GARRISON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Garrison mean? 

• GARRISON (noun)
  The noun GARRISON has 3 senses:

1. a fortified military post where troops are stationed

2. United States abolitionist who published an anti-slavery journal (1805-1879)

3. the troops who maintain and guard a fortified place

  Familiarity information: GARRISON used as a noun is uncommon.

• GARRISON (verb)
  The verb GARRISON has 1 sense:

1. station (troops) in a fort or garrison

  Familiarity information: GARRISON used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GARRISON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A fortified military post where troops are stationed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

fort; garrison

Hypernyms ("garrison" is a kind of...):

military post; post (military installation at which a body of troops is stationed)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Instance hyponyms:

Fort George G. Meade; Fort George Gordon Meade; Fort Meade (a United States Army base in Maryland; headquarters of the National Security Agency)

Derivation:

garrison (station (troops) in a fort or garrison)

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States abolitionist who published an anti-slavery journal (1805-1879)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Garrison; William Lloyd Garrison

Instance hypernyms:

abolitionist; emancipationist (a reformer who favors abolishing slavery)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The troops who maintain and guard a fortified place

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("garrison" is a kind of...):

military personnel; soldiery; troops (soldiers collectively)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Derivation:

garrison (station (troops) in a fort or garrison)

• GARRISON (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they garrison    ... he / she / it garrisons   
Past simple: garrisoned   
Past participle: garrisoned   
-ing form: garrisoning   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Station (troops) in a fort or garrison

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Hypernyms (to "garrison" is one way to...):

place; post; send; station (assign to a station)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

garrison (a fortified military post where troops are stationed)

garrison (the troops who maintain and guard a fortified place)

 Context examples 

He came, not to stop, but to join them; he was asked to go with them to the Garrison chapel, which was exactly what he had intended, and they all walked thither together.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

"This study reveals how environmental change can affect subtle ecosystem dynamics in kelp forests," said David Garrison, a program director in NSF's Division of Ocean Sciences.

(In search of an undersea kelp forest's missing nitrogen, National Science Foundation)

Against the bailey-walls were rows of frail wooden houses and leaning sheds, which gave shelter to the archers and men-at-arms who formed the garrison.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You wish us to keep this matter dark and to make a garrison of the stern part of the ship, manned with my friend's own people, and provided with all the arms and powder on board.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

All round, in the edge of the circle of the light, stood the castle servants, the soldiers who were to form the garrison, and little knots of women, who sobbed in their aprons and called shrilly to their name-saints to watch over the Wat, or Will, or Peterkin who had turned his hand to the work of war.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And it is as well that we can compose our differences honorably, for Sir Nigel had been out at the first clash of steel; and he hath sworn that if there be quarrelling in the garrison he would smite the right hand from the broilers.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)