Garage Definition

gə-räzh, -räj

garaged, garages, garaging

noun

garages

A closed shelter for a motor vehicle or vehicles.

Webster's New World

A business establishment where motor vehicles are stored, repaired, serviced, etc.

Webster's New World

(chiefly UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) A petrol filling station.

Wiktionary

(dated, 20th century, North America) An independent automobile repair shop.

Wiktionary

A type of guitar rock music, personified by amateur bands playing in the basement or garage.

Wiktionary

Synonyms:

Synonyms:
service department
service garage; chop shop
service-station
repair shop
self-parking
parking-lot
parking-space
parking
carport
parking-garage

verb

garaged, garages, garaging

To put or keep in a garage.

Webster's New World

adjective

Designating or of a kind of loud, fast rock music originating in the U.S. in the 1960s, characterized by crude instrumental and vocal techniques associated with young, amateur musicians.

Webster's New World

Designating or of a band that plays such music.

Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Garage

Noun

Singular:

garage

Plural:

garages

Origin of Garage

Borrowing 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”).

From Wiktionary
French from garer to shelter from Old French garer, guerrer of Germanic origin wer-⁴ in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition