how to pronounce garrison

/ˈɡæɹ.ɪ.sən/

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garrison is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of garrison in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… the garrison at Aldershot and we wish …”

meanings of garrison

name:

A census-designated place in Powell County, Montana.
A city in Crow Wing County, Minnesota.
A village in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.
An unincorporated community in Christian County, Missouri.
A surname.
A village in Butler County, Nebraska.
A city in Benton County, Iowa.
An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Lewis County, Kentucky.
A hamlet in Putnam County, New York.
A small city in McLean County, North Dakota.
A census-designated place in Baltimore County, Maryland.
An unincorporated community in Millard County, Utah.
A small city in Nacogdoches County, Texas.

noun:

A military unit, nominally headed by a colonel, equivalent to a USAF support wing, or an army regiment.
A permanent military post.
The troops stationed at such a post.
Occupants.

verb:

To occupy with troops.
To assign troops to a military post.
To convert into a military fort.

garrison frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word garrison occurs in english on average 5.1 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics garrison can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that garrison can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) leisure and entertainment;

3) people, society, and culture;

4) transport and travel;