GARRET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does garret mean? 

• GARRET (noun)
  The noun GARRET has 1 sense:

1. floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage

  Familiarity information: GARRET used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GARRET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

attic; garret; loft

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

floor; level; storey; story (a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale)

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

cockloft (a small loft or garret)

hayloft; haymow; mow (a loft in a barn where hay is stored)

Holonyms ("garret" is a part of...):

house (a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families)

 Context examples 

Jo liked this, and after an energetic rummage from garret to cellar, subsided on the sofa to nurse her cold with arsenicum and books.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“Wife,” said the man, “go into the garret; on the upper shelf you will see a pair of red shoes; bring them to me.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Of course we searched the house from cellar to garret, but there was no trace of him.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mrs. Fairfax stayed behind a moment to fasten the trap-door; I, by drift of groping, found the outlet from the attic, and proceeded to descend the narrow garret staircase.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The garret windows and tops of houses were so crowded with spectators, that I thought in all my travels I had not seen a more populous place.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Mine was a quiet back-garret with a sloping roof, commanding a pleasant prospect of a timberyard; and when I took possession of it, with the reflection that Mr. Micawber's troubles had come to a crisis at last, I thought it quite a paradise.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

These parlors are both too small for such parties of our friends as I hope to see often collected here; and I have some thoughts of throwing the passage into one of them with perhaps a part of the other, and so leave the remainder of that other for an entrance; this, with a new drawing room which may be easily added, and a bed-chamber and garret above, will make it a very snug little cottage.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

There was no garret at all, and no cellar—except a small hole dug in the ground, called a cyclone cellar, where the family could go in case one of those great whirlwinds arose, mighty enough to crush any building in its path.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

I rushed up garret when the letter came, and tried to thank god for being so good to us, but I could only cry, and say, "I'm glad! I'm glad!"

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Martha, with an astonished look, repeated her former action, and softly led me up the stairs; and then, by a little back-door which seemed to have no lock, and which she pushed open with a touch, into a small empty garret with a low sloping roof, little better than a cupboard.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)