station

Meanings

Noun

• A stopping place.
• A place where workers are stationed.
• Any of the Stations of the Cross.
• The Roman Catholic fast of the fourth and sixth days of the week, Wednesday and Friday, in memory of the council which condemned Christ, and of his passion.
• A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers.
• Standing; rank; position.
• A broadcasting entity.
• A harbour or cove with a foreshore suitable for a facility to support nearby fishing.
• Any of a sequence of equally spaced points along a path.
• The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat.
• An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accommodation of a pump, tank, etc.
• Post assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform; sphere of duty or occupation; employment.
• The position of the foetal head in relation to the distance from the ischial spines, measured in centimetres.
• The fact of standing still; motionlessness, stasis.
• The apparent standing still of a superior planet just before it begins or ends its retrograde motion.

Verb

• To put in place to perform a task.
• To put in place to perform military duty.

Related

Similar words

• channel
• sta , stn
• base, military base
• farm, ranch

Origin

• From Middle English stacioun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman estation, from Latin statiōnem, accusative of statiō, whence also Italian stazione. stagione.