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GARRET
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("garret" is a kind of...):
floor; level; storey; story (a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "garret"):
cockloft (a small loft or garret)
hayloft; haymow; mow (a loft in a barn where hay is stored)
Holonyms ("garret" is a part of...):
house (a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families)
Context examples:
"Jo! Jo! Where are you?" cried Meg at the foot of the garret stairs.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Jo bore up very well till the last flutter of blue ribbon vanished, when she retired to her refuge, the garret, and cried till she couldn't cry any more.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
But inside, it was altogether charming, and the happy bride saw no fault from garret to cellar.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Jo was very busy in the garret, for the October days began to grow chilly, and the afternoons were short.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Jo laughed at that as she had not done for many a long day, and patted the sofa invitingly, as she said in a cordial tone, The old pillow is up garret, and we don't need it now.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
But great plans fermented in her busy brain and ambitious mind, and the old tin kitchen in the garret held a slowly increasing pile of blotted manuscript, which was one day to place the name of March upon the roll of fame.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Meg flew to rescue Amy, and Beth to pacify Jo, but Jo was quite beside herself, and with a parting box on her sister's ear, she rushed out of the room up to the old sofa in the garret, and finished her fight alone.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
With a few interruptions, they had kept this up for a year, and met every Saturday evening in the big garret, on which occasions the ceremonies were as follows: Three chairs were arranged in a row before a table on which was a lamp, also four white badges, with a big 'P.C.' in different colors on each, and the weekly newspaper called, The Pickwick Portfolio, to which all contributed something, while Jo, who reveled in pens and ink, was the editor.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The little girls, however, considered it a most agreeable and interesting event, and Jo got little comfort from them, so she went up to her refuge in the garret, and confided her troubles to the rats.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Up in the garret, where Jo's unquiet wanderings ended stood four little wooden chests in a row, each marked with its owners name, and each filled with relics of the childhood and girlhood ended now for all.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
