garrison house

noun

Definition of garrison housenext
as in blockhouse

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Recent Examples of garrison house It is estimated that PLA garrison houses around 6,000 soldiers. — Helen Regan, CNN, 7 Oct. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for garrison house
  1. blockhouse
  2. bunker
  3. dugout
Noun
  • The kitchen had two notable features—a big cast-iron woodstove on which everything was cooked, and a dishwasher that stood up like a blockhouse, designed to receive trays two feet by two with wire-mesh bottoms and sides four inches high.
    — John McPhee, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Attempts by newsmen to get word from the Complex 34 blockhouse proved fruitless as pad personnel declined to supply information or page public information officials.
    — Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 Jan. 2026
Definition of blockhouse
Noun
  • The wind was so severe on the par-3 16th that his chip 7-iron to a front pin wound up going into a back bunker some 35 yards long.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Saxon testified that West planned to turn the luxury beachfront home, designed by prize-winning Japanese architect Tadao Ando, into an off-the-grid bunker.
    — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of bunker
Noun
  • Rays third baseman Junior Caminero screamed in the dugout after Milwaukee had rallied to tie the game.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026
  • An artillery crew soldier from the Separate Rifle Battalion of the National Police in the Zaporizhzhia region prepares shells for a 155-mm Bosnian M94 howitzer in a dugout during a combat mission in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on October 15, 2026.
    — Anastasiia Parafeniuk, NBC news, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of dugout

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“Garrison house.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/garrison%20house. Accessed 31 Oct. 2026.

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