garage

CEFRA2

/ˈɡæ.ɹɪdʒ/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A building or space where vehicles are kept or repaired.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A petrol filling station.

Examples

  • Can you envisage Tom working in a garage?

  • He parked his new car in the garage to protect it from the rain.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A place where cars are serviced and repaired.

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

  3. A shed for housing an airship or aeroplane or a launchable missile; a hangar.

More examples

In context

  • The Longs are having a garage sale tomorrow.

  • We garaged the convertible during the monsoon months.

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

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

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”).