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ga⋅rage
[guh-rahzh, -rahj or, especially Brit., gar-ij, -ahzh] 
ɪdʒ
noun, verb, -raged, -rag⋅ing.–noun
| 1. | a building or indoor area for parking or storing motor vehicles. |
| 2. | a commercial establishment for repairing and servicing motor vehicles. |
–verb (used with object)
| 3. | to put or keep in a garage. |
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| ga·rage (gə-räzh', -räj') n.
To put or store in a garage. [French, from garer, to shelter, from Old French garer, guerrer, of Germanic origin; see wer-4 in Indo-European roots.] ga·rage'a·ble adj. Word History: It is difficult today to envision a world without garages or a language without the word garage. However, the word probably did not exist before the 19th century and certainly not before the 18th; possibly the thing itself did not exist before the end of the 19th century. Our word is a direct borrowing of French garage, which is first recorded in 1802 in the sense "place where one docks." The verb garer, from which garage was derived, originally meant "to put merchandise under shelter," then "to moor a boat," and then "to put a vehicle into a place for safekeeping," that is, a garage, a sense first recorded in French in 1901. English almost immediately borrowed this French word, the first instance being found in 1902. |
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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.
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Language Translation for : Garage
Spanish:
garaje, cochera,
German:
die Garage,
Japanese:
車庫
garage
1902, from Fr. garage, from verb garer "to shelter," from M.Fr. garer "to shelter, dock ships," from Frank. *waron "to guard" (cf. O.H.G. waron "take care"), from P.Gmc. *war-, from PIE base *wer- "to cover" (see warrant). Garage sale first attested 1966.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Garage
- An annex floor to the main trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange.
Wall Street Words: An A to Z Guide to Investment Terms by David L. Scott.
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