Definitions for stations

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stations sta·tion

Spelling: [stey-shuh n]

IPA: /ˈsteɪ ʃən/

Stations is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 226 anagrams from letters in stations (ainosstt).

Definitions for stations

noun

1. a place or position in which a person or thing is normally located.
2. a stopping place for trains or other land conveyances, for the transfer of freight or passengers.
3. the building or buildings at such a stopping place.
4. the district or municipal headquarters of certain public services:
5. a place equipped for some particular kind of work, service, research, or the like:
6. the position, as of persons or things, in a scale of estimation, rank, or dignity; standing:
7. a position, office, rank, calling, or the like.
8. 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: the complete equipment used in transmitting and receiving broadcasts.
9. Military. a military place of duty. a semipermanent army post.
10. Navy. a place or region to which a ship or fleet is assigned for duty.
11. (formerly in India) the area in which the British officials of a district or the officers of a garrison resided.
12. Biology. a particular area or type of region where a given animal or plant is found.
13. Australian. a ranch with its buildings, land, etc., especially for raising sheep.
14. Surveying. Also called instrument station, set-up. a point where an observation is taken. a precisely located reference point. a length of 100 feet (30 meters) along a survey line.
15. a section or area assigned to a waiter, soldier, etc.; post:
16. stations of the cross.
17. Archaic. the fact or condition of standing still.

verb (used with object)

1. to assign a station to; place or post in a station or position.

Origin of stations

1350-1400; Latin statiōn- (stem of statiō) a standing still, standing-place, equivalent to stat(us) (past participle of stāre to stand) + -iōn- -

Examples for stations

We are now within 140 miles from the nearest Adelaide station.

How did a normal Friday night with friends turn into 18-year-old second-year Hannah Graham running past a Shell station alone?

Along the route as, well as at the station, the party was cheered by a large crowd.

So Venediktov has decided to take the “illegal attacks” on the station to court, though his chances of success are low.

The quartette started for the station with Patience and Emma in the lead.

They walked rapidly to the station, but too late, of course, for the train.

When the train pulled into the station she was the first person to board it.

Now the station may be fighting its last battle, its editor tells The Daily Beast.

A train had actually arrived at the station but its doors were already shut.

McCauley may have married beneath her station, but Gordon-Levitt has obsessive fans.