railway station
railway station noun: a place where trains stop for passengers to embark and disembark.
Noun
railway station (plural railway stations)
- A place where trains stop for passengers to embark and disembark.
- I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified at such...1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
- ‘Then, spare me days, a young town started to rise up all round the railway-station.’1911, ‘Steel Rudd’, The Book of Dan, Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, published 1970, page 97
- Synonyms:
- railroad station, train station
railway station meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
railway station in Hindi
- place where trains stop
- रेलवे स्टेशन relve sṭeśan, ट्रेन स्टेशन ṭren sṭeśan
railway station in Tamil
- இருப்புவழி நிலையம், தொடர்வண்டி நிலையம், புகையிரத நிலையம்
railway station in Urdu
- place where trains stop
- ریلْوے اِسْٹیشَن relve isṭeśan, راہ آہَنِ اِیسْتْگاہ rāh āhan-i īstgāh
railway station in Bengali
- place where trains stop
- রেলওয়ে স্টেশন relōẇe sṭeśon, ট্রেন স্টেশন ṭren sṭeśon
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- railway station in Gujarati
- રેલવે સ્ટેશન relve sṭeśan
- railway station in Pashto
- د اورګاډي تمځای də orgāḍí tamźāy, د اورګاډي سټېشن də orgāḍí sṭéšan
- railway station in Arabic
- مَحَطَّة السِّكَك الْحَدِيدِيَّة maḥaṭṭat as-sikak al-ḥadīdiyya, مَحَطَّة maḥaṭṭa, مَحَطَّة قِطَار maḥaṭṭat qiṭār
- railway station in Malay
- stesen kereta api
- railway station in Indonesian
- stasiun kereta api
- railway station in Thai
- สถานีรถไฟ sà-tǎa-nii rót-fai, สถานี sà-tǎa-nii
- railway station in Vietnamese
- nhà ga, nhà ga hành khách, ga, bến tàu hỏa
- railway station in Myanmar
- ဘူတာရုံ bhutarum
Examples of railway station in a sentence
- I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company...
- In conclusion, I would remark that the great railway stations of London deserve to be visited every whit as much as St.1944 July and August, “London Railway Stations in 1893”, in Railway Magazine, page 201, taken from The English Illustrated Magazine of June...
Synonyms of railway station
Forms of railway station
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Questions about railway station
- What does railway station mean?
- Railway station means a place where trains stop for passengers to embark and disembark.
- What is railway station in Hindi?
- Railway station in Hindi is रेलवे स्टेशन (relve sṭeśan), ट्रेन स्टेशन (ṭren sṭeśan). See Railway station meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use railway station in a sentence?
- I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station.
- What part of speech is railway station?
- Railway station is a noun.
- What is the plural of railway station?
- The plural of railway station is railway stations.
Words near railway station in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: railway station (page history and authors); railway station (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); રેલવે સ્ટેશન (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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