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Garage House Car Music Noun ˈɡærɑːʒ ˈɡærɑːdʒ Double

Word3 garage
WordType (noun)
Phonetic /ˈɡærɑːʒ/ /ˈɡærɑːdʒ/
Example
  • 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)
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garage

(noun)/ˈɡærɑːʒ/ /ˈɡærɑːdʒ/
  1. a building for keeping one or more cars or other vehicles in
    • SEE ALSO parking garage
      https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/parking-garage
    • 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)
    • Don't forget to put the car in the garage.
    • Did you shut the garage door?
  2. a place where vehicles are repaired and/or where you can buy a car or buy petrol and oil
    • COMPARE petrol station
      https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/petrol-station
    • I had to take the car to the garage.
    • The car's still at the garage.
    • a garage mechanic
  3. a style of rock music played with great energy but not necessarily great technique, popular in the 1960s
  4. a type of electronic dance music with elements of drum and bass, house music and soul
  5. Word Origin

    • early 20th cent.: from French, from garer ‘to shelter’.
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