garret

n.
A room on the top floor of a house, typically under a pitched roof; an attic.

[Middle English, from Old French garite, watchtower, from garir, to defend, of Germanic origin.]

1. Space within a roof structure; sometimes called an attic.
2. A room, usually with sloping ceilings, just beneath the roof of a house.

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IN BRIEF: The room or place just under the slanting roof of a house.

Born in the garret, in the kitchen bred. — Lord Byron (1788-1824).

Tutor's tip: Note: A "garret" is an attic. A "garrot" is either a tourniquet or a kind of duck. "Garrote", "garote" and "garotte" are three ways of spelling a method of strangulation or the rope used in strangulation.

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage
  Synonyms: loft, attic

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - kvist, loftskammer

Nederlands (Dutch)
dakkamer, zolder

Français (French)
n. - mansarde

Deutsch (German)
n. - Dachkammer, Dachboden

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (αρχιτ.) σοφίτα

Italiano (Italian)
mansarda

Português (Portuguese)
n. - sótão (m), quarto (m) imediatamente debaixo do telhado

Русский (Russian)
мансарда, чердак

Español (Spanish)
n. - buhardilla, desván

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - vindskupa

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
阁楼, 头, 顶楼

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 閣樓, 頭, 頂樓

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 다락방, 머리

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 屋根裏部屋

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) عليه : حجرة تحت السقف‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮עליית-גג‬

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