missionary station
- noun
- /ˈmɪʃənˌɛri ˈsteɪʃən/
:
estación misionera
- The missionary station organized a charity event to raise funds for its ongoing humanitarian projects.
Examples
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"The Southern church," Brown reminded the convention, "holds up to the gaze of heaven and earth more converted heathens than can be found in all our missionary stations in heathen lands."
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During their travels, they visited a missionary station that focused on providing aid to the villagers.
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Photographs of a Nhambiquara home and of the missionary station continued to employ the common technique of contrast.
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Descriptions of construction with unusual materials and under adverse circumstances are a common feature in the official reports from most missionary stations and in published accounts.
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The practice of "pretuning" radios involved the use of fixed circuits so that audiences could only pick up missionary stations and nothing else.
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Radio Circle managers used demand for receivers among poor Ecuadorans as "attractive bait" to draw listeners to the missionary station.
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The young couple got married in Bali, and Maria joined her husband in Web in May of 1932, the official date of the establishment of Weh as a missionary station.
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As the first successful missionary station in the world, HCJB and its founder Clarence Jones played a central role in the rise of missionary radio after WWII.
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By providing free or subsidized sets to listeners, missionary stations hoped to compensate for the extreme shortage of radios in developing countries and thereby build audiences for their programs.
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The local missionary station provides essential education and healthcare to the surrounding communities.
Synonyms
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3.4
A place where people work to spread a religion or help others
A place in another country where religious workers live and help with education and health
A group of people sent from a religious organization to another country to teach their religion and help local people
How Religious
245
3.4
1
3.7
408
1.3
108
2.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from 'missionary' (relating to religious outreach) + 'station' (a place, post, or established base). Although 'station' can denote a transport facility, it commonly means an established post or base across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer an establishment run by missionaries.
Etymology
Missionary station comes from a simple image: a station was a small base where missionaries lived, taught and gave help to local people in a faraway place. So, it means 'an establishment set up by missionaries in a foreign country to do religious work and give help'.