When I left the train station, I saw a man.
Source: tatoeba (1555)
Station
/ˈsteɪʃən/
Synonyms for "station" (241 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (49)
Strong matches (72)
Related words (120)
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Verb(14 words)
Noun(20 words)
Determiner(1 words)
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Adjective(2 words)
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Choosing the right synonym
- Closest matches in this entry: place, post, post, affix, anchor.
- Sentence evidence is available for station, so synonym choice can be checked against real usage rather than a flat word list.
- Ranking signals come from wiktionary, wordnet, opengloss, moby, and related lexical sources.
Synonym selection checklist
- Match the part of speech before comparing meanings.
- Check whether the synonym changes intensity, formality, or emotional tone.
- Read the replacement inside the full sentence, not just beside "station".
- Prefer the clearest word over the most unusual word when writing for speed or comprehension.
When not to replace "station"
Keep "station" when the sentence already sounds natural, when a synonym would add unintended emphasis, or when readers need the most familiar wording. A synonym should clarify or sharpen the message, not simply make the sentence look more varied.
If two options seem close, choose the one that best matches the audience and purpose of the sentence.
Replacement workflow
1. Preserve meaning
Choose a synonym only if it keeps the core idea of "station" intact in the sentence you are editing.
2. Tune tone
Check whether the replacement sounds more formal, casual, emotional, technical, or forceful than the original word.
3. Re-read context
Read the full sentence after the swap. Keep the synonym only when the sentence becomes clearer or more precise.
Review note: Synonym lists are ranked with lexical data and reviewed for practical writing value. Use the comparison notes, sentence evidence, and source labels together; a high-ranking synonym can still be wrong when the audience, register, or grammar changes.
Final fit check
After choosing a replacement for "station", read the sentence once for meaning and once for rhythm. The best synonym should feel natural in the full sentence, not only accurate in a word list.
If the synonym makes the sentence slower, vaguer, or more dramatic than intended, keep "station" or choose a simpler alternative from the closest-match group.
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
19 entriesShowing 16 of 19 words.
More specific
13 entriesbus stationcheckpointmetro stationrailway stationstagestation beaconsstation camerasstation guardsstation policestation sensorsstation troopssteptrain station
Collocations
12 entriesbus stationgas stationpolice stationstation beaconsstation camerasstation guardsstation personnelstation sensorsstation troopstrain stationweather stationworkstation
Inflections
3 entriesDerivations
2 entriesTranslations
202 translations across 106 languages.
Abkhaz
1 entries- астанциа noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Afrikaans
1 entries- stasie noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Albanian
2 entries- ndalesë noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- stacion noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Amharic
2 entries- መናኸሪያ noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- ኬላ noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- σταθμός noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Arabic
4 entries- محطة noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- موقف noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- مَحَطَّة noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- مَحَطَّة noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Armenian
3 entries- կայարան noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- կանգառ noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- վոկզալ noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Asturian
1 entries- estación noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Azerbaijani
3 entries- dayanacaq noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- stansiya noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- vağzal noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Basque
1 entries- geltoki noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Belarusian
4 entries- вакза́л noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- дварэ́ц noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- прыпы́нак noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- ста́нцыя noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Bengali
1 entries- স্টেশন noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Bulgarian
3 entries- га́ра noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- спи́рка noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- ста́нция noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Burmese
2 entries- ကားဂိတ် noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- ဘူတာရုံ noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Carpathian Rusyn
1 entries- ста́нція noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Catalan
1 entries- estació noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- ئێستگە noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Chechen
1 entries- станци noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Chinese
4 entries- зан noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- зандо noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- станция noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- 站 noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 站 noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 站 noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Corsican
1 entries- stazione noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Czech
3 entries- nádraží noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- stanice noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- zastávka noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Danish
1 entries- station noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Dari
1 entries- اِیسْتْگَاه noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Dutch
2 entries- halte noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- station noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Eastern Min Chinese
1 entries- 站 noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Esperanto
2 entries- stacidomo noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- stacio noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Estonian
3 entries- jaam noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- peatus noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- vaksal noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Finnish
1 entries- asema noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
French
2 entries- gare noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- station noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Galician
1 entries- estación noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Georgian
2 entries- ვაგზალი noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- სადგური noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
German
2 entries- Bahnhof noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- Station noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Greek
2 entries- στάθμευση noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- σταθμός noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Gujarati
1 entries- સ્ટેશન noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Hakka Chinese
1 entries- 站 noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Hebrew
1 entries- תַּחֲנָה noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Hindi
1 entries- स्टेशन noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Hungarian
1 entries- állomás noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Icelandic
1 entries- stöð noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Ido
1 entries- staciono noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Indonesian
1 entries- stasiun noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Interlingua
1 entries- station noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Iranian Persian
1 entries- ایسْتْگاه noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Irish
1 entries- stáisiún noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Italian
2 entries- fermata noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- stazione noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Japanese
4 entries- 停留所 noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- 停車場 noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- 宿場 noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- 駅 noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Kannada
1 entries- ನಿಲ್ದಾಣ noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Kazakh
4 entries- аялдама noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- бекет noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- вокзал noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- станса noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Khmer
4 entries- ចំណត noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- ជំហប់ noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- ដំណាក់ noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- ស្ថានីយ noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Korean
4 entries- 역 noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- 정거장 noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- 정류장 noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- 터미널 noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Kyrgyz
3 entries- аялдама noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- вокзал noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- станция noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Lao
1 entries- ສະຖານີ noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Latvian
1 entries- stacija noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Lithuanian
1 entries- stotis noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Lü
1 entries- ᦈᦱᧃᧈ noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Macedonian
1 entries- станица noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Malay
2 entries- balai noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- stesen noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Malayalam
1 entries- സ്റ്റേഷൻ noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Maltese
2 entries- l-istazzjon noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- stazzjon noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Marathi
2 entries- स्टेशन noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- स्थानक noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Mongolian
4 entries- вокзал noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- станц noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- өртөө noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- ᠥᠷᠲᠡᠭᠡ noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Māori
1 entries- teihana noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Neapolitan
1 entries- stazzione noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Northern Kurdish
2 entries- îstasyon noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- îstgeh noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- stasjon noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- stasjon noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Odia
1 entries- ଷ୍ଟେସନ noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Ottoman Turkish
3 entries- استاسیون noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- طوراق noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- غار noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Pannonian Rusyn
2 entries- станїца noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- штация noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Pashto
3 entries- اېستګا noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- سټېشن noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- ټيسن noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Stazion noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Polish
3 entries- dworzec noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- przystanek noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- stacja noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Portuguese
1 entries- estação noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Punjabi
2 entries- سٹیشَن noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- ਸਟੇਸ਼ਨ noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Romanian
2 entries- gară noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- stație noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Romansch
1 entries- staziun noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Russian
3 entries- вокза́л noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- остано́вка noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- ста́нция noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- stèisean noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- kȍlodvōr noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- stànica noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- ко̏лодво̄р noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- ста̀ница noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Sinhalese
1 entries- ඉස්ටේසම noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Slovak
3 entries- nádražie noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- stanica noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- zastávka noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Slovene
1 entries- postaja noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Spanish
1 entries- estación noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Swahili
1 entries- kituo noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Swedish
1 entries- station noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Tagalog
2 entries- estasyon noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- himpilan noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Tajik
2 entries- вокзал noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- истгоҳ noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Tamil
1 entries- நிலையம் noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Tatar
2 entries- вокзал noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- станция noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Telugu
1 entries- స్టేషన్ noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Thai
1 entries- สถานี noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Tibetan
1 entries- བབ་ཚུགས noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Tigrinya
1 entries- መደበር noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Turkish
3 entries- durak noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- gar noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- istasyon noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Turkmen
4 entries- duralga noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- stansiýa noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- stantsiýa noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- wokzal noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Ukrainian
4 entries- вокза́л noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- дворе́ць noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- двіре́ць noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- зупи́нка noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Urdu
4 entries- اَڈّا noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- اِسْٹیشَن noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- اِیسْتْگاہ noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- مُسْتَقَر noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Uyghur
3 entries- ئىستانسا noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- بېكەت noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- ۋوگزال noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Uzbek
4 entries- bekat noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- ostanovka noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- stantsiya noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- vokzal noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Vietnamese
4 entries- bến noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- ga noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- nhà ga noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- trạm noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Welsh
1 entries- gorsaf noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Wu Chinese
2 entries- 站 noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- 站頭 /站头 noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Yiddish
2 entries- וואָקזאַל noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- סטאַנציע noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Zhuang
2 entries- camh noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
- ndwn noun (place where a vehicle may stop)
Sample sentences
45 total sentences available.
How long does it take to get to the station?
Source: tatoeba (1585)
The train from Geneva will arrive at the station.
Source: tatoeba (1752)
What time will you get to the station?
Source: tatoeba (16252)
Showing 4 of 45 available sentences.
Common questions
What are the closest synonyms for "station"?
Closest matches include place, post, post, affix, anchor.
How should I check whether a synonym fits "station"?
Compare the replacement against real sentence context. This entry includes sample sentences so you can check tone, grammar, and meaning before swapping words.