garage English · revision 6660

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1902|origins=frk *warōn}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ˈɡæ.ɹɪdʒ/, /ˈɡæ.ɹɑːʒ/ ''(UK)''; /ɡəˈɹɑʒ/, /ɡəˈɹɑdʒ/ ''(US)''^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|fr|garage|t=a place for sheltering a vehicle]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024) from [[m|fr|garer|t=to shelter, to dock]], from Old French [[m|fro|garir|t=to protect]],^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988)^(Hoad 1986) from [[frk|*warōn|t=to guard]] or another Germanic source (compare [[goh|warōn|t=to take care]]; see [[wary]]).^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ A building for keeping motor vehicles: 1902, in a ''New York Athletic Club Journal'' notice calling it the French term for an automobile stable;^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989) MWU has 1905.^(MWU 2024)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The AHD notes that French garage first meant a place where boats dock (1802) and took the sense of a shelter for vehicles in 1901, and that English borrowed it almost immediately.^(AHD) A commercial establishment selling petrol and repairing cars is also from 1902.^(OED 1989) A hangar for aircraft was a garage from 1909.^(OED 1989) The verb, to put into a garage, is from 1906.^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline) The ''garage sale'' is American from 1966,^(OED 1989)^(Etymonline) the ''garage band'', an amateur rock group, from 1977,^(OED 1989) and garage as a style of dance music from 1987, named after the Paradise Garage club in New York.^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1902 – a shelter for cars.^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989)

+ * 1906 – the verb.^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)

+ * 1966 – garage sale.^(OED 1989)^(Etymonline)

+ * 1977 – garage band.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1987 – garage music.^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A building or part of a house for keeping a [[car]] or other vehicle.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # A place where vehicles are repaired, serviced or sold, often also selling fuel.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # A style of [[rock]] or dance music.^(Collins 2023)^(OED 1989)

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+ ===Verb===

+ # To put or keep a vehicle in a garage.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[garageable]]

+ * [[garageman]]

+ * [[garage band]]

+ * [[garage sale]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[wary]]

+ * [[beware]]

+ * [[garrison]]

+ * [[garret]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ British pronunciations include /ˈɡærɑːʒ/ and /ˈɡærɪdʒ/, while American English stresses the second syllable, /ɡəˈrɑːʒ/.^(Roach et al. 2011)^(Collins 2023)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}