Garrison Definition

gărĭ-sən
garrisoned, garrisons
noun
garrisons
A fortified place with troops, guns, etc.; military post or station.
Webster's New World
Troops stationed in a fort or fortified place.
Webster's New World
(allusive) Occupants.
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verb
garrisoned, garrisons
To station troops in (a fortified place) for its defense.
Webster's New World
To place (troops) on duty in a garrison.
Webster's New World
To supply (a post) with troops.
American Heritage
To occupy and control by sending troops into.
Webster's New World

To convert into a military fort.

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Other Word Forms of Garrison

Noun

Singular:
garrison
Plural:
garrisons

Origin of Garrison

  • Middle English garison fortified place from Old French from garir to defend of Germanic origin wer-4 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Old French garison, guarison, from Frankish, ultimately of Germanic origin; compare guard, ward.

    From Wiktionary

Garrison Sentence Examples

  • The harbour is protected by forts and there is a garrison in the town.

  • They were naval or military officers in command of the garrison, the convicts and the few free settlers.

  • At Makall, however, he left a small garrison in the fort, which on the 7th of January 1896 was invested by the Abyssinian army.

  • In addition to this there is compulsory service in the National Guard (a) in the first class, consisting of men between seventeen and thirty years of age, liable for service with the standing army, and numbering some 15,000; (b) in the second class, for departmental service only, except in so far as it may be drawn upon to make up losses in the more active units in time of war, consisting of men from thirty to forty-five years of age, and (c) in the third class, for local garrison duty, consisting of men between forty-five and sixty years old.

  • Gemina against the Welsh hill-tribes, its garrison was soon removed and it became a flourishing town with stately town hall, baths and other appurtenances of a thoroughly civilized and Romanized city.

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Words Starting With

GGAGAR

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NONSON

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