station

The next station is Esperanza.

A regular stopping place for ground transportation.

It's right across from the bus station.

A stopping place.
A ground transportation depot.

From my station at the front door, I greeted every visitor.

All ships are on station, Admiral.

"[…]Meanwhile, lest anything should really be amiss, or any malefactor seek to escape by the back, you and the boy must go round the corner with a pair of good sticks and take your post at the laboratory door. We give you ten minutes, to get to your stations."

1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC:

He walked. To the corner of Hamilton Place and Picadilly, and there stayed for a while, for it is a romantic station by night. The vague and careless rain looked like threads of gossamer silver passing across the light of the arc-lamps.

1922, Michael Arlen, “Ep./1/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:

A place where one stands or stays or is assigned to stand or stay.

Collect a knife and fork from the cutlery station on the way to your table.

A stopping place.
A place where some object is provided.

Localities across New Jersey imposed curfews to prevent looting. In Monmouth, Ocean and other counties, people waited for hours for gasoline at the few stations that had electricity. Supermarket shelves were stripped bare.

2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, New York Times, retrieved 2012-10-31:

A stopping place.
(US) A gas station, service station.

A stopping place.
A gas station, service station.

The police station is opposite the fire station.

An official building from which police or firefighters operate.

The waitress was at her station preparing three checks.

The station is part of a group of stations run by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

A place where one performs a task or where one is on call to perform a task.

She had a boyfriend at the station.

The dynamic tests at Wildenrath use continuous test tracks built on the site of a former Royal Air Force station that was vacated after the end of the Cold War.

2023 November 29, Philip Haigh, “New Piccadilly Line trains put to the test”, in RAIL, number 997, page 26:

A place where workers are stationed.
A military base.

I used to work at a radio station.

I used to listen to that radio station.

A place used for broadcasting radio or television; the broadcasting entity itself.

There was movement at the station, for the word had passed around, / that the colt from old Regret had got away,

1890, A. B. Paterson, The Man From Snowy River:

1993, Kay Walsh, Joy W. Hooton, Dowker, L. O., entry in Australian Autobiographical Narratives: 1850-1900, 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.

The romance of the gritty station owner in a crumpled Akubra, his kids educated from the remote homestead by the School of the Air, while triple-trailer road trains drag tornadoes of dust across the plains, creates a stirring idea of the modern-day pioneer battling against the elemental Outback.

2003, Margo Daly, Anne Dehne, Rough Guide to Australia, page 654:

(Australia, New Zealand) A very large sheep or cattle farm.

A place where workers are stationed.
A very large sheep or cattle farm.

It was my fate to commence my career in the medical service forty years ago in the presanitary days, long before the introduction of modern methods of diagnosis, at two of the most unhealthy stations in the whole of India — Bellary and Secunderabad.

1881, International Congress of Medicine, Transactions of the 1st, 2nd, 4th-17th Congress, page 541:

(historical) In British India, the place where the English officials of a district, or the officers of a garrison (not in a fortress) reside.

Stations of the Cross
Stations of the Cross

(Christianity) Any of the Stations of the Cross.

(Christianity) 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.

So dyd Offa[…]Deuoutly to vysyte all the hole stacyons of the cytee of Rome.

1513, Henry Bradshaw, The Life of Saint Werburge of Chester:

(Christianity) A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers.

She had ambitions beyond her station.

The greater part have kept, I see, / Their station.

1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

And they in France of the best rank and station

c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:

(Newfoundland) A harbour or cove with a foreshore suitable for a facility to support nearby fishing.

(surveying) 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.

(mining) An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accommodation of a pump, tank, etc.

Moreover, by spending this day [Sunday] in religious exercises, we acquire new strength and resolution to perform God's will in our several stations the week following.

1704, Robert Nelson, A Companion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Church of England, New, Revised and Corrected edition, published 1837, page 18:

Post assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform; sphere of duty or occupation; employment.

(medicine) The position of the foetal head in relation to the distance from the ischial spines, measured in centimetres.

[…]the cross legs [are] moving or resting together, so that two are always in motion and two in station at the same time[…]

1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.5:

(obsolete) The fact of standing still; motionlessness, stasis.

(astronomy) The apparent standing still of a superior planet just before it begins or ends its retrograde motion.

channel

broadcasting entity; that broadcasts television

→ Hindi: स्टेशन (sṭeśan)

→ Irish: stáisiún

→ Malay: stesen

desc

ਸਟੇਸ਼ਨ (sṭeśan)

→ Punjabi: سٹیشن/ਸਟੇਸ਼ਨ (sṭeśan)

→ Scottish Gaelic: stèisean

→ Swahili: stesheni

→ Urdu: سْٹیشَن (sṭeśan), اِسْٹیشَن (isṭeśan)

→ Urdu: سْٹیشَن (sṭeśan), اِسْٹیشَن (isṭeśan)

From Middle English stacioun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman estation, from Latin statiōnem, accusative of statiō (“standing, post, job, position”), whence also Italian stazione. Doublet of stagione. Cognate with Ancient Greek ἵστημι (hístēmi), στάσις (stásis), Old English standan (whence English stand).


station

The host stationed me at the front door to greet visitors.

I was stationed on the pier.

Watchmen are stationed continuously at each end of the bridge, and the main spans are patrolled twice during the night.

1950 March, H. A. Vallance, “On Foot Across the Forth Bridge”, in Railway Magazine, page 149:

The Costa Rican's lofted corner exposed Arsenal's own problems with marking, and Berbatov, stationed right in the middle of goal, only needed to take a gentle amble back to find the space to glance past Vito Mannone

2012 November 10, Amy Lawrence, “Fulham's Mark Schwarzer saves late penalty in dramatic draw at Arsenal”, in The Guardian:

(usually passive) To put in place to perform a task.

They stationed me overseas just as fighting broke out.

I was stationed at Fort Richie.

To put in place to perform military duty.

en-verb

station (third-person singular simple present stations, present participle stationing, simple past and past participle stationed)

stations (present singular third-person)
stationing (participle present)
stationed (participle past)
stationed (past)