garage

See also Garage

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

• (Canada) IPA: /ɡəˈɹɒʒ/, /ɡəˈɹɒdʒ/, /ɡəˈɹædʒ/, /ɡəˈɹæʒ/, X-SAMPA: /ɡ@"r\QZ/, /ɡ@"r\QdZ/, /ɡ@"r\{dZ/, /ɡ@"r\{Z/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /ˈɡæˌɹɪdʒ/, /ˈɡæɹɑdʒ/, X-SAMPA: /"g{%rIdZ/
• (SAE) IPA: /ˈɡæɹɑ(ː)dʒ/, X-SAMPA: /"ɡ{r\A(:)dZ/
• (UK) IPA: /ˈɡæˌɹɪdʒ/, /ˈɡæɹɑːʒ/, X-SAMPA: /"ɡ{%r\IdZ/, /"ɡ{r\A:Z/

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  • Rhymes: -æɹɪdʒ
• (US) IPA: /ɡəˈɹɑʒ/, /ɡəˈɹɑdʒ/, X-SAMPA: /g@"rAZ/, /g@"rAdZ/

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  • Rhymes: -ɑːʒ, Rhymes: -ɑːdʒ
• Hyphenation: ga‧rage
• (Australia) IPA: /ˈɡæɹaː(d)ʒ/, /gəˈɹaː(d)ʒ/, /ˈɡæɹɪdʒ/, X-SAMPA: /"g{r\a:(d)Z/, /g@"r\a:(d)Z/, /"g{r\IdZ/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /ˈɡɛɹɪdʒ/, /ˈɡɛɹɐː(d)ʒ/, X-SAMPA: /"gEr\IdZ/, /"gEr\6:(d)Z/

Noun

Wikipedia Wikipedia garage (plural garages)

1. A building (or section of a building) used to store a car or cars, tools and other miscellaneous items.
   • 1931, Francis Beeding, chapter 2/2, Death Walks in Eastrepps^[1]:

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

2. (chiefly UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand)  A place where cars are serviced and repaired.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 7, The China Governess^[2]:

     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.

3. (chiefly UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand)  A petrol filling station.
4. (dated, 20th century, North America)  An independent automobile repair shop.
5. (attributive)  A type of guitar rock music, personified by amateur bands playing in the basement or garage.
6. (UK)  A type of electronic dance music related to house music, with warped and time-stretched sounds.

Usage notes

Historically a commercial garage would offer storage, refueling, servicing, and repair of vehicles. Since the mid-late 20th Century, storage has become uncommon at premises having the other functions. Now refueling, servicing, and repair are becoming increasingly separated from each other. Few repair garages still sell petrol; it is very uncommon for a new filling station to have a mechanic or any facilities for servicing beyond inflating tires; and a new kind of business exists to provide servicing: the oil/lube change shop.

Synonyms

• (a petrol filling station): filling station, gas station (North America), petrol station (UK)

Derived terms

terms derived from garage (noun)

garage band garage rock garage sale

garage startup parking garage speed garage UK garage

Translations

place to store a car, etc.

• Albanian: garazh (sq)
• Arabic: كراج (ar) (karāj) m, جراج (ar) (garāj) m
• Armenian: ավտոտնակ (hy) (avtotnak), (colloquial) գարաժ (hy) (garaž)
• Asturian: garaxe (ast) m
• Belarusian: гараж (be) (haráž) m
• Bulgarian: гараж (bg) (garaž)
• Catalan: garatge (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 車房

  Mandarin: 車庫 (cmn), 车库 (cmn) (chēkù)

• Czech: garáž (cs) f
• Danish: garage (da) c
• Faroese: bilhús (fo) n
• Finnish: autotalli (fi)
• French: garage (fr) m
• German: Garage (de) f
• Greek: γκαράζ (el) (garáz)
• Hebrew: מוסך (he)
• Hindi: गेराज (hi) (gerāj)
• Hungarian: garázs (hu)
• Icelandic: bílskúr (is) m
• Indonesian: garasi (id)
• Irish: garáiste (ga) m
• Italian: garage (it) m

• Japanese: 車庫 (ja) (しゃこ, shako), ガレージ (ja) (garēji)
• Jèrriais: garage m
• Korean: 차고 (ko) (chago) (車庫 (ko))
• Persian: گاراژ (fa) (gârâž)
• Polish: garaż (pl) m
• Portuguese: garagem (pt) f
• Romanian: garaj (ro) n
• Russian: гара́ж (ru) (garáž) m
• Scottish Gaelic: garaids (gd) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гаража (sh) f

  Roman: garaža (sh) f

• Skolt Sami: auttstä´llj
• Slovak: garáž (sk) f
• Slovene: garaža (sl) f
• Spanish: garaje (es) m
• Swedish: garage (sv) n
• Tagalog: garahe (tl)
• Thai: โรงรถ (th) (rohng rót)
• Turkish: garaj (tr)
• Ukrainian: гараж (uk) (haráž) m
• Urdu: گیراج (ur) (gerāj)
• Vietnamese: ga ra (vi), nhà để ô tô (vi)
• Volapük: garad (vo)

place where cars are serviced and repaired

• Czech: servis (cs) m, autoservis (cs) m, opravna (cs) f, autoopravna (cs) f
• Finnish: korjaamo (fi)
• French: garage (fr)
• Hungarian: szervíz (hu)
• Irish: garáiste (ga) m
• Japanese: 整備工場 (ja) (せいびこうじょう, seibi kōjō)
• Jèrriais: garage m
• Korean: 정비소 (ko) (joengpiso)

• Romanian: autoservice (ro) n
• Russian: автосервис (ru) (avtosɛ́rvis) m, мастерская (ru) (masterskája) f
• Scottish Gaelic: garaids (gd) f
• Spanish: garaje (es) m, taller (es) m
• Swedish: verkstad (sv) c, bilverkstad (sv) c
• Turkish: servis (tr)

gas station — see gas station

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• Kurdish: garaj f

• Spanish: garaje m

Verb

garage (third-person singular simple present garages, present participle garaging, simple past and past participle garaged)

1. To store in a garage.

   We garaged the convertible during the monsoon months.

   • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XIX:

     I garaged the car and went to Aunt Dahlia's sanctum to ascertain whether she had cooled off at all since I had left her, for I was still anxious about that blood pressure of hers.

Translations

to store in a garage

• Hungarian: garazsíroz (hu)

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Danish

Etymology

Borrowing from French garage.

Noun

garage c (singular definite garagen, plural indefinite garager)

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

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French

Etymology

garer +‎ -age

Pronunciation

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Noun

garage m (plural garages)

1. garage

Anagrams

• gagera

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowing from French garage.

Noun

garage m (invariable)

1. garage (domestic storage for a car; motor repair facility)

Synonyms

• autorimessa (motor repair facility)

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Jèrriais

Etymology

From French garage.

Noun

garage m (plural garages)

1. garage

Derived terms

• garagiste (“garage-keeper”)

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Swedish

Etymology

Borrowing from French garage.

Pronunciation

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Noun

garage n

1. garage; a building (or section of a building) used to store a car

Declension

Declension of garage

	singular		plural
Neuter	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	garage	garaget	garage	garagen
genitive	garages	garagets	garages	garagens

Related terms

• garagedörr
• garageplats