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# garrison

«garrison» in Mova's school dictionary: **A group of soldiers living in a town or fort to guard it** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a garrison, garrisons); verb (garrison, garrisons, garrisoned, garrisoning)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A group of soldiers living in a town or fort to guard it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garrison/#m1)

2) The fort, castle or town where these soldiers live. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garrison/#m2)

3) (verb) To put soldiers in a place to guard it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garrison/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons garrisons appear with castles, Roman forts on Hadrian's Wall, and towns during wars and sieges. In stories a garrison defends a fortress against attackers. Phrases: a garrison town, the garrison surrendered, to garrison a fort.

### examples

- The Romans kept a garrison at every fort along Hadrian's Wall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garrison/#x1)
- The castle's garrison held out for three months. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garrison/#x2)
- Gibraltar was a British garrison town for centuries. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garrison/#x3)
- The king garrisoned the town with 500 soldiers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garrison/#x4)
- When food ran out, the garrison surrendered. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garrison/#x5)
- A small garrison guarded the bridge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garrison/#x6)
- His proposals were gladly accepted, and in a moment the whole of the garrison sank down as if they were dead, and Virgilius himself had much ado to keep awake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garrison/#x7)

### note

Countable noun: a garrison, two garrisons. Verb past: garrisoned. Spelling: double r, single s. A garrison is a group; you do not say «a garrison» for one soldier.

### In the corpora

- [And Jonathan smote the garrison of the Philistines that was in Geba, and the Philistines heard of it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.303/)
- [And the garrison of the Philistines went out unto the pass of Michmas.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.326/)
- [Then David put garrisons in Aram of Damascus; and the Arameans became servants to David, and brought presents.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.214/)
- [And he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom put he garrisons, and all the Edomites became servants to David.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.223/)
- [And David was then in the stronghold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Beth-lehem.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.725/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «garrison» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garrison/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.