filling station
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1.4
- noun
- /ˈfɪlɪŋ ˈsteɪʃən/
- UK
:
estación de servicio
- I stopped at the filling station to get gas for my car.
And we did things like newspaper routes, shoveling snow, running errands, working in filling stations, construction, all that kind of stuff.
- And we did things like newspaper routes, shoveling snow, running errands, working in filling stations, construction, all that kind of stuff.
Examples
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Would the automobile be what it is today without the infrastructure of filling stations and repair shops?
Academic text (2000) -
At some stages, there were not enough filling stations pumping unleaded petrol to meet the growing consumer demand.
Academic text (2005) -
Can we stop at the filling station?
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I'll be up here at the filling station.
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You run outta gas and go to the filling station.
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I think you'll have to take it to the filling station to let Mike fix it.
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Every few hundred yards, there is a filling station, half a dozen colored pumps before it.
Academic text (1998) -
The police had informed her that it was the only filling station in the hamlet of Kirkland.
Fiction book (1993) -
Just past the next curve, she calculated, was the Ellis Brothers' filling station.
Fiction book (2002) -
No customers were parked on the filling station's gravel lot, and for that small favor, Muriel felt immense gratitude.
Fiction book (2002)
Synonyms
194
1.0
A place where people buy fuel for cars and small items
12
1.8
A place where people fill cars with fuel and get small repairs
3
1.0
A place where you buy petrol and fill your car
3
1.2
A place where people buy fuel for cars and other vehicles
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun is compositionally built from 'filling' (the act of filling or refuelling) + 'station' (a place/building), so its meaning — a place where vehicles are filled with fuel — is directly derivable from the parts. This construction follows ordinary English word-formation patterns and has clear cross-linguistic parallels, making it immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows the constituents.
Etymology
Filling station The noun filling station comes from the simple image of a station where workers did the filling of a car's tank. That's why it means 'a place to buy fuel'.