Garage

Quick meaning: Garage is a noun meaning A building (or section of a building) used to store a car or cars, tools and other miscellaneous items.

Meaning

A building (or section of a building) used to store a car or cars, tools and other miscellaneous items.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

We garaged the convertible during the monsoon months.

In large cities cars are nuisances unless you have enough money to afford to garage the beasts.

A little further on, to the right, was a large garage, where the charabancs stood, half in and half out of the yard.

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.

Word Forms

• garages
• garaging
• garaged

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include parkade, carpark, parking, driveway, dealership, auto.

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