station – English noun declension

English noun forms of station

Noun: station
Singularstation
Pluralstations

Sample 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.' [1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Last Night”, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 80:]
  • 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. [1922, Michael Arlen, “Ep./1/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:]
  • Collect a knife and fork from the cutlery station on the way to your table.
  • Localities across New Jersey imposed curfews to prevent looting. In Monmouth, Ocean and other counties, people waited for hours for gasoline at the few stations that had electricity. Supermarket shelves were stripped bare. [2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, New York Times, retrieved 31 Oct 2012:]
  • The police station is opposite the fire station.
  • The waitress was at her station preparing three checks.
  • The station is part of a group of stations run by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
  • She had a boyfriend at the station.
  • The dynamic tests at Wildenrath use continuous test tracks built on the site of a former Royal Air Force station that was vacated after the end of the Cold War. [2023 November 29, Philip Haigh, “New Piccadilly Line trains put to the test”, in RAIL, number 997, page 26:]
  • I used to work at a radio station.
  • I used to listen to that radio station.
  • An Econet network is made up of a number of stations.
  • When entering a LOAD/SAVE/FORMAT, etc command you not only had to identify the destination of the data (ie, microdrive, network or RS232), but the number of the drive or station too. [2012, Colin Woodcock, The ZX Spectrum on Your PC, page 16:]
  • There was movement at the station, for the word had passed around, / that the colt from old Regret had got away, [1890, A. B. Paterson, The Man From Snowy River:]
  • 1993, Kay Walsh, Joy W. Hooton, Dowker, L. O., entry in Australian Autobiographical Narratives: 1850-1900, page 69,
  • Tiring of sheep, he took work on cattle stations, mustering cattle on vast unfenced holdings, and looking for work ‘nigger-bossing’, or supervising Aboriginal station hands.
  • The romance of the gritty station owner in a crumpled Akubra, his kids educated from the remote homestead by the School of the Air, while triple-trailer road trains drag tornadoes of dust across the plains, creates a stirring idea of the modern-day pioneer battling against the elemental Outback. [2003, Margo Daly, Anne Dehne, Rough Guide to Australia, page 654:]
  • It was my fate to commence my career in the medical service forty years ago in the presanitary days, long before the introduction of modern methods of diagnosis, at two of the most unhealthy stations in the whole of India — Bellary and Secunderabad. [1881, International Congress of Medicine, Transactions of the 1st, 2nd, 4th-17th Congress, page 541:]
  • When a man is absolutely alone in a Station he runs a certain risk of falling into evil ways. [1889, Rudyard Kipling, “A Wayside Comedy”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 60:]
  • So dyd Offa[…]Deuoutly to vysyte all the hole stacyons of the cytee of Rome. [1513, Henry Bradshaw, The Life of Saint Werburge of Chester:]
  • She had ambitions beyond her station.
  • The greater part have kept, I see, / Their station. [1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:]
  • And they in France of the best rank and station [c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:]
  • 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. [1704, Robert Nelson, A Companion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Church of England, New, Revised and Corrected edition, published 1837, page 18:]
  • […]the cross legs [are] moving or resting together, so that two are always in motion and two in station at the same time[…] [1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.5:]

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). See: Middle English Nouns 'stacioun', Old English Nouns 'standan', English Nouns 'stand'.

Verbs referencing "station"

Spanish Nouns estación, Finnish Nouns steissi, Irish Nouns stáisiún.