Garrison

Quick meaning: Garrison is a noun meaning A permanent military post.

Meaning

A permanent military post.

More Meanings

1. The troops stationed at such a post.
2. (allusive) Occupants.
3. (US, military, U.S. Space Force) A military unit, nominally headed by a colonel, equivalent to a USAF support wing, or an army regiment.
4. To assign troops to a military post.
5. To convert into a military fort.
6. To occupy with troops.

Example Sentences

“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. …”

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.

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.

Word Forms

• garrisons
• garrisoning
• garrisoned

Synonyms for garrison

Depending on context, synonyms include delta, fort.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fort, casern, barracks, stationing, patrol, forces.

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