[stey-shuh
n] 
| 1. | a place or position in which a person or thing is normally located. |
| 2. | a stopping place for trains or other land conveyances, for the transfer of freight or passengers. |
| 3. | the building or buildings at such a stopping place. |
| 4. | the district or municipal headquarters of certain public services: police station; fire station; postal station. |
| 5. | a place equipped for some particular kind of work, service, research, or the like: gasoline station; geophysical station. |
| 6. | the position, as of persons or things, in a scale of estimation, rank, or dignity; standing: the responsibility of persons of high station. |
| 7. | a position, office, rank, calling, or the like. |
| 8. | Radio and Television.
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| 9. | Military.
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| 10. | Navy. a place or region to which a ship or fleet is assigned for duty. |
| 11. | (formerly in India) the area in which the British officials of a district or the officers of a garrison resided. |
| 12. | Biology. a particular area or type of region where a given animal or plant is found. |
| 13. | Australian. a ranch with its buildings, land, etc., esp. for raising sheep. |
| 14. | Surveying.
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| 15. | a section or area assigned to a waiter, soldier, etc.; post: The waiter says this isn't his station. |
| 16. | stations of the cross. |
| 17. | Archaic. the fact or condition of standing still. |
| 18. | to assign a station to; place or post in a station or position. |