station

Etymology
From, borrowed from , from , accusative of , whence also Italian. . Cognate with 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬 (whence 🇨🇬).

Noun



 * 1) A stopping place.
 * 2) A regular stopping place for ground transportation.
 * 3) A ground transportation depot.
 * 4) A place where one stands or stays or is assigned to stand or stay.
 * 5) A place where some object is provided.
 * Collect a knife and fork from the cutlery station on the way to your table.
 * 1)  A gas station, service station.
 * 2) A place where workers are stationed.
 * 3) An official building from which police or firefighters operate.
 * 4) A place where one performs a task or where one is on call to perform a task.
 * [[File:The station is part of a group of stations.ogg]]
 * 1) A military base.
 * 2) A place used for broadcasting radio or television; the broadcasting entity itself.
 * 3)  A very large sheep or cattle farm.
 * 4) * 1993, Kay Walsh, Joy W. Hooton, Dowker, L. O., entry in Australian Autobiographical Narratives: 1850-1900, |%22stations%22+australia+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=_wyTYjQ8eo&sig=N1T04h53D04yrOVvh-Edt0u_wfU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=FZBlUIGKOe-4iAeV14CICg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22station%22|%22stations%22%20australia%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 69,
 * Tiring of sheep, he took work on cattle stations, mustering cattle on vast unfenced holdings, and looking for work ‘nigger-bossing’, or supervising Aboriginal station hands.
 * 1)  In British India, the place where the English officials of a district, or the officers of a garrison (not in a fortress) reside.
 * 2)  Any of the Stations of the Cross.
 * 3)  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.
 * 4)  A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers.
 * 5) Standing; rank; position.
 * 6)  A harbour or cove with a foreshore suitable for a facility to support nearby fishing.
 * 7)  Any of a sequence of equally spaced points along a path.
 * 8) The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat.
 * 9)  An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accommodation of a pump, tank, etc.
 * 10) Post assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform; sphere of duty or occupation; employment.
 * 11)  The position of the foetal head in relation to the distance from the ischial spines, measured in centimetres.
 * 12)  The fact of standing still; motionlessness, stasis.
 * 13)  The apparent standing still of a superior planet just before it begins or ends its retrograde motion.
 * Tiring of sheep, he took work on cattle stations, mustering cattle on vast unfenced holdings, and looking for work ‘nigger-bossing’, or supervising Aboriginal station hands.
 * 1)  In British India, the place where the English officials of a district, or the officers of a garrison (not in a fortress) reside.
 * 2)  Any of the Stations of the Cross.
 * 3)  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.
 * 4)  A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers.
 * 5) Standing; rank; position.
 * 6)  A harbour or cove with a foreshore suitable for a facility to support nearby fishing.
 * 7)  Any of a sequence of equally spaced points along a path.
 * 8) The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat.
 * 9)  An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accommodation of a pump, tank, etc.
 * 10) Post assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform; sphere of duty or occupation; employment.
 * 11)  The position of the foetal head in relation to the distance from the ischial spines, measured in centimetres.
 * 12)  The fact of standing still; motionlessness, stasis.
 * 13)  The apparent standing still of a superior planet just before it begins or ends its retrograde motion.
 * 1) The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat.
 * 2)  An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accommodation of a pump, tank, etc.
 * 3) Post assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform; sphere of duty or occupation; employment.
 * 4)  The position of the foetal head in relation to the distance from the ischial spines, measured in centimetres.
 * 5)  The fact of standing still; motionlessness, stasis.
 * 6)  The apparent standing still of a superior planet just before it begins or ends its retrograde motion.
 * 1)  The apparent standing still of a superior planet just before it begins or ends its retrograde motion.
 * 1)  The apparent standing still of a superior planet just before it begins or ends its retrograde motion.

Usage notes
With regard to railway stations, in North America one is usually said to be at or in a station. The UK usage "on the station" is not found in North America.

Synonyms

 * channel

Translations

 * Abkhaz: астанциа
 * Afrikaans: stasie
 * Albanian: ,
 * Amharic: ኬላ, መናኸሪያ
 * Arabic: مَحَطَّة
 * Egyptian Arabic: محطة, موقف
 * Armenian:,  ,
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani: stansiya, ,
 * Basque: geltoki
 * Belarusian: ста́нцыя, вакза́л, прыпы́нак, дварэ́ц
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:, ,
 * Burmese: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chechen: станци
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 站
 * Dungan: зан, зандо, станция
 * Eastern Min: 站
 * Hakka: 站
 * Hokkien: ,
 * Mandarin:
 * Wu: 站頭, 站
 * Corsican: stazione
 * Czech:, ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: stacio, stacidomo (building)
 * Estonian:, , vaksal
 * Finnish:
 * French: (main-line or commuter rail),  (metro and other modes)
 * Georgian: სადგური, ვაგზალი
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: σταθμός
 * Gujarati: સ્ટેશન
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: station
 * Irish: stáisiún
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:, , ,
 * Kannada:
 * Kazakh: станция,, , аялдама, вокзал
 * Khmer:, , ,
 * Korean:, ,  ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: ئێستگە
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Kyrgyz:, аялдама,
 * Lao: ສະຖານີ
 * Latvian: stacija
 * Lithuanian:
 * Lü: ᦈᦱᧃᧈ
 * Macedonian: станица
 * Malay: ,
 * Malayalam: സ്റ്റേഷൻ
 * Maltese: l-istazzjon, stazzjon
 * Maori: teihana
 * Marathi: स्थानक, स्टेशन
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:, ,
 * Mongolian: ᠥᠷᠲᠡᠭᠡ, ᠰᠲ᠋ᠠᠨᠼᠢ, ᠸᠣᠻᠽᠠᠯ
 * Neapolitan: stazzione
 * Northern Thai:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: stasjon
 * Odia: ଷ୍ଟେସନ
 * Pashto: ټيسن,, اېستګا
 * Persian:
 * Dari:
 * Iranian Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: Stazion
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi:
 * Gurmukhi:
 * Shahmukhi: سٹیشَن
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: stèisean
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ста̀ница, ко̏лодво̄р
 * Roman: ,
 * Sinhalese: ඉස්ටේසම
 * Slovak: stanica, zastávka
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: estasyon,
 * Tajik: истгоҳ,
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar: станция, вокзал
 * Telugu: స్టేషన్
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: བབ་ཚུགས
 * Tigrinya: መደበር
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Turkmen: stansiýa, stantsiýa,, duralga
 * Ukrainian:, вокза́л , зупи́нка, дворе́ць , двіре́ць
 * Urdu: مُسْتَقَر, اِیسْتْگاہ, اِسْٹیشَن
 * Uyghur: ئىستانسا, بېكەت, ۋوگزال
 * Uzbek:, , ,
 * Vietnamese:, , (站),
 * Welsh: gorsaf
 * Yiddish: סטאַנציע, וואָקזאַל
 * Zhuang: ndwn, camh


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: σταθμός
 * Japanese:
 * Latin: ,
 * Malay:
 * Maori: tūnga
 * Persian:
 * Iranian Persian: تَوَقُّفِ گاه
 * Plautdietsch: Stazion
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Swahili:
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Yiddish: פּאָזיציע, שטאַנד, מעמד


 * Belarusian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * Hindi: अड्डा
 * Japanese:, 軍事基地, 駐屯地
 * Korean: 주둔지(駐屯地)
 * Persian:
 * Iranian Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: stèisean
 * Ukrainian:


 * Arabic: إِذَاعَة, مَحَطَّة إِذَاعِيَّة
 * Belarusian: ста́нцыя
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 電臺//電台//电台
 * Hokkien: 電臺//電台//电台
 * Mandarin: 電臺//電台//电台
 * Wu: 電臺//電台//电台
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: ئێستگە
 * Lithuanian:
 * Malay:
 * Persian:
 * Iranian Persian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: stèisean
 * Swahili:
 * Tagalog:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish: tv-station
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Hebrew:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Persian:
 * Iranian Persian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: stèisean
 * Slovene:
 * Swahili:
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese: ,

Verb

 * 1)  To put in place to perform a task.
 * 2) To put in place to perform military duty.
 * They stationed me overseas just as fighting broke out.
 * I was stationed at Fort Richie.
 * 1) To put in place to perform military duty.
 * They stationed me overseas just as fighting broke out.
 * I was stationed at Fort Richie.
 * I was stationed at Fort Richie.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian: stasjonere


 * Bulgarian: позиционирам, дислоцирам
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese:

Etymology
From, from , derived from the verb.

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) station (place for vehicles to stop)
 * 2)  disk drive
 * 3) radio station or television station
 * 1) radio station or television station

Etymology
,, borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  place where workers are stationed

Etymology
From, from , from , accusative of.

Etymology
Borrowed from, from , accusative of.

Noun

 * 1) A facility used for broadcasting of transmissions.
 * 2) A facility (used by a state run department) or by scientists for collecting data.
 * 3) Place where one exits or enters a train, bus etc.
 * 1) Place where one exits or enters a train, bus etc.