phobia (Noun) An irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety, usually of or about something particular. I know someone with a strange phobia of ladders. Origin: c 1790, from words ending in -phobia, from ÏÏÎ²Î¿Ï. Compare ism, from -ism, itis, from -itis, and ana, from -ana.
Carriage houses and garage apartments are exactly the same thing - living quarters or additional space atop a garage. Carriage houses are simply the original version of the contemporary garage apartment, named for the mode of transportation of the day: the horse-drawn carriage.
Buildings. 1  Anglo-Irish big house. 2  Great house in Ireland, specifically houses of the Anglo-Irish ascendancy. 3  a type of longhouse among the cultures of the Pacific Northwest Coast.  Wharenui, a communal house of the MÄori people of New 1  Zealand. Prison, in American slang.