garage
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed 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”).
Pronunciation
edit- (UK, General Australian, New Zealand, General South African, India) IPA(key): /ˈɡæ.ɹɑː(d)ʒ/[1][2]
- (UK, New Zealand, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈɡæ.ɹɪdʒ/[1][2]
- (US, Canada, General Australian) IPA(key): /ɡ(ə)ˈɹɑ(d)ʒ/[3]
Audio (US): (file) Audio (General Australian): (file)
- (Canada, Ottawa Valley) IPA(key): /ɡ(ə)ɹæ(d)ʒ/
- Hyphenation: ga‧rage
Noun
editgarage (countable and uncountable, plural garages)
- A building (or section of a building) used to store a car or cars, tools and other miscellaneous items.
- 1931, Francis Beeding, “2/2”, in Death Walks in Eastrepps[1]:
- A little further on, to the right, was a large garage, where the charabancs stood, half in and half out of the yard.
- (chiefly Commonwealth, dated, in US) A place where cars are serviced and repaired.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 7, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
- The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.
- (chiefly Commonwealth) A petrol filling station.
- Synonyms: (Britain, Ireland, Australia) petrol station; (North America) filling station, gas station, service station
- (aviation) 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.
- (attributive, music) A type of guitar rock music, personified by amateur bands playing in the basement or garage; garage rock.
- (British, music) A type of electronic dance music related to house music, with warped and time-stretched sounds; UK garage.
Usage notes
edit- Historically, a commercial garage would offer storage, refueling, servicing, and repair of vehicles. Since the mid-late 20th century, storage has become uncommon at premises having the other functions. Now, refueling, servicing, and repair are becoming increasingly separated from each other. Few repair garages still sell petrol; it is very uncommon for a new filling station to have a mechanic or any facilities for servicing beyond inflating tires; and a new kind of business exists to provide servicing: the oil/lube change shop.
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Verb
editgarage (third-person singular simple present garages, present participle garaging, simple past and past participle garaged)
- To store in a garage.
- We garaged the convertible during the monsoon months.
- 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XIX, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
- I garaged the car and went to Aunt Dahlia's sanctum to ascertain whether she had cooled off at all since I had left her, for I was still anxious about that blood pressure of hers.
- 1979 April 28, Nancy Walker, “A Case of Mistaken Identity”, in Gay Community News, page 19:
- In large cities cars are nuisances unless you have enough money to afford to garage the beasts.
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References
edit- ↑ 1.0 1.1 the Oxford Advanced Learnerˈs Dictionary
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 MacMillanˈs British dictionary
- ^ “garage”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
Danish
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editgarage c (singular definite garagen, plural indefinite garager)
- garage (building (or section of a building) used to store a car, tools and other miscellaneous items.)
Dutch
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editgarage m (plural garages)
- A garage (repair shop for motorised vehicles).
- A garage (building or room for storing and modifying motorised vehicles).
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editFrench
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editFrom garer + -age. Analogue to gare + -age.
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editgarage m (plural garages)
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edit- → Arabic: كَراج (karāj)
- → Bulgarian: гара́ж (garáž)
- → Catalan: garatge
- → Czech: garáž
- → Danish: garage
- → Dutch: garage
- → English: garage
- → German: Garage
- → Hungarian: garázs
- → Greek: γκαράζ (gkaráz)
- → Hijazi Arabic: قراج (garāj)
- → Italian: garage
- → Latvian: garāža
- → Lithuanian: garažas
- → Norman: garage
- → Norwegian: garasje
- → Persian: گاراژ
- → Polish: garaż
- → Portuguese: garagem
- → Romanian: garaj
- → Russian: гара́ж (garáž)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → Spanish: garaje
- → Slovak: garáž
- → Swedish: garage
- → Turkish: garaj
- → Laz: გარაჟი (garaji)
- → Ukrainian: гара́ж (haráž)
- → Vietnamese: ga ra
Further reading
edit- “garage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
editItalian
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editUnadapted borrowing from French garage.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editgarage m (invariable)
- garage (domestic storage for a car)
- garage (motor repair facility)
- Synonym: autorimessa
Derived terms
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edit- ^ garage in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Further reading
edit- garage in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Norman
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editgarage m (plural garages)
Derived terms
edit- garagiste (“garage-keeper”)
Spanish
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editgarage m (uncountable)
- garage (music genre)
Swedish
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editgarage n
Declension
editDeclension of garage | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | garage | garaget | garage | garagen |
Genitive | garages | garagets | garages | garagens |
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