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Definitions: Garrison |
GarrisonNoun1. 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. Verb1. Station in a fort or garrison, as of troops. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "garrison" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
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Bible | Garrison (1.) Heb. matstsab, a station; a place where one stands (1 Sam. 14:12); a military or fortified post (1 Sam. 13:23; 14:1, 4, 6, etc.). (2.) Heb. netsib, a prefect, superintendent; hence a military post (1 Sam. 10:5; 13:3, 4; 2 Sam. 8:6). This word has also been explained to denote a pillar set up to mark the Philistine conquest, or an officer appointed to collect taxes; but the idea of a military post seems to be the correct one. (3.) Heb. matstsebah, properly a monumental column; improperly rendered pl. "garrisons" in Ezek. 26:11; correctly in Revised Version "pillars," marg. "obelisks," probably an idolatrous image. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
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Synonym: GarrisonSynonym: fort (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Combatant | Army, corps d'armee, host, division, battalia, column, wing, detachment, garrison, flying column, brigade, regiment, corps, battalion, sotnia, squadron, company, platoon, battery, subdivision, section, squad; piquet, picket, guard, rank, file; legion, phalanx, cohort; cloud of skirmishers. |
Defense | Garrison, picket, piquet; defender, protector; guardian; (safety); bodyguard, champion; knight-errant, Paladin; propugner. |
Inhabitant | Garrison, crew; population; people; (mankind); colony, settlement; household; mir. |
Safety | Watchdog, bandog; Cerberus; watchman, patrolman, policeman; cop, dick, fuzz, smokey, peeler, zarp; sentinel, sentry, scout; (warning); garrison; guardship. |
Escort, convoy; garrison; watch, mount guard, patrol. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Garrison |
| English words defined with "garrison": Breastheight ♦ casern, Covered way ♦ Daniel Garrison Brinton, Degarnish, Degarnishment, Disgarrison ♦ Engarrison ♦ Field officer's court, Friction chocks ♦ garrison cap, Garrisoned, Garrisoning ♦ Heavy artillery ♦ In garrison ♦ Overgarrison ♦ Presidiary, Presidio ♦ Storeship ♦ To stick out ♦ William Lloyd Garrison. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "garrison": 10524 ♦ 25209 ♦ 41141 ♦ 52229, 56450, 59731 ♦ 65657, 68632 ♦ 75946 ♦ 84728 ♦ Heavy-armed Artillery ♦ Light-armed Artillery ♦ Melita ♦ Wexford Bridge Massacre. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "garrison": Mustahfiz. (references) |
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Screenplays | Good, because it would be unfortunate if I had to leave a garrison here. (Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back; writing credit: George Lucas; Leigh Brackett) He was a Centurion, in the Jeruselem Garrison. (Life of Brian; writing credit: Graham Chapman; John Cleese) You're not a bad-looking man, Mr. Garrison. When I get out, I'm gonna come visit you. Have some real fun! (JFK; writing credit: Jim Marrs; Jim Garrison) Garrison. Flag. (The Last Castle; writing credit: David Scarpa) Throw the switch, Mr. Garrison. (South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut; writing credit: Trey Parker; Matt Stone) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The JFK Conspiracy: The Case of Jim Garrison (1967) Garrison Follies (1940) Gun-Hand Garrison (1927) A Garrison Joke (1912) Mystery of the Garrison (1908) | |
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 | An old settler's shack in the San Juan Islands - at Garrison Bay State Park. Site of the old British fort.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Pit Curbs - Garrison, '35.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Daniel Garrison Brinton.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | [Daniel Garrison Brinton, M.D.].Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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William Lloyd Garrison | The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers. |
| Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as his. | |
| I am in earnest -- I will not equivocate -- I will not excuse --I will not retreat a single inch --and I will be heard! | |
| Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in the being, whatever may be the sex or the complexion. | |
| I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. | |
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The Emancipation Proclamation | 1862 | And I further declare and make known that such persons of suitable condition will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service. (Abraham Lincoln) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | She began to make coarse shirts for the soldiers of the garrison, and earned twelve sous a day. |
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Economic History | Cuba (09/01) | Cuban forces played a key role in Ethiopia's war against Somalia and remained there in substantial numbers as a garrison force for a decade. (references) |
Somalia | Following Italy's declaration of war on the United Kingdom in June 1940, Italian troops overran British Somaliland and drove out the British garrison. (references) | |
Czech Republic | A civilian uprising against the German garrison took place in Prague in May 1945. Following Germany's surrender, some 2.9 million ethnic Germans were expelled from Czechoslovakia with Allied approval under the Benes Decrees. (references) | |
Human Rights | Ukraine | According to human rights associations, garrison prosecutors often do not investigate complaints of physical harassment. (references) |
Armenia | A legal case against a fellow soldier was instituted under Article 100 of the Criminal Code for "premeditated murder," and was being investigated by the military garrison of the province of Gugark at year's end. (references) | |
Political Economy | Hong Kong | A Chinese People's Liberation Army garrison in Hong Kong has no responsibility for internal security. (references) |
Political Rights | Jamaica | During the 1997 general election campaign, both international and local observer groups concluded that, although the process was significantly less violent than recent election campaigns, problems persisted in the garrison communities. (references) |
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Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | A statement has been formed by the Secretary of War, on mature consideration, of all the posts and stations where garrisons will be expedient and of the number of men requisite for each garrison. |
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| "Garrison" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 87.73% of the time. "Garrison" is used about 440 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 87.73% | 386 | 14,302 |
| Noun (proper) | 9.77% | 43 | 52,181 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 2.27% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.23% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 440 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "garrison" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Garrison | Last name | 20,000 | 578 |
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1. Garrison, IA (city, FIPS 30000) 2. Garrison, KY 3. Garrison, MD (CDP, FIPS 31625) 4. Garrison, MN (city, FIPS 23192) 5. Garrison, MO 6. Garrison, MT 7. Garrison, ND (city, FIPS 29460) 8. Garrison, NE (village, FIPS 18300) 9. Garrison, NY 10. Garrison, TX (town, FIPS 29060) 11. Garrison, UT 12. Garrison, WV |
Expressions using "garrison": Daniel Garrison Brinton ♦ garrison cap ♦ garrison commander ♦ garrison duty officer ♦ garrison force ♦ garrison headquarters ♦ garrison station ♦ garrison town ♦ garrison troops ♦ In garrison ♦ William Lloyd Garrison. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "garrison": garrison-commander, garrison-commanders, garrison-point. | |
Ending with "garrison": half-garrison. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
garrison keillor | 228 |
garrison | 139 |
garrison minnesota | 99 |
garrison ny | 76 |
jim garrison | 74 |
william lloyd garrison | 72 |
garrison guitar | 61 |
garrison north dakota | 52 |
garrison keeler | 41 |
garrison keilor | 37 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "garrison"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaan | besetting (occupation). (various references) | |
Albanian | garnizon, vë trupa. (various references) | |
Arabic | موقع عسكري, قوات الحامية, حامية (escort, keen, plastron), أقام حامية. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | гарнизон, назначавам на служба в гарнизон, поставям гарнизон в. (various references) | |
Chinese | 警備 (guard), 戍 . (various references) | |
Czech | umístit posádku, posádka (crew). (various references) | |
Danish | garnison. (various references) | |
Dutch | garnizoen, bezetting (cast, crew, enrolment, load, occupation, occupation of a factory by workers, seizure, sit-in, tightness of the chest). (various references) | |
Esperanto | garnizono. (various references) | |
Farsi | پادگان (Presidio), مقیم کردن (Settle), مستقرکردن (Plant), ساخلو. (various references) | |
Finnish | varusväki, varuskunta, vartioväki (guard), linnaväki. (various references) | |
French | garnison. (various references) | |
German | garnison, besatzung (complement, crew, occupation, personnel). (various references) | |
Greek | φρουρά (guard, picket, watch), θέτω φρούραν. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מח " צבאי (barrack, cantonment), מצב (condition, fettle, occasion, position, post, shape, situation, stand, state, status), ישוב מרוחק (outpost), חיל "מצב. (various references) | |
Hungarian | várőrség, helyőrség (depletion, military station). (various references) | |
Indonesian | garnisun. (various references) | |
Italian | guarnigione. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 駐留 (stationing). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | けいびたい (guards), ちゅうりゅう (middle class, middle course, mid-stream, stationing), ちゅうと"ち, ち" い, えいへい (palace guard, picked troops, sentinel). (various references) | |
Manx | sidooryn (soldiery, troops), garrastan. (various references) | |
Norwegian | garnison. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | arrisongay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | guarnição (binding, border, braid, facing, fittings, fringe, furniture, garnish, garniture, gasket, lining, mourn, post, setting, trim, trimming). (various references) | |
Romanian | garnizoanã, pune în garnizoanã, forma (arise, compose, constitute, cultivate, educate, fashion, form, frame, knead, Mold, mould, organize, shape, train), cartirui. (various references) | |
Russian | гарнизон (post). (various references) | |
Scottish | gearasdan (a garrison, fort, in : <A NAME="An Gearasdan">An Gearasdan</A> pnm. Fort William; contraction). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | garnizon (post), uvesti vojsku. (various references) | |
Spanish | guarnición (curb, curbstone, edging, equipment, extruded kerb of coated materials, facing, garnish, garniture, guard, kerb, macedoine of vegetables, packing, trim, trimming). (various references) | |
Swedish | garnison (post), besättning (band, crew, drove, flock, herd, integral herd, onlay, stock, trimming). (various references) | |
Turkish | garnizonda görevlendirmek, garnizon kurmak, garnizon (garrison town, headquarters, post), askeri birlik. (various references) | |
Turkmen | garnizon (r). (various references) | |
Ukranian | ставити гарнізон, гарнізон (post), вводити війська. (various references) | |
Welsh | gwarchodlu (guards). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | praesidi, praesidia, praesidiaque, praesidiis, praesidio, praesidioque, praesidium, praesidium presidium. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | garison. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | 1 Samuel Chapter 13, Verse 23 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai exhlqen ex upostasewV twn allofulwn thn en tw peran macemaV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Egressa est autem statio Philisthim ut transcenderet in Machmas |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Forsothe the stacioun of Philistym wente out, for to stye ouer into aspijs to fiyt. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage of Michmash. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage of Michmash. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And the armed force of the Philistines went out to the narrow way of Michmash. |
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| Language | 1 Samuel Chapter 13, Verse 23 |
| Bulgarian | А филистимския гарнизон излезе към прохода Михмас. |
| Cebuano | Ug ang panon sa mga sundalo nga bantay sa kuta sa mga Filistehanon miadto sa alagianan sa Michmas. |
| Chinese | 非 利 士 人 的 一 隊 防 兵 、 到 了 密 抹 的 隘 口 。 |
| Croatian | A dotle jedna straža filistejska bijaše izišla prema klancu kod Mikmasa. |
| Danish | Filisternes Forpost rykkede frem til Mikmaspasset. |
| Dutch | En der Filistijnen leger toog naar den doortocht van Michmas. |
| Finnish | Mutta filistealaisten vartiosto lähti Mikmaan solatielle. |
| French | Un poste de Philistins vint s`établir au passage de Micmasch. |
| German | Und eine Wache der Philister zog heraus an den engen Weg von Michmas. |
| Haitian Creole | Moun Filisti yo voye yon ganizon al defann pas Mikmas la. |
| Hungarian | És a Filiszteusok elõõrse kijöve Mikmás szorosához. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Orang Filistin menempatkan sebuah pos penjagaan untuk mempertahankan sebuah sela gunung di Mikhmas. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Hata, maka kawal laskar orang Filistin sudah keluar, lalu pergi ke jurang Mikhmas. |
| Italian | Intanto una guarnigione di Filistei era uscita verso il passo di Micmas. |
| Korean | " 셋 사 람 의 부 대 가 나 와 서 믹 마 스 어 귀 에 이 르 " 라 |
| Maori | Na ka haere nga hoia pupuri a nga Pirihitini ki te whakawhitinga atu o Mikimaha. |
| Modern Greek | Η δε φρουρα των Φιλισταιων εξηλθε προς το περασμα Μιχμας. |
| Norwegian | Filistrenes forpost rykket frem til Mikmas-skaret. |
| Portuguese | E saiu a guarnição dos filisteus para o desfiladeiro de Micmás. |
| Rumanian | O ceatq de Filisteni a venit wi s`a awezat la trecqtoarea Micmawului. |
| Russian | й ЧЩЫЕМ ЕТЕ"ПЧПК ПФТС" жЙМЙУФЙНУЛЙК Л ЕТЕ ТБЧЕ нЙИНБУУЛПК. |
| Spanish | Después el destacamento de los filisteos se dirigió al paso de Micmas. |
| Swedish | Men filistéerna läto en utpost rycka fram till passet vid Mikmas. |
| Thai | และกองทหารรักษาการของคนฟีลิสเตียยกไปถึงทางที่ข้ามไปเมืองมิคมาช |
| Ukrainian | І вийшла филистимська залога до переходу Міхмашу. |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "garrison": garrisoned, garrisoning, garrisons. (additional references) | |
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"Garrison" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Agrion, Arrinson, arrison, Garisenda, garison, Garlieston, Garnikov, Garreton, Garrido, garrion, Garsin, garson, Garvison, Guarisco, Iarrasen, Iarreson. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "garrison" (pronounced ga"rusun) |
| 5 | -r u s u n | comparison. |
| 4 | -u s u n | diocesan, jettison, medicine, myosin, unison, venison. |
| 3 | -s u n | aflatoxin, angiotensin, antitoxin, arson, assassin, basin, bison, bolson, businessperson, capsaicin, chairperson, chasten, christen, claxon, congressperson, damson, delicatessen, dioxin, Dobson, ensign, fasten, Gibson, glisten, hasten, Hyson, keelson, kelson, layperson, lessen, lesson, listen, loosen, Mason, moisten, Nelson, newsperson, oxen, oxytocin, parson, person, rechristen, rhodopsin, salesperson, spokesperson, toxin, washbasin, weatherperson, worsen. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: roarings. | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-n-o-r-r-s" | |
-1 letter: garrons, origans, roaring, signora, soaring. | |
-2 letters: argons, arsino, garron, girons, gnarrs, grains, grison, groans, groins, norias, oaring, onagri, orangs, organs, origan, raring, rasing, rigors, rosing, sarong, signor, soring. | |
-3 letters: agios, agons, airns, argon, arris, arson, gains, garni, girns, giron, giros, gnarr, gnars, gonia, grain, grans, grins, groan, groin, irons, naris, noirs, noria, noris, orang, organ, ornis, orris, ragis, rains, ranis, rigor, rings, roans, roars, rosin, sarin, sirra, sonar. | |
-4 letters: agin, agio, agon, ains, airn, airs, anis, gain, gars, gins, girn, giro, gnar, goas, gran, grin, inro, ions, iron, nags, naoi, naos, nogs, noir, nori, oars, orra, osar, ragi, rags, rain, rang, rani, rias, rigs, ring, rins, roan, roar, sago, sain, sang, sari, sign, sing, snag, snog, soar, song, sora, sori, sorn. | |
-5 letters: ago, ain, air, ais, ani, ars, gan, gar, gas, gin, goa, gor, gos, ins, ion, nag, nog, nor, nos, oar, ons, ora, ors, rag, ran, ras, ria, rig, rin, sag, sin, sir, son, sri. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-n-o-r-r-s" | |
+1 letter: garrisons, grosgrain, organiser. | |
+2 letters: cairngorms, costarring, garrisoned, grosgrains, orangeries, organisers, organizers, rearousing. | |
+3 letters: arrogations, denigrators, fairgrounds, farraginous, forswearing, garrisoning, granivorous, integrators, irrigations, originators, programings, prostrating, reabsorbing, reassorting, reorganizes, springboard, surrogating. | |
+4 letters: barnstorming, corrugations, crossbarring, fingerboards, foreswearing, gormandizers, grandifloras, impregnators, inaugurators, interrobangs, interrogates, invigorators, loganberries, menorrhagias, overpraising, programmings, prorogations, railroadings, registration, remigrations, renographies, reorganizers, springboards, starboarding, superorganic, surfboarding, transforming, transmogrify, transporting. | |
+5 letters: argentiferous, brainstorming, digressionary, disintegrator, garnetiferous, graminivorous, granodiorites, iconographers, interrogatees, interrogators, introgressant, micromanagers, microorganism, misprograming, narratologies, narratologist, narrowcasting, neurosurgical, nongregarious, orchestrating, overasserting, overmastering, overorganizes, overspreading, overstraining, pornographies, progressional, reafforesting, regenerations, registrations, reinvigorates, remonstrating, reregulations, resegregation, sharecropping, storyboarding, subirrigation, superorganism, superregional, transgression, transmigrator, uranographies, warmongerings. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 61 72 72 69 73 6F 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .- .-. .-. .. ... --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01100001 01110010 01110010 01101001 01110011 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G a r r i s o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0061 0072 0072 0069 0073 006F 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4167848475858180 |
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