Garret

Pronunciation

• GenAm IPA: /ˈɡɛɹɪt/, /ˈɡæɹɪt/
• RP IPA: /ˈɡæɹɪt/

Origin

Middle English, from Old French garite ("watchtower"). Compare guerite, of same origin.

Full definition of garret

Noun

1. An attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house.
• 1660, Samuel Pepys Diary'', January 1.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.
• 1866, w, Crime and Punishment, 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.
• 1895, w, Lilith, 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.

Derived terms

• like a cat in a strange garret

Anagrams

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• grater