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way-station

way-station is the alternative form of way station.

Meaning of way station

Noun

way station (plural way stations)

  1. A small railway station between the principal stations or a station where the train stops only on a signal.
  2. (figuratively) A service area or temporary lodging used during a longer journey.
    • At one of the way-stations on his long journey a barmaid at a tavern speaks to Gilgamesh and tries to give him common sense on the human condition.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 201

Forms of way-station

pluralway-stations

Questions about way-station

What is way-station the alternative form of?
Way-station is the alternative form of way station.

Words near way-station in the dictionary

  1. way-finding
  2. way-going
  3. way-out
  4. way-sliding
  5. way-slidings
  6. way-station
  7. way-stations
  8. way-traffic
  9. way-train
  10. way-trains
  11. way-wise

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