garret
pronunciation
How to pronounce garret in British English:
UK [ˈɡærət]
How to pronounce garret in American English:
US [ˈɡærət]
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- Noun:
- floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage
Word Origin
- garret (n.)
- c. 1300, garite, "turret, small tower on the roof of a house or castle," from Old French garite "watchtower, place of refuge, shelter, lookout," from garir "defend, preserve," which is from a Germanic source (compare Old English warian "to hold, defend," Gothic warjan "forbid," Old High German warjan "to defend"), from Proto-Germanic *warjan, from PIE root *wer- (5) "to cover" (see warrant (n.)). Meaning "room on uppermost floor of a house," especially a room with a sloping roof, is from early 14c. See attic. As the typical wretched abode of a poor poet, by mid-18c.
Example
- 1. They are the poor men living in a garret .
- 2. They changed their flat ; they took a garret under the roof .
- 3. Ok . Where 'll we live ? . In a garret ? .
- 4. She doesn 't fit the image of an impoverished artist starving in a garret .
- 5. His feelings were something like those of an old dancer at the theatre , who is dancing for the last time , and knows that on the morrow she will be in her garret , alone and forgotten .