garages

Noun

garage (countable and uncountable, plural garages)

1. 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
2. (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

3. (Commonwealth) A petrol filling station.

   Synonyms:

   petrol station, filling station, gas station, service station

4. A shed for housing an airship or aeroplane or a launchable missile; a hangar.
5. A side way or space in a canal to enable vessels to pass each other; a siding.
6. (attributive) A type of guitar rock music, personified by amateur bands playing in the basement or garage; garage rock.

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