garage

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A building next to or part of a house where a car is kept.

   He parked the car in the garage and locked the door.

2. 2
   noun

   A place where cars are repaired and serviced.

   I took my car to the garage because the brakes were making a noise.

3. 3
   noun

   A place where you buy fuel for your car (British).

   We stopped at a garage to fill up the tank before the long drive.

4. 4
   verb

   To put or keep a car in a garage.

   We garaged the old convertible during the rainy season.

Common collocations

• parking garage Noun + 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”…

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