Garret Definition

gărĭt
garrets
noun
garrets
The space, room, or rooms just below the roof of a house, esp. a sloping roof; attic.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Garret

Noun

Singular:
garret
Plural:
garrets

Origin of Garret

  • Middle English from Old French garite watchtower from garir to defend of Germanic origin wer-4 in Indo-European roots

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

  • Middle English, from Old French garite ("watchtower"). Compare guerite, of same origin.

    From Wiktionary

Garret Sentence Examples

  • He should have gone up garret at once.

  • Garret Dorset Wall (Declined) .

  • He left Rouen, went up to Paris, where he found refuge in the same garret which had sheltered him when a boy at the College Louis le Grand, and there wrote his second poem, La Chartreuse.

  • I have thus a tight shingled and plastered house, ten feet wide by fifteen long, and eight-feet posts, with a garret and a closet, a large window on each side, two trap doors, one door at the end, and a brick fireplace opposite.

  • He had at least one sister, from whom descended the only existing representatives of Burke's family; and he had at least two brothers, Garret Burke and Richard Burke, the one older and the other younger than Edmund.

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Words Starting With

GGAGAR

Words Ending With

TETRET

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garret

Words Starting With G and Ending With T

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Word Length

6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With G6 Letter Words Ending With T