"way station" meaning in English

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  "pos": "noun",
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      "glosses": [
        "A small railway station between the principal stations or a station where the train stops only on a signal."
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          "word": "stopover"
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          "word": "whistle-stop"
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          "word": "staging post"
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          "word": "way-station"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 201",
          "text": "At one of the way-stations on his long journey a barmaid at a tavern speaks to Gilgamesh and tries to give him common sense on the human condition.",
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        "A service area or temporary lodging used during a longer journey."
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        "(figuratively) A service area or temporary lodging used during a longer journey."
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        "figuratively"
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "homophone": "weigh station"
    }
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  "word": "way station"
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      "form": "way stations",
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  "pos": "noun",
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        "A small railway station between the principal stations or a station where the train stops only on a signal."
      ]
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          "text": "At one of the way-stations on his long journey a barmaid at a tavern speaks to Gilgamesh and tries to give him common sense on the human condition.",
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        "A service area or temporary lodging used during a longer journey."
      ],
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        "(figuratively) A service area or temporary lodging used during a longer journey."
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    {
      "homophone": "weigh station"
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      "word": "stopover"
    },
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      "word": "whistle-stop"
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      "word": "staging post"
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    {
      "word": "way-station"
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      "word": "waystation"
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  "word": "way station"
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