casern

From French caserne, attested since the late 1600s. Compare kasern.

• IPA^(key): /kəˈzɝn/, /kəˈsɝn/^[1][2]

casern (plural caserns)

1. A lodging for soldiers in a garrison town (formerly usually near the rampart); a barracks.

• caserne, cazern, cazerne

• “casern”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “casern”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• Carnes, Casner, Cernas, Creans, Rances, caners, cranes, cranse, nacres, rances, recans, rescan

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑː.sern/, [ˈkɑː.zerˠn]

cāsern f

1. alternative form of cāseren