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stationmasters

stationmasters is the plural of stationmaster.

Meaning of stationmaster

Noun

stationmaster (plural stationmasters)

  1. The person in charge of a railroad station, usually an employee of a particular railroad by which the station is owned, but sometimes an employee of a separate corporation, such as one owning a station used by two or more railroads.
    • The glare, the flies, while they waited, and he and the stationmaster put their heads together over the time-table, trying to find this other train, which, of course, they wouldn't catch.1920, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “The Escape”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 273

Questions about stationmasters

What is stationmasters the plural of?
Stationmasters is the plural of stationmaster.

Words near stationmasters in the dictionary

  1. stationings
  2. stationkeeping
  3. stationless
  4. stationlike
  5. stationmaster
  6. stationmasters
  7. stationmastership
  8. stationmasterships
  9. stationmistress
  10. stationmistresses
  11. stations

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