Dictionary Entry
station
station is a 7-letter English word with 24 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of standing; also, attitude or pose in standing; posture. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 24 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The act of standing; also, attitude or pose in standing; posture.
- 2noun
A state of standing or rest; equilibrium.
- 3noun
The spot or place where anything stands, especially where a person or thing habitually stands, or is appointed to remain for a time; as, the station of a sentinel.
- 4noun
A regular stopping place in a stage road or route; a place where railroad trains regularly come to a stand, for the convenience of passengers, taking in fuel, moving freight, etc.
- 5noun
The headquarters of the police force of any precinct.
- 6noun
The place at which an instrument is planted, or observations are made, as in surveying.
- 7noun
The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat.
- 8noun
A place to which ships may resort, and where they may anchor safely.
- 9noun
A place or region to which a government ship or fleet is assigned for duty.
- 10noun
A place calculated for the rendezvous of troops, or for the distribution of them; also, a spot well adapted for offensive measures. Wilhelm (Mil. Dict.).
- 11noun
An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accomodation of a pump, tank, etc.
- 12noun
Post assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform; sphere of duty or occupation; employment.
- 13noun
Situation; position; location.
- 14noun
State; rank; condition of life; social status.
- 15noun
The 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.
- 16noun
A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers.
- 17noun
One of the places at which ecclesiastical processions pause for the performance of an act of devotion; formerly, the tomb of a martyr, or some similarly consecrated spot; now, especially, one of those representations of the successive stages of our Lord's passion which are often placed round the naves of large churches and by the side of the way leading to sacred edifices or shrines, and which are visited in rotation, stated services being performed at each; -- called also Station of the cross.
- 18transitive verb
To place; to set; to appoint or assign to the occupation of a post, place, or office; as, to station troops on the right of an army; to station a sentinel on a rampart; to station ships on the coasts of Africa.
- 19noun
a facility equipped with special equipment and personnel for a particular purpose
"he started looking for a gas station"
"the train pulled into the station"
- 20noun
the frequency assigned to a broadcasting station
- 21noun
the position where someone (as a guard or sentry) stands or is assigned to stand
"a soldier manned the entrance post"
"a sentry station"
Synonyms
- 22noun
(nautical) the location to which a ship or fleet is assigned for duty
- 23noun
proper or designated social situation
"he overstepped his place"
"the responsibilities of a man in his station"
Synonyms
- 24verb
assign to a station
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