STATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does station mean? 

• STATION (noun)
  The noun STATION has 5 senses:

1. a facility equipped with special equipment and personnel for a particular purpose

2. proper or designated social situation

3. (nautical) the location to which a ship or fleet is assigned for duty

4. the position where someone (as a guard or sentry) stands or is assigned to stand

5. the frequency assigned to a broadcasting station

  Familiarity information: STATION used as a noun is common.

• STATION (verb)
  The verb STATION has 1 sense:

1. assign to a station

  Familiarity information: STATION used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A facility equipped with special equipment and personnel for a particular purpose

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Context example:

the train pulled into the station

Hypernyms ("station" is a kind of...):

facility; installation (a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "station"):

broadcast station; broadcasting station (a station equipped to broadcast radio or television programs)

fire station; firehouse (a station housing fire apparatus and firemen)

first-aid station (a station providing emergency care or treatment before regular medical aid can be obtained)

observation station (a station set up for making observations of something)

police headquarters; police station; station house (a station that serves as headquarters for police in a particular district; serves as a place from which policemen are dispatched and to which arrested persons are brought)

power plant; power station; powerhouse (an electrical generating station)

service station (a station where gasoline and oil are sold and facilities are available for repairing or maintaining automobiles)

substation (a subsidiary station where electricity is transformed for distribution by a low-voltage network)

depot; terminal; terminus (station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Proper or designated social situation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

place; station

Context example:

married above her station

Hypernyms ("station" is a kind of...):

rank; social rank; social station; social status (position in a social hierarchy)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "station"):

niche (a position particularly well suited to the person who occupies it)

Sense 3

Meaning:

(nautical) the location to which a ship or fleet is assigned for duty

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("station" is a kind of...):

place; position (the particular portion of space occupied by something)

Domain category:

naval forces; navy (an organization of military vessels belonging to a country and available for sea warfare)

Derivation:

station (assign to a station)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The position where someone (as a guard or sentry) stands or is assigned to stand

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

post; station

Context example:

a sentry station

Hypernyms ("station" is a kind of...):

place; position (the particular portion of space occupied by something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "station"):

bridgehead (a defensive post at the end of a bridge nearest to the enemy)

lookout; observation post (an elevated post affording a wide view)

outpost; outstation (a station in a remote or sparsely populated location)

Derivation:

station (assign to a station)

Sense 5

Meaning:

The frequency assigned to a broadcasting station

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("station" is a kind of...):

radio frequency (an electromagnetic wave frequency between audio and infrared)

• STATION (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they station    ... he / she / it stations   
Past simple: stationed   
Past participle: stationed   
-ing form: stationing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Assign to a station

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Synonyms:

place; post; send; station

Hypernyms (to "station" is one way to...):

displace; move (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "station"):

garrison (station (troops) in a fort or garrison)

fort (station (troops) in a fort)

locate; place; site (assign a location to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody PP

Derivation:

station (the position where someone (as a guard or sentry) stands or is assigned to stand)

station ((nautical) the location to which a ship or fleet is assigned for duty)

 Context examples 

Yes, I sent wires from Woking station to every evening paper in London.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Then she should have kept to her own station in life, father,” said Minnie, “and not have given them any hold to talk about her, and then they couldn't have done it.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Every brain cell has a nucleus, or a central command station.

(Scientists uncover nuclear process in the brain that may affect disease, NIH)

It was only my station, and the rank of my wife, that you valued?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

You've got out of your station.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Some local radio stations will continue to transmit on FM until 2022.

(Norway start a complete switch-off of national FM radio stations, Wikipedia)

I feared to go very far from the station, as we had arrived late and would start as near the correct time as possible.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

This time it was the young lady coming from the station.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There must be a station somewhere, and men.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)