garage

Meanings

Noun

• A building (or section of a building) used to store a car or cars, tools and other miscellaneous items.
• A place where cars are serviced and repaired.
• A petrol filling 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.
• A type of guitar rock music, personified by amateur bands playing in the basement or garage; garage rock.
• A type of electronic dance music related to house music, with warped and time-stretched sounds; UK garage.

Verb

• To store in a garage.

Origin

• Borrowed from French garage, derivative of French garer, from Middle French garer, garrer, guerrer; partly from Old French garir, warir (from Old Frankish *warjan); and partly from Old French varer, from Old Norse varask ("to defend oneself"), reflexive of vara; both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *warjaną ("to defend, ward off"), *warōną, from Proto-Indo-European *wer-.