way station

Questions about way station

What does way station mean?

way station means "a stopping place on a journey". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for way station?

Close synonyms include stopover, whistle stop, flag stop. 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 way station a common word?

way station is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.