Meaning

• A stopping place.

• A place where workers are stationed.

• Any of the Stations of the Cross.

• The Roman Catholic fast of the fourth and sixth days of the week, Wednesday and Friday, in memory of the council which condemned Christ, and of his passion.

• A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers.

• Standing; rank; position.

  "She had ambitions beyond her station."

• A broadcasting entity.

  "I used to listen to that radio station."

• A harbour or cove with a foreshore suitable for a facility to support nearby fishing.

• Any of a sequence of equally spaced points along a path.

• The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat.

• An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accommodation of a pump, tank, etc.

• Post assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform; sphere of duty or occupation; employment.

• The position of the foetal head in relation to the distance from the ischial spines, measured in centimetres.

• The fact of standing still; motionlessness, stasis.

• The apparent standing still of a superior planet just before it begins or ends its retrograde motion.