garrison

1. 1.

   station (troops) in a fort or garrison

   Broaderstation

Other forms of garrison

plural

garrisons·

past tense

garrisonned·

present participle

garrisonning·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about garrison

What does garrison mean?

garrison means "a fortified military post where troops are stationed". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in garrison?

garrison has 3 syllables: gar-ri-son. The stress falls on "gar". In IPA it is /ˈɡæɹɪsən/.

What is another word for garrison?

Close synonyms include fort, William Lloyd Garrison. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is garrison a common word?

garrison is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.