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gar·ret1    Audio Help   [gar-it] Pronunciation Key
–noun
an attic, usually a small, wretched one.

[Origin: 1300–50; ME garite watchtower < OF garite, guerite watchtower, deriv. of garir, guarir to defend, protect; see garrison]

gar·ret·ed, adjective
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–noun, verb (used with object) Masonry.
gallet.

[Origin: 1835–45; of uncert. orig.]
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gar·ret    Audio Help   (gār'ĭt)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   A room on the top floor of a house, typically under a pitched roof; an attic.


[Middle English, from Old French garite, watchtower, from garir, to defend, of Germanic origin; see wer-4 in Indo-European roots.]

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garret 
c.1300, "turret," from O.Fr. garite "watchtower, place of refuge," from garir "defend, preserve," from a Gmc. source (cf. Goth. warjan "forbid," O.H.G. warjan "to defend"), from P.Gmc. *warjanan, from PIE base *wer- "to cover" (see warrant). Meaning "room on uppermost floor of a house" is from 1483. See attic.

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garret

noun
floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage [syn: loft

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garret [ˈgӕrət] noun
a usually small and sometimes dark room just under the roof of a house
Example: He was poor and lived in a garret.
Arabic: عُلِّيَّه، غُرْفَه مُهْمَلَه في أعْلى البَيْت
Chinese (Simplified): 阁楼,顶楼
Chinese (Traditional): 閣樓,頂樓
Czech: podkroví, podkrovní místnost
Danish: kvist
Dutch: zolderkamer
Estonian: katusekamber
Finnish: ullakkohuone
French: grenier
German: die Dachstube
Greek: σοφίτα
Hungarian: manzárd
Icelandic: háaloft, ris
Indonesian: loteng
Italian: soffitta, solaio
Japanese: 屋根裏部屋
Korean: 다락방
Latvian: jumtistaba; bēniņi
Lithuanian: palėpė
Norwegian: kvist(værelse), loftskammer
Polish: poddasze
Portuguese (Brazil): água-furtada, sótão
Portuguese (Portugal): mansarda
Romanian: man­sar­dă
Russian: чердак
Slovak: podkrovie
Slovenian: podstrešna izba
Spanish: buhardilla, desván
Swedish: vindskupa
Turkish: tavanarası odası
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Garret

Gar"ret\, n. [OE. garite, garette, watchtower, place of lookout, OF. garite, also meaning, a place of refuge, F. gu['e]rite a place of refuge, donjon, sentinel box, fr. OF. garir to preserve, save, defend, F. gu['e]rir to cure; of German origin; cf. OHG. werian to protect, defend, hinder, G. wehren, akin to Goth. warjan to hinder, and akin to E. weir, or perhaps to wary. See Weir, and cf. Guerite.]

1. A turret; a watchtower. [Obs.]

He saw men go up and down on the garrets of the gates and walls. --Ld. Berners.

2. That part of a house which is on the upper floor, immediately under or within the roof; an attic.

The tottering garrets which overhung the streets of Rome. --Macaulay.
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