garage – English noun declension

English noun forms of garage

Noun: garage
Singulargarage
Pluralgarages

Sample Sentences

  • A little further on, to the right, was a large garage, where the charabancs stood, half in and half out of the yard. [1931, Francis Beeding, “2/2”, in Death Walks in Eastrepps:]
  • The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures. [1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 7, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:]

Etymology

Borrowed from French garage (“keeping under cover, protection, shelter”), derivative of French garer (“to keep under cover, dock, shunt, guard, keep”), from Middle French garer, garrer, guerrer; partly from Old French garir, warir (from Old Frankish *warjan); and partly from Old French varer (“to fight, defend oneself, protect”), from Old Norse varask (“to defend oneself”), reflexive of vara (“to ware, watch out, defend”); both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *warjaną (“to defend, ward off”), *warōną (“to watch, protect”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to close, cover, protect, save, defend”). See: French Nouns 'garage'.

Verbs referencing "garage"

English Nouns garret, Irish Nouns garáiste, Zulu Nouns igalaji.