garrison
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Definition of garrison
20 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- A permanent military post.
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noun
- A permanent military post.
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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.”
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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. …””
- (Space-Force, US)A military unit, nominally headed by a colonel, equivalent to a USAF support wing, or an army regiment.
verb
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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.”
- To convert into a military fort.
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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
- (countable, uncountable)A surname.
- (countable, uncountable)A village in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.
- (countable, uncountable)A city in Benton County, Iowa.
- (countable, uncountable)An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Lewis County, Kentucky.
- (countable, uncountable)A census-designated place in Baltimore County, Maryland.
- (countable, uncountable)A city in Crow Wing County, Minnesota.
- (countable, uncountable)An unincorporated community in Christian County, Missouri.
- (countable, uncountable)A census-designated place in Powell County, Montana.
- (countable, uncountable)A village in Butler County, Nebraska.
- (countable, uncountable)A hamlet in Putnam County, New York.
- (countable, uncountable)A small city in McLean County, North Dakota.
- (countable, uncountable)A small city in Nacogdoches County, Texas.
- (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.
Words you can make from garrison
187 playable · top: ROARINGS (9 pts)
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22 words5-letter words
44 words- AGIOS 6 pts
- AGONS 6 pts
- AGROS 6 pts
- ARGON 6 pts
- GAINS 6 pts
- GARNI 6 pts
- GIRNS 6 pts
- GIRON 6 pts
- GIROS 6 pts
- GNARR 6 pts
- GNARS 6 pts
- GONIA 6 pts
- GRAIN 6 pts
- GRANS 6 pts
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- ORANG 6 pts
- ORGAN 6 pts
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- RIGOR 6 pts
- RINGS 6 pts
- SARGO 6 pts
- SIGNA 6 pts
- AIRNS 5 pts
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- RAINS 5 pts
- RANIS 5 pts
- ROANS 5 pts
- ROARS 5 pts
- ROSIN 5 pts
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4-letter words
56 words- AGIN 5 pts
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- GAIN 5 pts
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- GINS 5 pts
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- GNAR 5 pts
- GOAS 5 pts
- GRAN 5 pts
- GRIN 5 pts
- NAGS 5 pts
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- ORGS 5 pts
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- RIGS 5 pts
- RING 5 pts
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3-letter words
42 words- AGO 4 pts
- AGS 4 pts
- GAN 4 pts
- GAR 4 pts
- GAS 4 pts
- GIN 4 pts
- GIS 4 pts
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- GOR 4 pts
- GOS 4 pts
- GRR 4 pts
- NAG 4 pts
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- ORG 4 pts
- RAG 4 pts
- RIG 4 pts
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- RAS 3 pts
- RIA 3 pts
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- SIN 3 pts
- SIR 3 pts
- SON 3 pts
- SRI 3 pts
2-letter words
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