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stationhouse

stationhouse is the alternative form of station house.

Meaning of station house

Noun

station house (plural station houses)

  1. (US) A structure or other area set aside for storage of fire-extinguishing equipment.
  2. (US) The headquarters of a police force or unit for a specific district; a police station.
    • The arrests, in morning raids in California, Florida and New York capped an investigation by San Francisco police into the murder of Sgt. John V. Young, who was killed by a shotgun at a desk in the Ingleside stationhouse on Aug. 29, 1971.2007 January 24, Jesse Mckinley, “8 Arrested in 1971 Killing of San Francisco Police Officer”, in New York Times
  3. A building serving as shelter at a railway station.
    • The station arrangements are modern, and a subway connects the platforms, but the station house is the standard of 60 years ago.1946 May and June, G. A. Sekon, “L.B.S.C.R. West Coast Section—3”, in Railway Magazine, page 149

Forms of stationhouse

pluralstationhouses

Questions about stationhouse

What is stationhouse the alternative form of?
Stationhouse is the alternative form of station house.

Words near stationhouse in the dictionary

  1. stationers
  2. stationers'
  3. stationery
  4. stationful
  5. stationfuls
  6. stationhouse
  7. stationhouses
  8. stationing
  9. stationings
  10. stationkeeping
  11. stationless

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stationhouse (page history and authors); station house (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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