station house

1. 1.

   a station that serves as headquarters for police in a particular district; serves as a place from which policemen are dispatched and to which arrested persons are brought

   Synonymspolice stationpolice headquarters

   Broaderstation

   Partssquad room

Questions about station house

What does station house mean?

station house means "a station that serves as headquarters for police in a particular district; serves as a place from which policemen are dispatched and to which arrested persons are brought".

What is another word for station house?

Close synonyms include police station, police headquarters. 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 house a common word?

station house is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.