Meaning

3 senses
  1. (US)A structure or other area set aside for storage of fire-extinguishing equipment.

  2. (US)The headquarters of a police force or unit for a specific district; a police station.

    Polizeirevier, Polizeiposten

    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

  3. A building serving as shelter at a railway station.

Examples

6 sentences
  1. Walking from the station to my house takes only five minutes.

  2. Walking from the station to my house only takes five minutes.

    deVom Bahnhof bis zu mir nach Hause sind es zu Fuß nur fünf Minuten. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  3. She takes a taxi from the station to her house.

    deSie fährt mit dem Taxi vom Bahnhof nach Hause. — raggione

  4. There's only one station house in that city.

  5. Walking from the station to the house takes only five minutes.

Translations

1 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
area headquarters for police.:

Forms

plural: station houses

Synonyms

3 synonyms
area police headquarters:police stationA2precinct
Close in meaning
  • 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:police stationpolice headquarters

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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