English hyphenation

Hyphenation of “garrison”

The standard US-English hyphenation shown for garrison is gar-ri-son, with 2 possible break points in this result.

US English hyphenation
gar-ri-son
3 segments2 break points
British English pattern result gar-ris-on The GB pattern set returns a different line-break pattern. Pattern differences are not automatically treated as a linguistic US/UK difference.
Wordgarrison
Hyphenationgar-ri-son
Break points2
Part of speechnoun · verb
Pronunciationˈɡarɪs(ə)n
Meaning & usage

What does “garrison” mean?

garrison: a group of troops stationed in a fortress or town to defend it.

Headwordgarrison
Part of speechnoun · verb
Pronunciationˈɡarɪs(ə)n
1
noun

a group of troops stationed in a fortress or town to defend it.

Example: “the entire garrison was mustered on the parade ground”

2
verb

provide (a place) with a group of troops.

Example: “air reconnaissance showed the Germans had not garrisoned the island”

Word breaks

How “garrison” is split

gar·ri·son

For US English, the hyphenation result is gar-ri-son. This gives 2 possible line-break points in the returned pattern. The British-English pattern set returns gar-ris-on.

Quick answers

Questions about “garrison”

How do you hyphenate “garrison”?

In the US-English result used here, garrison is hyphenated as gar-ri-son.

Where can “garrison” break at the end of a line?

The returned US pattern contains 2 possible break points.

What does “garrison” mean?

a group of troops stationed in a fortress or town to defend it.

Can you use “garrison” in a sentence?

“the entire garrison was mustered on the parade ground”

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