garrison

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Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
11
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈɡæɹ.ɪ.sən/
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/ˈɡæɹ.ɪ.sən/ · /ˈɡɛɹ.ə.sən/ · /ˈɡæɹɪ.sən/ · /ˈɡɛɹɪ.sən/

Definition of garrison

20 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A permanent military post.
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noun

  1. A permanent military post.
  2. The troops stationed at such a post.
    “My Lord the great Commander of the worlde, […] Hath now in armes ten thouſand Ianiſaries, […] And for the expedition of this war, If he thinke good, can from his garriſons, UUithdraw as many more to follow him.”
    “For a time, it was the only Royalist stronghold between London and Exeter, but it fell at last when a member of the garrison turned traitor and admitted the Parliamentary besiegers who destroyed it with gunpowder.”
  3. Occupants.
    ““I came down like a wolf on the fold, didn’t I ? Why didn’t I telephone ? Strategy, my dear boy, strategy. This is a surprise attack, and I’d no wish that the garrison, forewarned, should escape. …””
  4. (Space-Force, US)A military unit, nominally headed by a colonel, equivalent to a USAF support wing, or an army regiment.

verb

  1. To assign troops to a military post.
    “Nor was he content with thus strongly garrisoning the fort, but he likewise added exceedingly to its strength by furnishing it with a formidable battery of quaker guns—rearing a stupendous flag-staff in the centre which overtopped the whole city—and moreover by building a great windmill on one of the bastions.”
  2. To convert into a military fort.
  3. To occupy with troops.
    “'Establishing a land bridge through Mariupol to Crimea would take tens of thousands of troops. So would garrisoning eastern Ukraine.', http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21615605-now-willing-use-russian-troops-more-or-less-openly-eastern-ukraine-vladimir-putin-has”

name

  1. (countable, uncountable)A surname.
  2. (countable, uncountable)A village in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.
  3. (countable, uncountable)A city in Benton County, Iowa.
  4. (countable, uncountable)An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Lewis County, Kentucky.
  5. (countable, uncountable)A census-designated place in Baltimore County, Maryland.
  6. (countable, uncountable)A city in Crow Wing County, Minnesota.
  7. (countable, uncountable)An unincorporated community in Christian County, Missouri.
  8. (countable, uncountable)A census-designated place in Powell County, Montana.
  9. (countable, uncountable)A village in Butler County, Nebraska.
  10. (countable, uncountable)A hamlet in Putnam County, New York.
  11. (countable, uncountable)A small city in McLean County, North Dakota.
  12. (countable, uncountable)A small city in Nacogdoches County, Texas.
  13. (countable, uncountable)An unincorporated community in Millard County, Utah.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Middle English garisoun, garysoun, from Old French garison, guarison, from guarir + -ison, ultimately of Germanic origin; thus a doublet of warison. Compare guard, ward; the modern meaning is influenced by (now obsolete) garnison.

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