- a place or position in which a person or thing is normally located.
- a stopping place for trains or other land conveyances, for the transfer of freight or passengers.
- the building or buildings at such a stopping place.
- the district or municipal headquarters of certain public services: police station; fire station; postal station.
- a place equipped for some particular kind of work, service, research, or the like: gasoline station; geophysical station.
- the position, as of persons or things, in a scale of estimation, rank, or dignity; standing: the responsibility of persons of high station.
- a position, office, rank, calling, or the like.
- Radio and Television.
- a studio or building from which broadcasts originate.
- a person or organization originating and broadcasting messages or programs.
- a specific frequency or band of frequencies assigned to a regular or special broadcaster: Tune to the Civil Defense station.
- the complete equipment used in transmitting and receiving broadcasts.
- Military.
- a military place of duty.
- a semipermanent army post.
- a place or region to which a ship or fleet is assigned for duty.
- (formerly in India) the area in which the British officials of a district or the officers of a garrison resided.
- a particular area or type of region where a given animal or plant is found.
- a ranch with its buildings, land, etc., especially for raising sheep.
- Surveying.
- a point where an observation is taken.
- a precisely located reference point.
- a length of 100 feet (30 meters) along a survey line.
- a section or area assigned to a waiter, soldier, etc.; post: The waiter says this isn't his station.
- stations of the cross.
- the fact or condition of standing still.
- to assign a station to; place or post in a station or position.
- the place or position at which a thing or person stands or is supposed to stand
- a place along a route or line at which a bus, train, etc, stops for fuel or to pick up or let off passengers or goods, esp one with ancillary buildings and services
- (as modifier)
- the headquarters or local offices of an official organization such as the police or fire services
- (as modifier)
- a building, depot, etc, with special equipment for some particular purpose
- a place of duty
- navy
- a location to which a ship or fleet is assigned for duty
- an assigned location for a member of a ship's crew
- a radio or television channel
- a position or standing, as in a particular society or organization
- the type of one's occupation; calling
- (in British India) a place where the British district officials or garrison officers resided
- the type of habitat occupied by a particular animal or plant
- a large sheep or cattle farm
- a point at which a reading is made or which is used as a point of reference
- (often capital) RC Church
- one of the Stations of the Cross
- any of the churches (station churches) in Rome that have been used from ancient times as points of assembly for religious processions and ceremonies on particular days (station days)
- (in rural Ireland) mass, preceded by confessions, held annually in a parishioner's dwelling and attended by other parishioners
- to place in or assign to a station
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