garage

Syllables: ga·rage/ˈɡæ.ɹɪdʒ//ɡəˈɹɑʒ/

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

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Noun

garage (countable and uncountable, plural garages)

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.1931, Francis Beeding, “2/2”, in Death Walks in Eastrepps
(Commonwealth, dated) 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.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 7, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
Synonyms:

auto shop, car workshop, vehicle workshop
(Commonwealth) A petrol filling station.

Synonyms:

petrol station, filling station, gas station, service station
A shed for housing an airship or aeroplane or a launchable missile; a hangar.
A side way or space in a canal to enable vessels to pass each other; a siding.
(attributive) A type of guitar rock music, personified by amateur bands playing in the basement or garage; garage rock.
(UK) A type of electronic dance music related to house music, with warped and time-stretched sounds; UK garage.

Verb

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

To store in a garage.
- We garaged the convertible during the monsoon months.
- Meanwhile the chauffeur who had driven them there—a subordinate member of the band—had garaged his car and was loitering about the drive in the expectation of further instructions.1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London

garage meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

garage in Hindi

building or section of building to store a car, tools etc.: गेराज gerāj, मोटरख़ाना moṭarxānā

garage in Tamil

வாகனக்கூடம், ஊர்திக்கூடம், வண்டிக்கொட்டகை, வாகனப் பராமரிப்பகம், வாகனப் பணியகம், வாகனப் பணிமனை

garage in Marathi

building or section of building to store a car, tools etc.: गॅरेज gĕrej
place where cars are serviced and repaired: गॅरेज gĕrej

garage in Urdu

building or section of building to store a car, tools etc.: گیراج gerāj, موٹَر خانَہ moṭar xāna, کار گودام kār godām

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garage in Bengali: গ্যারেজ gêrej
garage in Malayalam: ഗ്യാരേജ്, താളനിബദ്ധമല്ലാത്ത, ചടുലമായ ഒരുതരം പാശ്ചാത്യസംഗീതം, വാഹനങ്ങൾ കേടുപാട് തീർക്കുന്ന സ്ഥലം
garage in Kannada: ಗಾಡಿಕೊಟ್ಟಿಗೆ
garage in Sanskrit: यानागार yānāgāra
garage in Sinhala: ගරාජ් garāj
garage in Assamese: গেৰেজ gerez
garage in Pashto: ګاراج gārāj, ګراج garāj, موټرخانه moṭarxāna
garage in Tagalog: garahe
garage in Arabic: مُسْتَوْدَع mustawdaʕ, مِرْآب mirʔāb, مَرْأَب marʔab, وَرْشَة warša
garage in Malay: garaj, bengkel, woksyop
garage in Indonesian: garasi, bengkel
garage in Thai: โรงรถ roong-rót
garage in Vietnamese: nhà để xe hơi, nhà để xe, nhà xe, ga ra
garage in Myanmar: ကားရုံ ka:rum, ဂိုဒေါင် guidaung

Examples of garage in a sentence

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.1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XIX, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
In large cities cars are nuisances unless you have enough money to afford to garage the beasts.1979 April 28, Nancy Walker, “A Case of Mistaken Identity”, in Gay Community News, page 19:

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Synonyms of garage

All synonyms of garage

Forms of garage

Noun
plural	garages
Verb
third-person singular present	garages
present participle	garaging
past participle	garaged
past	garaged

Plural of garage: garages

Origin of garage

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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Questions about garage

What does garage mean?: Garage means a building (or section of a building) used to store a car or cars, tools and other miscellaneous items.
What is garage in Hindi?: Garage in Hindi is गेराज (gerāj), मोटरख़ाना (moṭarxānā). See Garage meaning in Hindi.
How do you use garage in a sentence?: 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.
What part of speech is garage?: Garage can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce garage?: Garage is pronounced /ˈɡæ.ɹɪdʒ/ (UK).
What is the plural of garage?: The plural of garage is garages.

Words near garage in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: garage (page history and authors); garage (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); garage (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); garage (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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