railway station
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1.3
- noun
- /ˈreɪlweɪ ˈsteɪʃən/
- UK
:
estación de tren
- After arriving at the railway station, we quickly bought our tickets before heading to the platform.
And I hadn't gone to Ipswich railway station to meet men.
- And I hadn't gone to Ipswich railway station to meet men.
- It's the it's the railway station where all train would depart.
- These profits often foretell, and many seem to yearn for a world like one big glass roofed railway station.
- And in my book, I've got some photographs there because we're in a mass group left from the railway station.
Examples
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So there are seven mainline railway stations in Paris.
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When Geula returned, Uncle Peretz was waiting for her at the railway station.
Fiction book (1998) -
Can you get to the railway station?
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- We are going to the railway station.
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I'm taking you to either the railway station or the police station.
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I am sitting in the waiting room of the main railway station in Shanghai, along with a thousand other people.
Fiction book (2002) -
We stayed at small hotels near the railway station, a different one each night.
Fiction book (2001) -
The markets in Bonn are all within walking distance of the main square and railway station.
Academic text (2005) -
I am alone, sitting on a bench at a deserted country railway station.
Fiction book (2001) -
Lang and Sugrue glanced inside the musty, crumbling cathedral of a railway station.
Fiction book (1997)
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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3.5
A building where passengers begin or end a journey, for example at an airport
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1.0
A place where trains stop for people and goods 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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1.5
A place where trains stop to pick up or drop off people and goods
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Morphology
The meaning 'a place where trains stop to pick up or drop off passengers or goods' is directly and compositionally derived from 'railway' (train tracks/rail system) + 'station' (a transport building/place), so a learner who knows both constituents can infer the combined meaning. This noun-noun compounding is cross-linguistically common and follows standard English composition patterns, making it immediately comprehensible to B1 learners.
Etymology
Railway station is made of railway, meaning the rails trains run on, and station, meaning a place where something stops, so it paints the simple picture of trains stopping at a place. That's why it means 'a place where trains stop to pick up or drop off passengers or goods'.