garage

noun

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

(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.

(aviation) A shed for housing an airship or aeroplane or a launchable missile; a hangar.

(chiefly Commonwealth) A petrol filling station.

A side way or space in a canal to enable vessels to pass each other; a siding.

(chiefly Commonwealth, dated, in US) A place where cars are serviced and repaired.

verb

To store in a garage.

Roots

garergar- · French · to shelter, dock -aticum-age · Latin · action or place

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Where does garage come from?

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