1. apartment
  2. shed
  3. lobby
  4. bathroom
  1. restaurant
  2. alley
  3. elevator
  4. closet
  1. building
  2. shop
  3. cavern
  4. tavern
  1. barrack

rhymes (10)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. barrage
  2. collage
  1. corsage
  2. dressage
  1. entourage
  2. massage
  1. mirage
  2. montage
  1. raj
  2. taj

reverse dictionary (25)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. car port
  2. carport
  3. carriage house
  4. garage sale
  5. breezeway
  1. garage
  2. detached
  3. multilevel
  4. driveway
  5. body shop
  1. stand
  2. see
  3. door opener
  4. drip pan
  5. out
  1. key
  2. stall
  3. parts department
  4. service area
  5. back
  1. bowl
  2. clutter
  3. dirty
  4. pit
  5. washstand

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  1. home
  1. domestic
  1. room
  1. cvcvcv
  1. periodic symbol words

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  • bristolcopywriter British pronunciation is more like 'GARRidge' … similar to another word via French, 'baggage' Feb 18, 2010

  • pterodactyl See this map for American pronunciation. Apr 10, 2008

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