station

1. 1.

   assign to a station

   Synonymspostsendplace

   Broadermove

   Narrowergarrisonfortlocate

Other forms of station

plural

stations·

past tense

stationed·

present participle

stationing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about station

What does station mean?

station means "a facility equipped with special equipment and personnel for a particular purpose". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in station?

station has 2 syllables: sta-tion. The stress falls on "sta". In IPA it is /ˈsteɪʃən/.

What is another word for station?

Close synonyms include place, post, post, send, place. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is station a common word?

station is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with station?

12 words rhyme with station. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.