Station Meaning and Definition

Word: Station

How to pronounce: steɪʃn

Noun

Definitions:

1. A regular stopping place on a public transportation route, especially one on a railroad line with a platform and often one or more buildings.

Example sentences: "We walked back to the station and caught the train back to Brussels"

2. A place or building where a specified activity or service is based.

Example sentences: "A research station in the rainforest"

3. A company involved in broadcasting of a specified kind.

Example sentences: "A radio station"

4. The place where someone or something stands or is placed on military or other duty.

Example sentences: "The lookout resumed his station in the bow"

5. A site at which a particular species, especially an interesting or rare one, grows or is found.

Example sentences: "Thus, the southernmost stations for the plant in natural habitats are on Virginia's James and Chickahominy Rivers."

6. Short for Stations of the Cross

Verb

Definitions:

1. Put in or assign to a specified place for a particular purpose, especially a military one.

Example sentences: "Troops were stationed in the town"

Synonyms:

plant

base

electric power plant

power plant

farm

filling station

gasoline pump

petrol station

depot

terminal

terminus

place

precinct

area

channel

reaches

quarter

radio

stop

post

stance

position

situation

television broadcasting station

Derivations:

stationed

stationing

stationary

stationer

stationery

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Station in Other Languages...

Spanish: Estación

German: Bahnhof

French: Station

Italian: Stazione

Turkish: Yer