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Definition: Garret |
GarretNoun1. Floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Garret" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the rule of the spear". |
Date "garret" was first used: sometime around 1300. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of climbing to a garret, denotes your inclination to run after theories while leaving the cold realities of life to others less able to bear them than yourself. To the poor, this dream is an omen of easier circumstances. To a woman, it denotes that her vanity and sefishness{sic} should be curbed. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Slang in 1811 | GARRET, or UPPER STORY. The head. His garret, or upper story, is empty, or unfurnished; i.e. he has no brains, he is a fool. UPPER STORY, or GARRET. Figuratively used to signify the head. His upper story or garrets are unfurnished; i.e. he is an empty or foolish fellow. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: GarretSynonyms: attic (n), loft (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Receptacle | Attic, loft, garret, clerestory; cellar, vault, hold, cockpit; cubbyhole; cook house; entre-sol; mezzanine floor; ground floor, rez-de-chaussee; basement, kitchen, pantry, bawarchi-khana, scullery, offices; storeroom; (depository); lumber room; dairy, laundry. |
Summit | Attic, loft, garret, house top, upper story. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Garret |
| English words defined with "garret": cockloft ♦ Garreteer ♦ Solere. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "garret": HIGH EATING, HIGH LIVING ♦ SKY PARLOUR. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "garret": Luthern. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Altanera Evangelina Garret (1962) The Ghost in the Garret (1921) | |
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Books | |
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| "Fado in lisboa" by Sandro Petri Commentary: "Fado vadio in rua garret, chado, lisboa." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Those Horrid Hurdy-Gurdies! | Carroll, Lewis | I tried the garret but once, and found That my wish for a change was mistaken |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | A poor devil, on returning to his garret, would find that his door had been opened, sometimes even forced, during his absence |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | The garret windows and tops of houses were so crowded with spectators, that I thought in all my travels I had not seen a more populous place |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | He should have gone up garret at once |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Political Economy | Ireland | Fine Gael is the successor to the Pro-Free State Treaty party, which formed the first Irish government in 1923. Fine Gael has headed virtually all post-1932 non-Fianna Fail governments, including the three-party "Rainbow Coalition" that governed Ireland from 1994-97. Traditionally more economically conservative than Fianna Fail, Fine Gael assumed a more social democratic orientation under Garret FitzGerald, who was Prime Minister from 1981-1982 and from 1982-1987. Fine Gael holds similar economic policy views to Fianna Fail on practically all key issues. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Garret" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 82.28% of the time. "Garret" is used about 79 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 82.28% | 65 | 41,645 |
| Noun (proper) | 16.46% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.27% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 79 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "garret" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Garret | First name Male | 4,000 | 1,131 |
| Garret | Last name | 1,000 | 16,157 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "Garret" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the rule of the spear". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Garret." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Garret | Male | English | Garrett |
| Garrett | Male | English | Gerald |
| Gerald | Male | English | N/A |
| Jarrett | Male | English | Garrett |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Expression using "garret": garret rooms. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "garret"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | papafingo (attic, dormer, loft), mansardë (cockloft, mansard-roof), dhomë nën çati, çardak. (various references) | |
Arabic | العلية حجرة تحت السقف مباشرة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | таванска стая, мансарда (attic, cockloft, mansard). (various references) | |
Chinese | 閣樓 (attic, loft), 阁楼. (various references) | |
Czech | podkroví (attic, cockloft, loft-room). (various references) | |
Dutch | zolderkamer (attic), dakkamertje (attic). (various references) | |
Esperanto | mansardo (attic). (various references) | |
Farsi | اطاق زیرشیروانی (Loft), برج دیده بانی . (various references) | |
Finnish | ullakko (attic, loft), parvi (attic, crowd, flock, school, shoal, swarm). (various references) | |
French | mansarde, grenier (garner). (various references) | |
German | mansarde (attic, attic (room), mansard), dachstube (attic, attic room), dachkammer (attic), Bodenkammer. (various references) | |
Greek | σοφίτα (attic, loft, mansard). (various references) | |
Hebrew | עלית גג (attic, loft). (various references) | |
Hungarian | padlásszoba (cock-loft, garrett, loft, loft-room). (various references) | |
Indonesian | loteng (attic, loft, story). (various references) | |
Italian | soffitta (attic, loft, mansard, top floor), abbaino (attic, cock-loft, loft). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 屋根裏部屋 (attic, loft). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | やねうらべや (attic, loft). (various references) | |
Manx | garrad (attic). (various references) | |
Norwegian | kvisteværelse. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | arretgay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | trapeira (dormer window, louver, louvre), sótão (Attic, cockloft, loft), mansarda (mansard). (various references) | |
Romanian | pod (attic, bridge, loft), mansardå (attic), mansardã (attic, french roof, mansard, the attics). (various references) | |
Russian | чердак (attic, cockloft, loft). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | tavan (attic, cockloft). (various references) | |
Spanish | guardilla, desván (attic, loft). (various references) | |
Swedish | vindsrum, vind (attic, box room, box-room, loft, warped, wind). (various references) | |
Thai | ห้องใต้หลังคา (attic). (various references) | |
Turkish | tavanarası (attic, loft), çatı katı (attic, penthouse). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | горище (balk, cockloft, loft), макітра (chump, noddle, noggin, noodle, nut, onion). (various references) | |
Welsh | croglofft (rood-loft). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | cella, cenacula, cenaculi, cenaculis, cenaculo, cenaculum. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | garite. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "garret": garrets. (additional references) | |
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"Garret" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: agreet, arert, arret, Garara, garat, Garatt, garcet, gareb, garech, Garet, garett, garit, garmet, Garoeb, garrat, garrate, garray, garreg, garren, Garrity, Garrle, Garroch, garrott, Garrucha, gart, garte, Garuet, Gerratt, Giaretto, Girardet, girte, gorrem, gorrer, gorrit, grart, grett, Gurreh, Jarret, Ugarit. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "garret" (pronounced ge"rut) |
| 4 | -e" r u t | beret, carat, demerit, ferret, inherit, karat, merit, parrot. |
| 3 | -r u t | carrot, culprit, curate, desperate, elaborate, interpret, invertebrate, noncorporate, pirate, portrait, reinterpret, secret, spirit, supersecret, temperate. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: garter, grater. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-r-r-t" | |
-1 letter: grate, great, rater, retag, targe, tarre, terga, terra. | |
-2 letters: ager, gate, gear, geta, grat, rage, rare, rate, rear, tare, tear. | |
-3 letters: age, are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, erg, err, eta, gae, gar, gat, get, rag, rat, reg, ret, tae, tag, tar, tea, teg. | |
-4 letters: ae, ag, ar, at, er, et, re, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-r-r-t" | |
+1 letter: garrets, garrote, garters, grafter, granter, graters, greater, regraft, regrant, regrate. | |
+2 letters: arrogate, dragster, garotter, garroted, garroter, garrotes, garrotte, gartered, gatherer, grafters, granters, irrigate, regather, regrafts, regrants, regrated, regrates, retarget, stranger. | |
+3 letters: arbitrage, arresting, arrogated, arrogates, bartering, cartridge, corrugate, cratering, dragsters, estranger, forgather, garniture, garotters, garroters, garrotted, garrottes, gartering, gatherers, generator, geriatric, irrigated, irrigates, margarite, mortgager, partridge, porterage, prorogate, recrating, regardant, regathers, registrar, regrafted, regranted, regrating, regulator, reportage, retarding, retargets, retearing, retracing, serrating, staggerer, stargazer, straggler, strangers, strangler, surrogate, terracing. | |
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