Noun: garrison
| Singular | garrison |
| Plural | garrisons |
Sample Sentences
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My Lord the great Commander of the worlde, […]
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Hath now in armes ten thouſand Ianiſaries, […]
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And for the expedition of this war,
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If he thinke good, can from his garriſons,
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UUithdraw as many more to follow him. [c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:]
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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. [1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 134, about Corfe Castle:]
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“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. …” [1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:]
Nouns inflected like garrison
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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. See: Middle English Nouns '
garisoun'.
Verbs referencing "garrison"
English Nouns
garret.