bus station
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1.0
- noun
- /bʌs ˈsteɪʃən/
:
estación de autobuses
- The new bus station has comfortable seating and free Wi-Fi for passengers.
So one of her students saw me sleeping in the bus station and snitched on me.
- So one of her students saw me sleeping in the bus station and snitched on me.
- And then your brain searches every single morning when you're at school, when you're in the bus station, when you're doing this, when you're doing that for evidence to prove that concept, OK?
- Yes, but the poster outside the bus station in the analogue world is, has a far finer level of, of, of detail than I think you could do digitally.
Examples
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I live in Bankhead, near the bus station.
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Can you tell me where the bus station is?
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Driver, please get me to the bus station.
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Catch a cab to the bus station and buy a ticket.
Fiction book (1999) -
- I'm driving you to the bus station.
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It's in a locker in the bus station.
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I'm going to the bus station.
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I found him near the bus station at Grants, and I gave him a ride.
Fiction book (1993) -
I walked him to the bus station; I waited for the bus; I watched him get on it.
Fiction book (1997) -
So we're currently waiting at a bus station here in Chiang Mai.
Synonyms
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2.0
A building with staff and equipment for a public service, like where trains stop or firefighters work
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1.0
A place where people wait for a bus to get on and off
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4.4
A place where buses and trains stop for people and goods to get on and off
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1.8
A station where people get on and off buses at the start or end of routes
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2.5
A place where people keep, fix, and send out buses with a waiting area
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3.9
A small stop on a route where people pause before continuing
A station where buses or vans start and stop
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Morphology
The meaning 'a place where buses stop and passengers get on or off' is directly and compositionally derived from 'bus' (large vehicle on public routes) + 'station' (a building/place for transport services). This noun+noun compound is a transparent, cross-linguistically common compositional pattern that a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand.
Etymology
Bus station is a name made from the words bus and station, where 'station' meant a fixed stopping place for vehicles. So a bus station is the place where buses line up and people wait to 'get on or off'.