garage

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   keep or store in a garage

   we don't garage our car

2. 2
   noun

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

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

3. 3
   noun

   A place where cars are serviced and repaired.

   The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.

4. 4
   verb

   To store in a garage.

   We garaged the convertible during the monsoon months.

5. 5
   noun

   an outbuilding (or part of a building) for housing automobiles

6. 6
   noun

   a repair shop where cars and trucks are serviced and repaired

7. 7
   noun

   A petrol filling station.

8. 8
   noun

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

Etymology

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”…