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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an outbuilding (or part of a building) for housing automobiles
2: a repair shop where cars and trucks are serviced and repaired [syn: garage, service department] v
1: keep or store in a garage; "we don't garage our car"

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: French, act of docking, garage, from garer to dock, from Middle French garrer, probably ultimately from Old Norse vara to beware, take care; akin to Old High German biwar?n to protect — more at ware Date: 1902 1. a shelter or repair shop for automotive vehicles 2. a cabinet with a vertical rolling door that is used for storing a small kitchen appliance II. transitive verb (garaged; garaging) Date: 1905 to keep or put in a garage

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. 1 a building or shed for the storage of a motor vehicle or vehicles. 2 an establishment selling petrol etc., or repairing and selling motor vehicles. --v.tr. put or keep (a motor vehicle) in a garage. Phrases and idioms: garage sale US a sale of miscellaneous household goods, usu. for charity, held in the garage of a private house. Etymology: F f. garer shelter

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Garage Ga`rage", n. [F.] 1. A place for housing automobiles. 2. (A["e]ronautics) A shed for housing an airship or flying machine; a hangar. 3. A side way or space in a canal to enable vessels to pass each other; a siding. Note: Garage is recent in English, and has as yet acquired no settled pronunciation.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Garage Ga`rage", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Garaged; p. pr. & vb. n. Garaging.] To keep in a garage. [Colloq.]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(garages) 1. A garage is a building in which you keep a car. A garage is often built next to or as part of a house. N-COUNT 2. A garage is a place where you can get your car repaired. In Britain, you can also buy fuel for your car, or buy cars. Nancy took her car to a local garage for a check-up... N-COUNT; N-IN-NAMES