GARAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does garage mean? 

• GARAGE (noun)
  The noun GARAGE has 2 senses:

1. an outbuilding (or part of a building) for housing automobiles

2. a repair shop where cars and trucks are serviced and repaired

  Familiarity information: GARAGE used as a noun is rare.

• GARAGE (verb)
  The verb GARAGE has 1 sense:

1. keep or store in a garage

  Familiarity information: GARAGE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GARAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An outbuilding (or part of a building) for housing automobiles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("garage" is a kind of...):

outbuilding (a building that is subordinate to and separate from a main building)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "garage"):

car port; carport (garage for one or two cars consisting of a flat roof supported on poles)

Derivation:

garage (keep or store in a garage)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A repair shop where cars and trucks are serviced and repaired

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

garage; service department

Hypernyms ("garage" is a kind of...):

fix-it shop; repair shop (a shop specializing in repairs and maintenance)

• GARAGE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they garage    ... he / she / it garages   
Past simple: garaged   
Past participle: garaged   
-ing form: garaging   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Keep or store in a garage

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Context example:

we don't garage our car

Hypernyms (to "garage" is one way to...):

store (find a place for and put away for storage)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

garage (an outbuilding (or part of a building) for housing automobiles)

 Context examples 

You see he poses as a motor expert and I keep a full garage.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You may have hazardous wastes in your basement or garage.

(Hazardous Waste, Environmental Protection Agency)

The insides of our homes can contain small molecules like chloroform or benzene a component of gasoline through simple actions like showering, boiling water, or storing cars on lawnmowers in attached garages.

(Common Houseplant with Genetic Modification Can Remove Polluted Air, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

He went further, and in a private talk with Hermann told him to keep his eyes open for an automobile agency and garage, for there was no reason that he should not be able to run both establishments successfully.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Her name was Wilson. Her husband owns the garage. How the devil did it happen?

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

"I got to West Egg by a side road," he went on, "and left the car in my garage. I don't think anybody saw us but of course I can't be sure."

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Presently Tom lifted his head with a jerk and after staring around the garage with glazed eyes addressed a mumbled incoherent remark to the policeman.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

In one of the windows over the garage the curtains had been moved aside a little and Myrtle Wilson was peering down at the car.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Now I want to go back a little and tell what happened at the garage after we left there the night before.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Until long after midnight a changing crowd lapped up against the front of the garage while George Wilson rocked himself back and forth on the couch inside.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)