Definition of garretnext
as in loft
a room or unfinished space directly beneath the roof of a building bought a charming Victorian house with a garret that she hoped to turn into a writing room

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Recent Examples of garret About 10 years ago, Louboutin bought more garrets next to his apartment. Dana Thomas, Architectural Digest, 12 Mar. 2026 One of Blake’s disciples was a young Welsh writer who arrived in London in the 1880s and took a job trawling through a garret full of old occult books, writing descriptions for a publisher’s catalogue. Hari Kunzru, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026 Gives himself entirely to the race, shoots like a phantom up through the opening and then stands panting in the garret, completely motionless, while his eyes become accustomed to the change of light. Literary Hub, 10 Nov. 2025 As anyone who has spent time living in a Parisian garret will tell you, the romantic notion of it dies pretty quickly, especially during a sweltering summer or a teeth-chattering winter. Tobias Grey, airmail.news, 13 July 2024 See All Example Sentences for garret
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Noun
  • The second floor was rented to a series of young men, including a DJ, who used the 2,250-square-foot loft to his advantage.
    Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Comella paid his fare at Canal Street — the driver would go no farther — and walked south on west Broadway, a thoroughfare of million-dollar lofts, to a point three blocks from the Trade Center.
    Peter Wilkinson, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • The floor plan included a fireplace, an attic, a basement with an outside entrance, a main level bedroom and full bathroom, as well as upper-level bedrooms and bathrooms.
    Michele Lerner, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2026
  • So told him about how my right-hand man’s mom caught me 168 kilos in the attic.
    Jeff Weiss, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2026

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“Garret.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/garret. Accessed 18 Sep. 2026.

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