station
/ˈsteɪʃən/
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South Asia/(ɪ)ʂʈeːʃən/
station noun: a regular stopping place for ground transportation.
Noun
station (plural stations)
- A regular stopping place for ground transportation.
- The next station is Esperanza.
- A ground transportation depot.
- It's right across from the bus station.
- A place where one stands or stays or is assigned to stand or stay.
- From my station at the front door, I greeted every visitor.
- All ships are on station, Admiral.
- A place where some object is provided.
- Collect a knife and fork from the cutlery station on the way to your table.
- A gas station, service station.
- Localities across New Jersey imposed curfews to prevent looting. In Monmouth, Ocean and other counties, people waited for hours for gasoline at the few stations that had electricity. Supermarket shelves were stripped bare.2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, New York Times, retrieved 31 Oct 2012
- An official building from which police or firefighters operate.
- The police station is opposite the fire station.
- A place where one performs a task or where one is on call to perform a task.
- The waitress was at her station preparing three checks.
- The station is part of a group of stations run by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
- A military base.
- She had a boyfriend at the station.
- The dynamic tests at Wildenrath use continuous test tracks built on the site of a former Royal Air Force station that was vacated after the end of the Cold War.2023 November 29, Philip Haigh, “New Piccadilly Line trains put to the test”, in RAIL, number 997, page 26
- Synonyms:
- base, military base
- A place used for broadcasting radio or television; the broadcasting entity itself.
- I used to work at a radio station.
- I used to listen to that radio station.
- Synonyms:
- channel
- A device communicating over a network; a host.
- An Econet network is made up of a number of stations.
- When entering a LOAD/SAVE/FORMAT, etc command you not only had to identify the destination of the data (ie, microdrive, network or RS232), but the number of the drive or station too.2012, Colin Woodcock, The ZX Spectrum on Your PC, page 16
- A very large sheep or cattle farm.
- There was movement at the station, for the word had passed around, / that the colt from old Regret had got away,1890, A. B. Paterson, The Man From Snowy River
- Tiring of sheep, he took work on cattle stations, mustering cattle on vast unfenced holdings, and looking for work ‘nigger-bossing’, or supervising Aboriginal station hands.1993, Kay Walsh, Joy W. Hooton, Dowker, L. O., entry in Australian Autobiographical Narratives: 1850-1900, page 69
- In British India, the place where the English officials of a district, or the officers of a garrison (not in a fortress) reside.
- It was my fate to commence my career in the medical service forty years ago in the presanitary days, long before the introduction of modern methods of diagnosis, at two of the most unhealthy stations in the whole of India — Bellary and Secunderabad.1881, International Congress of Medicine, Transactions of the 1st, 2nd, 4th-17th Congress, page 541
- When a man is absolutely alone in a Station he runs a certain risk of falling into evil ways.1889, Rudyard Kipling, “A Wayside Comedy”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 60
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- Any of the Stations of the Cross.
- The Roman Catholic fast of the fourth and sixth days of the week, Wednesday and Friday, in memory of the council which condemned Christ, and of his passion.
- A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers.
- So dyd Offa[…]Deuoutly to vysyte all the hole stacyons of the cytee of Rome.1513, Henry Bradshaw, The Life of Saint Werburge of Chester
- Standing; rank; position.
- She had ambitions beyond her station.
- The greater part have kept, I see, / Their station.1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
- A harbour or cove with a foreshore suitable for a facility to support nearby fishing.
- Any of a sequence of equally spaced points along a path.
- The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat.
- An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accommodation of a pump, tank, etc.
- Post assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform; sphere of duty or occupation; employment.
- Moreover, by spending this day [Sunday] in religious exercises, we acquire new strength and resolution to perform God's will in our several stations the week following.1704, Robert Nelson, A Companion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Church of England, New, Revised and Corrected edition, published 1837, page 18
- The position of the foetal head in relation to the distance from the ischial spines, measured in centimetres.
- The fact of standing still; motionlessness, stasis.
- […]the cross legs [are] moving or resting together, so that two are always in motion and two in station at the same time[…]1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.5
- The apparent standing still of a superior planet just before it begins or ends its retrograde motion.
- A calling station.
Verb
station (third-person singular simple present stations, present participle stationing, simple past and past participle stationed)
- To put in place to perform a task.
- The host stationed me at the front door to greet visitors.
- I was stationed on the pier.
- To put in place to perform military duty.
- They stationed me overseas just as fighting broke out.
- I was stationed at Fort Richie.
- To play in the manner of a calling station.
station meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
station in Hindi
- place where a vehicle may stop
- स्टेशन sṭeśan
- military base
- अड्डा aḍḍā
station in Tamil
- place where a vehicle may stop
- நிலையம் nilaiyam
station in Marathi
- place where a vehicle may stop
- स्थानक sthānak, स्टेशन sṭeśan
station in Urdu
- place where a vehicle may stop
- مُسْتَقَر mustaqar, اِیسْتْگاہ īstgāh, اِسْٹیشَن isṭeśan, اَڈّا aḍḍā
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- station in Bengali
- স্টেশন sṭeśon
- station in Telugu
- స్టేషన్ sṭēṣan
- station in Malayalam
- സ്റ്റേഷൻ sṟṟēṣaṉ
- station in Kannada
- ನಿಲ್ದಾಣ nildāṇa
- station in Punjabi
- ਸਟੇਸ਼ਨ sṭeśan, سٹیشَن sṭeśan
- station in Gujarati
- સ્ટેશન sṭeśan
- station in Odia
- ଷ୍ଟେସନ ṣṭesana
- station in Sanskrit
- स्थामन् sthā́man, स्थान sthā́na
- station in Sinhala
- ඉස්ටේසම isṭēsama
- station in Nepali
- स्टेसन, स्टेशन
- station in Pashto
- ټيسن ṭesan, سټېشن sṭešan, اېستګا estgā, تمځای tamźāy
- station in Tagalog
- estasyon, himpilan
- station in Arabic
- مَحَطَّة maḥaṭṭa, إِذَاعَة ʔiḏāʕa, مَحَطَّة إِذَاعِيَّة maḥaṭṭa ʔiḏāʕiyya
- station in Malay
- stesen, balai
- station in Indonesian
- stasiun
- station in Thai
- สถานี sà-tǎa-nii
- station in Vietnamese
- nhà ga, bến, trạm, ga
- station in Myanmar
- ဘူတာရုံ bhutarum, ကားဂိတ် ka:git
Examples of station in a sentence
- We give you ten minutes, to get to your stations.'1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Last Night”, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co....
- To the corner of Hamilton Place and Picadilly, and there stayed for a while, for it is a romantic station by night.1922, Michael Arlen, “Ep./1/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
- And they in France of the best rank and stationc. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies...
- Watchmen are stationed continuously at each end of the bridge, and the main spans are patrolled twice during the night.1950 March, H. A. Vallance, “On Foot Across the Forth Bridge”, in Railway Magazine, page 149:
Synonyms of station
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Forms of station
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | stations |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | stations |
| present participle | stationing |
| past participle | stationed |
| past | stationed |
Origin of station
From Middle English stacioun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman estation, from Latin statiōnem, accusative of statiō (“standing, post, job, position”), whence also Italian stazione. Doublet of stagione. Cognate with Ancient Greek ἵστημι (hístēmi), στάσις (stásis), Old English standan (whence English stand).
Words formed from station
- above one's station
- action stations
- aeronautical station
- aid station
- aircraft station
- baby-changing station
- baby changing station
- base station
- base station subsystem
- battle station
- battle stations
- Bedlington Station
- Benton Station
- bike station
- break-of-gauge station
- broadcast station
- bus station
- cable station
- calling station
- cattle station
- charging station
- clearing station
- coach station
- coaling station
- comfort station
- cooling station
- docking station
- dog station
- dressing station
- Earth station
- endstation
- Estcourt Station
- feeder station
- Ferryhill Station
- filling station
- fire station
- flag station
- fueling station
- fuelling station
- fuel station
- gasoline station
- gas station
- ghost station
- goods station
- ground station
- guard station
- Hart Station
- head station
- Heifer Station
- hill station
- hill-station
- Horse Station Creek
- Huntington Station
- hydrogen station
- infostation
- interstation
- intrastation
- jumpstation
- lactation station
- Lake Station
Phrases with station
- X station
- Old Station
- station car
- way station
- meal station
- Play Station
- pull station
- Reef Station
- station bill
- station chef
- station hand
- station time
112 more phrasesFewer phrases
- Station Town
- Udny Station
- work station
- zero station
- Davis Station
- light station
- metro station
- motor station
- power station
- radio station
- Ratho Station
- relay station
- sheep station
- space station
- station bills
- station break
- station chefs
- station hands
- station house
- station sedan
- station staff
- station wagon
- swing station
- total station
- train station
- union station
- weigh station
- Fallon Station
- Mawson Station
- mobile station
- out of station
- packet station
- petrol station
- police station
- postal station
- run of station
- Smiths Station
- social station
- station breaks
- station houses
- station sedans
- station staffs
- station staves
- station throat
- station wagons
- Uphall Station
- voting station
- College Station
- Convent Station
- Lemoore Station
- McMurdo Station
- mission station
- numbers station
- polling station
- pumping station
- railway station
- service station
- station pointer
- station throats
- storage station
- through station
- vehicle station
- warming station
- weather station
- whaling station
- gas station weed
- Neshanic Station
- PNR Station Site
- pony keg station
- railroad station
- station pointers
- terminal station
- listening station
- Rapid Ann Station
- recycling station
- satellite station
- urination station
- Zhongshan Station
- gas station heroin
- Perranwell Station
- station to station
- television station
- Whitehouse Station
- wind power station
- Micheldever Station
- Point Reyes Station
- Space Station Alpha
- Westminster Station
- White House Station
- Widdrington Station
- ocean station vessel
- pirate radio station
- Toolik Field Station
- Mediterranean Station
- nuclear power station
- ocean station vessels
- Space Station Freedom
- storage power station
- triangulation station
- meteorological station
- petrol filling station
- Port Jefferson Station
- base station subsystems
- fire alarm pull station
- trigonometrical station
- International Space Station
- Hutton Henry and Station Town
- how do I get to the bus station
- that train has left the station
- how do I get to the train station
- Widdrington Station and Stobswood
- that train has already left the station
Words that rhyme with station
- collation
- accommodation
- presentation
- derivation
- information
- modulation
- translation
- application
- fixation
- generation
- orientation
- citation
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- combination
- communication
- conjugation
- constellation
- determination
- elevation
- operation
- relation
- reservation
- alternation
- condensation
- conversation
- deviation
- excavation
- foliation
- formation
- foundation
- incarnation
- interpretation
- representation
- retardation
- speculation
- termination
- abbreviation
- adaptation
- articulation
- bifurcation
- concentration
- congregation
- declination
- degradation
- expectation
- extenuation
- gradation
- observation
- population
- preparation
- reconciliation
- rotation
- separation
- situation
- vexation
- vindication
- accumulation
- administration
- aggregation
- appropriation
- attenuation
Questions about station
- What does station mean?
- Station means a regular stopping place for ground transportation.
- What is station in Hindi?
- Station in Hindi is स्टेशन (sṭeśan), अड्डा (aḍḍā). See Station meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use station in a sentence?
- We give you ten minutes, to get to your stations.'
- What part of speech is station?
- Station can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce station?
- Station is pronounced /ˈsteɪʃən/.
- What is the plural of station?
- The plural of station is stations.
Words near station in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: station (page history and authors); स्थान (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); station (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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