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Definition: GARRISONED |
GARRISONEDImperative & past participle1. Of Garrison |
Date "GARRISONED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1732. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Inhabitant | In the occupation of; garrisoned by, occupied by. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He was confirmed in this severity by the opportunities for corruption that abounded in M__ sur M__, it being a garrisoned city. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "GARRISONED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 64.29% of the time. "GARRISONED" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 64.29% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 35.71% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 14 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "GARRISONED": garrisoned by. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "GARRISONED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Japanese Kanji | 駐留部隊 (garrisoned forces), 防人 (soldiers garrisoned at strategic posts in Kyushu in ancient times). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | さきもり (soldiers garrisoned at strategic posts in Kyushu in ancient times), ちゅうりゅうぶたい (garrisoned forces). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | arrisonedgay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"GARRISONED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Garisenda. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "GARRISONED" (pronounced ga"rusund) |
| 5 | -u s u n d | jettisoned. |
| 4 | -s u n d | chastened, christened, fastened, glistened, hastened, lessened, listened, loosened, moistened, rechristened, worsened. |
| 3 | -u n d | abandoned, aforementioned, aland, almond, apportioned, auctioned, auditioned, awakened, bargained, beckoned, blackened, bludgeoned, brightened, broadened, burdened, burgeoned, buttoned, captioned, cautioned, championed, cheapened, chickened, commissioned, conditioned, cordoned, cottoned, cushioned, dampened, darkened, decommissioned, deepened, destined, determined, diamond, dimensioned, disciplined, disheartened, disillusioned, dockland, Eland, emblazoned, emboldened, engined, enlightened, enlivened, envisioned, errand, evened, examined, fashioned, fattened, flattened, frightened, functioned, gardened, Garland, happened, hardened, heartened, heightened, Highland, Holland, husband, illumined, imagined, impassioned, imprisoned, island, leavened, legend, lengthened, ligand, lightened, likened, livened, malfunctioned, margined, mentioned, millisecond, moribund, motioned, nanosecond, Norland, occasioned, opened, optioned, orphaned, Osmund, overburdened, pardoned, partitioned, petitioned, poisoned, positioned, predestined, predetermined, prisoned, proportioned, propositioned, questioned, quickened, rationed, reasoned, reawakened, reckoned, reconditioned, reexamined, reopened, repositioned, requisitioned, Reverend, ripened, ruined, saddened, sanctioned, seasoned, second, sectioned, sharpened, Shetland, shortened, sickened, siphoned, slackened, softened, soland, stationed, steepened, stiffened, stipend, straightened, strengthened, summoned, sweetened, thickened, thousand, threatened, tightened, toughened, unburdened, unbuttoned, undetermined, unenlightened, unmentioned, unopened, unquestioned, unsanctioned, upland, vacationed, weakened, widened, wizened. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-i-n-o-r-r-s" | |
-1 letter: grandiose, grandsire, ordainers, organdies, organised, organiser, reordains. | |
-2 letters: adorners, agonised, aneroids, deraigns, diagnose, drainers, earrings, garrison, gradines, grainers, grandsir, grinders, groaners, ignorers, indorser, negroids, orangier, ordainer, ordering, organdie, organise, readings, readorns, regrinds, reordain, roarings, serranid. | |
-3 letters: adorers, adoring, adorner, agonies, agonise, aneroid, angrier, dangers, darings, darners, deraign, dineros, dingers, dingoes, dogears, dragons, drainer, droners, drosera, earings, earring, engirds, erasing, erasion, eringos, eroding, errands, gainers, ganders, ganoids, gardens, garners, garrons, girders, gnarred, gorsier, graders, gradine, gradins, grained, grainer, grander, grinder, groaned, groaner, grodier, groined, ignored, ignorer, ignores, indorse, inroads, ironers, negroid, onagers, oranges, ordains, ordines, origans, raiders, randier, randies, rangers, rangier, reading, readorn, reagins, rearing, redoing, regains, regards, reginas, regions, regrind, ringers, roadies, roaring, rosined, sadiron, sandier, sardine, searing, seringa, serrano, sierran, signora, signore, soaring, sordine. | |
-4 letters: adonis, adorer, adores, adorns, agones, aiders, airers, angers, anodes, ardors, argons, arider, ariose, arisen, aroids, arseno, arsine, arsino, dagoes, danger, danios, darers, daring, darner, deairs, deigns, denari, denars, derris, design, dinars, dinero, diners, dinger, dinges, dirges, dogear, dogies, doings, dongas, donsie, dories, dorser, dosage, dosing, dragon, drains, drears, driers, droner, drones, earing, easing, engird, eringo, errand, erring, gained, gainer, gander, ganoid, garden, garner, garred, garron, genoas, genros, geoids, girder, girned, girons, gnarrs, gonads, goners, gorier, grader, grades, gradin, grains, grands, grides, grinds, grison, groans, groins, ignore, inroad, irades, ironed, ironer, irones, nadirs, noised, norias, nosier, oaring, onager, onagri, onside, orange, orangs, ordain, orders, oreads, organs, orgies, origan, radios, radons, raider, rained, raised, raiser, ranged, ranger, ranges, ranids, raring, rasing, reagin, reason, redans, redias, reding, redons, regain, regard, regina, region, reigns, renigs, rerigs, resaid, resign, riders, ridges, rigors, ringed, ringer, rinsed, rinser, roadie, roared, rogers, rosier, rosing, sagier, sained, sander, sanger, sarode, sarong, seadog, senior, senora, sering, sierra, signed, signer, signor, singed, singer, sirdar, snared, snarer, snider, snored, snorer, soared, soarer, soigne, sonder, soring, sorned, sorner. | |
-5 letters: adios, adore, adorn, aegis, aeons, agers, agios, agone, agons, aider, aides, aired, airer, airns, anger, anise, anode, ardor, argon, arise, aroid, arose, arris, arson, aside, dagos, dangs, danio, darer, dares, darns, deair, deans, dears, degas, deign, denar, dinar, diner, dines, dinge, dingo, dings, direr, dirge, doers, doges, dogie, doing, donas, donga, dongs, dorrs, dorsa, doser, drags, drain, drear, dregs, drier, dries, drone, earns, egads, eidos, eosin, gadis, gains, garni, gears, genoa, genro, geoid, girds, girns, giron, giros, gnarr, gnars, goads, goers, gonad, goner, gonia, gored, gores, gorse, grade, grads, grain, grand, grans, gride, grids, grind, grins, groan, groin, ideas, irade, irone, irons, nadir. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-g-i-n-o-r-r-s" | |
+1 letter: denigrators. | |
+2 letters: fingerboards, gormandizers. | |
+3 letters: digressionary, disintegrator, granodiorites, overspreading. | |
+4 letters: disintegrators, overpersuading, propagandizers, rebroadcasting, transmogrified. | |
+5 letters: intergradations, overadvertising, redintegrations, retrogradations. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 41 52 52 49 53 4F 4E 45 44 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .- .-. .-. .. ... --- -. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01000001 01010010 01010010 01001001 01010011 01001111 01001110 01000101 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G A R R I S O N E D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0041 0052 0052 0049 0053 004F 004E 0045 0044 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)41355252435349483938 |
| 1. Definition 2. Quotations: Fiction 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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