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dressing station

dressing station noun: a place where wounds are dressed.

Noun

dressing station (plural dressing stations)

  1. A place where wounds are dressed.
    • They were top-heavy, blunt-nosed ambulances, painted gray and built like moving-vans. […] Three others were up in the mountains at dressing stations.1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society, published 2008, page 23

Forms of dressing station

pluraldressing stations

Questions about dressing station

What does dressing station mean?
Dressing station means a place where wounds are dressed.
What part of speech is dressing station?
Dressing station is a noun.
What is the plural of dressing station?
The plural of dressing station is dressing stations.

Words near dressing station in the dictionary

  1. dressing out
  2. dressing room
  3. dressing rooms
  4. dressing sack
  5. dressing sacks
  6. dressing station
  7. dressing stations
  8. dressing stick
  9. dressing sticks
  10. dressing table
  11. dressing tables

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