station
/ˈsteɪʃən/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.01 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The next station is Esperanza."
- "It's right across from the bus station."
- "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.'"
- "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."
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).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *steh₂-, stacioun, estation, statiōnem
Usage
- American usage
- Australian usage
- New Zealand usage
- Obsolete
- Slang
- Transitive verb