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way stations

way stations is the plural 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

Questions about way stations

What is way stations the plural of?
Way stations is the plural of way station.

Words near way stations in the dictionary

  1. way out of a paper bag
  2. way out of a wet paper bag
  3. way passenger
  4. way passengers
  5. way station
  6. way stations
  7. way thistle
  8. way thistles
  9. way to
  10. way to go
  11. way to run a railroad

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