station
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
station/ˈsteɪʃn/
▶noun
- 1 a place where passenger trains stop on a railway line, typically with platforms and buildings.
- 2 a place where a specified activity or service is based: a radar station.
■ a small military base.
■ N. Amer. a subsidiary post office.
- 3 a broadcasting company of a specified kind.
- 4 the place where someone or something stands or is placed for a purpose or duty.
■ one's social rank or position.
- 5 Austral./NZ a large sheep or cattle farm.
- 6 Botany a site at which an interesting or rare plant grows.
– origin ME: via OFr. from L. statio(n-), from stare ‘to stand’.
'station' also found in these Oxford entries:
base station
- bay
- buffet
- busbar
- call
- call letters
- carry
- channel
- chokey
- comfort station
- cop shop
- dangling participle
- Darjeeling
- depot
- dock
- docking station
- dressing station
- estancia
- ethnic
- exit poll
- filling station
- fire
- firehouse
- fire station
- forecourt
- gas station
- hill station
- indicator
- interchange
- isostasy
- jackaroo
- knockabout
- left luggage
- listening post
- nick
- penstock
- petrol station
- pirate
- playlist
- police station
- post
- power plant
- power station
- radio
- RNAS
- sentinel
- service station
- slip carriage
- space station
- Sta.
