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garret

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Scrabble points
7
Words With Friends
8
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈɡæɹɪt/
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/ˈɡæɹɪt/ · /ˈɡɛɹɪt/

Definition of garret

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. An attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house.
    “This morning (we living lately in the garret,) I rose, put on my suit with great skirts, having not lately worn any other clothes but them.”
    “On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge.”
    “I was in the main garret, with huge beams and rafters over my head, great spaces around me, a door here and there in sight, and long vistas whose gloom was thinned by a few lurking cobwebbed windows and small dusky skylights.”
    “While a boon to garret-living, financially struggling young musicians, the library has caught the attention of music publishers.”
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noun

  1. An attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house.
    “This morning (we living lately in the garret,) I rose, put on my suit with great skirts, having not lately worn any other clothes but them.”
    “On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge.”
    “I was in the main garret, with huge beams and rafters over my head, great spaces around me, a door here and there in sight, and long vistas whose gloom was thinned by a few lurking cobwebbed windows and small dusky skylights.”
    “While a boon to garret-living, financially struggling young musicians, the library has caught the attention of music publishers.”

name

  1. A male given name.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Middle English garett, garite, from Old French garite, guerite (“watchtower”), from garir, guarir (“to defend, protect”) (compare English garrison), ultimately of Germanic origin (see English garage). Doublet of guerite.

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