garage
- Top 5000
Sense 1
- noun
- A2
A closed space next to a house, or built into it, where someone keeps a car.
We keep the bikes and the lawnmower in the garage.
The car barely fits into our narrow single garage.
He turned half of the garage into a small workshop.
Ice had frozen the garage door shut overnight.
Common collocations: garage door · double garage · attached garage · park in the garage · clear out the garage
Part of: Rooms, Buildings and places, Means of transport
Sense 2 · less common
- noun
- B1
A business where cars are checked and repaired, and where fuel is often sold too.
The garage said the brakes need replacing before winter.
I left the van at the garage for a service.
A local garage fixed the exhaust for a reasonable price.
Common collocations: take the car to the garage · local garage · garage mechanic · book the car into a garage
Part of: Buildings and places, Means of transport, Jobs
Forms
- plural
- garages