garage
garage (gə-räzhʹ, -räjʹ) noun
1. A building or indoor space in which to park or keep a motor vehicle.
2. A commercial establishment where cars are repaired, serviced, or parked.
verb, transitive
garaged, garaging, garages
To put or store in a garage.
[French, from garer, to shelter, from Old French garer, guerrer, of Germanic origin.]
garageʹable adjective
Word History: It is difficult for a 20th-century imagination to envision a world without garages or a language without the word garage. However, probably before the 19th and certainly before the 18th century the word did not exist, and possibly before the end of the 19th century the thing itself did not exist. Our word is a direct borrowing of French garage, which is first recorded in 1802 in the sense "place where one docks." The verb garer, from which garage was derived, originally meant "to put merchandise under shelter," then "to moor a boat," and then "to put a vehicle into a place for safekeeping," that is, a garage, a sense first recorded in French in 1901. English almost immediately borrowed this French word, the first instance being found in 1902.