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Definition of garage noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

garage

noun
 
 
/ˈɡærɑːʒ/,
 
/ˈɡærɑːdʒ/,
 
/ˈɡærɪdʒ/
 
/ɡəˈrɑːʒ/,
 
/ɡəˈrɑːdʒ/
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  1.  
     [countable] a building for keeping one or more cars or other vehicles in
    • a double garage (= one for two cars)
    • a house with a detached/an attached/an integral garage
    • a bus garage
    • an underground garage (= for example under an office building)
    • in a garage Don't forget to put the car in the garage.
    • Did you shut the garage door?
    see also parking garageTopics Buildingsb1, Houses and homesb1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • double
    • single
    • triple
    • …
    verb + garage
    • build
    • construct
    • erect
    • …
    garage + noun
    • door
    • space
    • sale
    • …
    preposition
    • in a/​the garage
    See full entry
  2.  
     [countable] a place where vehicles are repaired and/or where you can buy a car or buy petrol and oil
    • I had to take the car to the garage.
    • at a garage The car's still at the garage.
    • a garage mechanic
    compare petrol stationTopics Transport by car or lorryb1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • local
    verb + garage
    • own
    • run
    • take something to
    • …
    garage + noun
    • mechanic
    • owner
    • business
    • …
    preposition
    • at a/​the garage
    See full entry
  3. (also garage rock)
     [uncountable] a style of rock music played with great energy but not necessarily great technique, popular in the 1960s
  4. (also UK garage)
     [uncountable] a type of electronic dance music with elements of drum and bass, house music and soulTopics Musicc2
    5. Word Originearly 20th cent.: from French, from garer ‘to shelter’.
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