garret

garret

a small attic
Not to be confused with:garrote – a device or instrument used to strangle a person; strangulation or throttling

gar·ret

G0048200 (găr′ĭt)n. A room or set of rooms immediately under the roof of a building; an attic.

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[Middle English, from Old French garite, watchtower, from garir, to defend, of Germanic origin; see wer- in Indo-European roots.]

garret

(ˈɡærɪt) n (Architecture) another word for attic¹[C14: from Old French garite watchtower, from garir to protect, of Germanic origin; see wary]

gar•ret

(ˈgær ɪt)

n. an attic, usu. a small, cramped one. [1300–50; Middle English garite watchtower < Old French garite, guerite watchtower, derivative of garir, guarir to defend, protect; see garrison] gar′ret•ed, adj.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

garret - floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storageattic, loftcockloft - a small loft or garretstorey, floor, story, level - a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale; "what level is the office on?"hayloft, mow, haymow - a loft in a barn where hay is storedhouse - a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families; "he has a house on Cape Cod"; "she felt she had to get out of the house"

garret

noun attic, loft a tortured artist living in a garret in Paris

Translations

阁楼顶楼

garret

(ˈgӕrət) noun a usually small and sometimes dark room just under the roof of a house. He was poor and lived in a garret. 閣樓 阁楼，顶楼