garrison

See also: Garrison

English

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.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɡæɹɪsən/
(Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɛɹɪsən/
Audio (US-merged) (file)

Noun

garrison (plural garrisons)

A permanent military post.
The troops stationed at such a post.
- c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, OCLC 932920499; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:
  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.
(allusive) Occupants.
- 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad‎:
  “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. …”
(US, military, U.S. Space Force) A military unit, nominally headed by a colonel, equivalent to a USAF support wing, or an army regiment.

Synonyms

(USSF): delta (an operations wing equivalent)

Derived terms

garrison belt
garrison town

Translations

post

Arabic: حَامِيَة‎ f (ḥāmiya)
Armenian: կայազոր (hy) (kayazor)
Belarusian: гарнізо́н m (harnizón)
Bulgarian: гарнизо́н m (garnizón)
Catalan: guarnició (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 駐軍／驻军 (zh) (zhùjūn), 衛戍部隊／卫戍部队 (wèishù bùduì), 衛戍地／卫戍地 (wèishùdì)
Czech: posádka (cs) f, garnizón (cs) m, garnizóna (cs) f, garnizona f
Danish: garnison c
Dutch: garnizoen (nl) n
Estonian: garnison
Finnish: varuskunta (fi)
French: garnison (fr) f
Georgian: გარნიზონი (garnizoni)
German: Standort (de) m, Garnison (de) f
Greek: φρουρά (el) f (frourá)
Ancient: φρούριον n (phroúrion)
Hebrew: חֵיל מַצָּב‎ (he) m (khil matsáv)
Hungarian: helyőrség (hu)
Italian: guarnigione (it) f, caserma (it) f
Japanese: 駐屯地 (ちゅうとんち, chūtonchi)
Korean: 주둔지(駐屯地) (judunji)
Latin: praesidium (la) n
Latvian: garnizons m
Lithuanian: įgula f, garnizonas m
Macedonian: гарнизо́н m (garnizón)
Middle English: garnisoun
Norwegian:
Bokmål: garnison m
Persian: پادگان‎ (fa) (pâdegân), ساخلو‎ (fa) (sâxlo)
Polish: garnizon (pl) m, koszary (pl) f pl
Portuguese: guarnição (pt) f, caserna (pt) f
Romanian: garnizoană (ro) f
Russian: гарнизо́н (ru) m (garnizón)
Scottish Gaelic: gearastan m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: гарнѝзо̄н m
Roman: garnìzōn (sh) m
Slovak: posádka f
Slovene: garnizon m, garnizija f
Spanish: guarnición (es) f
Swedish: garnison (sv) c
Turkish: garnizon (tr)
Ukrainian: гарнізо́н m (harnizón)
Uzbek: garnizon (uz)

troops

Armenian: կայազոր (hy) (kayazor)
Belarusian: гарнізо́н m (harnizón)
Bulgarian: гарнизо́н m (garnizón)
Catalan: guarnició (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: varuskunta (fi)
Georgian: გარნიზონი (garnizoni)
Greek:
Ancient: φρουρά f (phrourá)
Italian: guarnigione (it) f
Middle English: garnisoun
Polish: garnizon (pl) m
Portuguese: guarnição (pt) f
Russian: гарнизо́н (ru) m (garnizón)
Scottish Gaelic: freiceadan m
Spanish: guarnición (es) f
Vietnamese: quân đồn trú
Ukrainian: гарнізо́н m (harnizón)

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Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} garnizono
French: ^{(please verify)} garnison (fr) f
German: ^{(please verify)} Standort (de) m (Germany), ^{(please verify)} Garnison (de) f (Austria, Switzerland)
Hungarian: ^{(please verify)} helyőrség (hu), ^{(please verify)} garnizon (hu)
Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} garnisun (id)
Norman: ^{(please verify)} dgèrnison f (Jersey)

Verb

garrison (third-person singular simple present garrisons, present participle garrisoning, simple past and past participle garrisoned)

To assign troops to a military post.
To convert into a military fort.
To occupy with troops.
- 'Establishing a land bridge through Mariupol to Crimea would take tens of thousands of troops. So would garrisoning eastern Ukraine.', http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21615605-now-willing-use-russian-troops-more-or-less-openly-eastern-ukraine-vladimir-putin-has

Related terms

garment
garnish

Translations

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Spanish: ^{(please verify)} apostar (es)

Anagrams

arrosing, roarings

Jamaican Creole

Etymology

Semantic shift of English garrison.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɡʲaɹɪsən/
Hyphenation: ga‧rri‧son

Noun

garrison (plural: garrison dem or garrisons dem, quantified: garrison)

A de facto autonomous district controlled by a don and the don's armed gang, typically loyal to a political party; a favela; a slum.
- 2005, Don Barker, The Fear Factor: an Analysis of Crime in Jamaica and the Search for Solutions‎ (in English), →ISBN, page 11:
  “The gang structure was deliberately organized during the seventies to defend partisan poltiical turf. Whole sections of the capital city of Kingston and other large towns became what are called "garrison" communities. A garrison community is a poor, inner city area sometimes naturally divided by a geographic item such as an open drainage sewer (called "gully" in Jamaica e.g. "McGregor Gully") or sometimes arbitrarily. […] ”
Di yute dem nuh stop buss dem matic an' block road inna di garrison.
The young men are constantly firing their semi-automatic rifles and blocking streets in the gang-controlled slums.