station

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

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

   They started looking for a gas station.

2. 2
   noun

   A stopping place.

   The next station is Esperanza.

3. 3
   noun

   A place where workers are stationed.

   The police station is opposite the fire station.

4. 4
   noun

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

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

5. 5
   noun

   Standing; rank; position.

   She had ambitions beyond her station.

6. 6
   noun

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

   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.

7. 7
   noun

   The fact of standing still; motionlessness, stasis.

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

8. 8
   verb

   To put in place to perform a task.

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

Etymology

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).