fire station
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1.3
- noun
- /ˈfaɪər ˈsteɪʃən/
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estación de bomberos
- Where's the nearest fire station?
- fire station office
- fire station post
- fire station and police
We broke, broke into the fire station.
- We broke, broke into the fire station.
- We don't know what's happening way out there in these fire stations.
- So while the population has massively grown, the number of fire stations has increased by six or seven, right, which is crazy.
- And I got all the ways to a fire station, and the fire station garage door was open and there was a fireman and he was working on a fire truck.
- They said, OK, we'll go to the busiest fire station in San Diego and we'll live the life of a firefighter and the San Diego Fire and Rescue and the city.
Examples
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But there was a disturbance down at the fire station earlier.
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We left the house and drove to the fire station on Mulholland just east of Laurel Canyon Boulevard.
Fiction book (2001) -
You drive down to the ring road near the fire station, okay?
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I will drive you to a fire station and I will leave you there.
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We're going to head back to the fire station now, where the command post is setting up.
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This is one of the oldest fire stations in the city.
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The town of Tyler had once been a thriving little city with its own train and fire station.
Fiction book (1994) -
A centralized state-of-the-art fire station seems to be a good idea for Peekskill.
Blog text (14) -
Still, I was alarmed when the air horn sounded from the fire station, the shrill civic shriek.
Fiction book (2002) -
The firefighters quickly responded to the emergency from the fire station down the street.
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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1.8
A building where firefighters stay, keep equipment, and leave to fight fires
A building where firefighters live and work
A building where firefighters keep equipment, work, and hold community events
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Morphology
The meaning 'a building where firefighters and fire engines are based' is directly and compositionally derived from 'fire' (the emergency kind) plus 'station' (a building housing a service). This noun+noun compound follows a common, cross-linguistic pattern and would be immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
Fire station comes from the simple picture of firefighters and engines staying at a station to fight fire. Because they wait there so they can go quickly, fire station means the building where firefighters and fire engines are based.