| 单词 | garret |
| 释义 | garret (once / 1123 pages) n A garret is a room at the very top of a house, just underneath the roof. If you don't have enough money to rent a proper room, you might be able to rent a garret. Garret comes from the old French word guerite, which means "watchtower" or "sentry box." These days, a garret has nothing to do with war; it simply means the little room at the very top of a building, which is also called an attic. The idea of living in a garret is romantically associated with being a starving artist — great if you don't mind hunger and stooping over all the time because the roof is so low. WORD FAMILYgarret: garrets USAGE EXAMPLESGarret Covington had 22 points and six rebounds for the Leathernecks. Washington Times(Nov 19, 2016) Consider the tubercular waifs of Puccini’s “La Bohème” burning manuscripts to stay warm in their Paris garrets. Los Angeles Times(Oct 14, 2016) It sounded like criticism of the heroic writer, alone in his garret, but there’s more to it than that. The New Yorker(Oct 10, 2016) n floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage Syn|Hypo|Hyper attic, loft cockloft a small loft or garret hayloft, haymow, mowa loft in a barn where hay is stored floor, level, storey, story a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale |
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