Dictionary

garret en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈɡæɹɪt/ (General-American)
• /ˈɡɛɹɪt/ (General-American)
• (US) audio
• /ˈɡæɹɪt/ (Received-Pronunciation)

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.

Meanings

1. An attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house.
   • 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. 1866, Fyodor Dostoyevsky (translated by Constance Garnett), Crime and Punishment, Part I, Chapter I:
   • 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. 1660 January 10 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “January 1st, 1659–1660”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume (please specify |volume=I to X), London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1893–1899, →OCLC:
   • 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. 1895, George MacDonald, Lilith:
   • While a boon to garret-living, financially struggling young musicians, the library has caught the attention of music publishers. 2011 February 22, Daniel J. Wakin, “Free Trove of Music Scores on Web Hits Sensitive Copyright Note”, in New York Times:

Forms

Deriveds

garreteer · garretlike · garret-master · garret window · like a cat in a strange garret · garreter · garreted

Translations (45)

cmn 閣樓 /阁楼 (an attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house) · gl bastardo (an attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house) · is háaloft (an attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house) · bg мансарда (an attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house) · nl zolderkamer (an attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house) · ru манса́рда (an attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house) · tr çatı katı (an attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house) · cs podkroví (an attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house) · pl poddasze (an attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house) · gl faiado (an attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house) · rsk пойд (an attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house) · no loft (an attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house) · pdt Dakstow (an attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house) · fi ullakko (an attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house) · nl zolder (an attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house) · sv skyffe (an attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house) · oc galatras (an attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house) · fi ullakkohuone (an attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house) · hu manzárdszoba (an attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house) · ka სხვენი (an attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house) · sv vindsrum (an attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house) · de Dachwohnung (an attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house) · hu padlásszoba (an attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house) · eo mansardo (an attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house) · hi दुछत्ती (an attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house) · hi अटारी (an attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house) · fr galetas (an attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house) · ca cadamunt (an attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house) · gl barra (an attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house) · de Mansarde (an attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house) · ca golfa (an attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house) · is ris (an attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house) · sh potkrovlje (an attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house) · ja 屋根裏部屋 (an attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house) · pt sótão (an attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house) · no loftsrom (an attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house) · nl vliering (an attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house) · ka მანსარდა (an attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house) · es buhardilla (an attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house) · enm garite (an attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house) · mk мансарда (an attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house) · sh поткровље (an attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house) · ru черда́к (an attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house) · gd seòmar-mullaich (an attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house) · el σοφίτα (an attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house)