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单词 station house
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station housen.

Brit. /ˈsteɪʃn haʊs/, U.S. /ˈsteɪʃən ˌ(h)aʊs/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: station n., house n.1
Etymology: < station n. + house n.1
1. A building in which a coastguard or coastguard service is based; a coastguard station.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > official residence > [noun] > of people in specific employment
almonry1440
ferry house1595
prefecture1802
station house1805
pilothouse1812
lodging1826
schoolhouse1842
wardenry1859
adviserate1938
1805 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 1010/1 A lofty point of rock on the Western beach is occupied by a station house.
1833 H. Martineau Loom & Lugger i. v. 89 If they sent an order to all us Preventive people to vacate our station-houses and march off.
1879 W. Rye Tourist's Guide Norfolk 73 A straight cut-way leads us to the sea by the station-house at ‘Cart Gap’.
1931 A. P. Richardson Barnegat Ways i. 14 For eight miles in those days it was uninhabited except where the coast-guards' ‘station houses’ stood three miles apart.
2009 Drogheda Independent (Nexis) 4 Feb. Our old station house had problems with rodents and damp which meant we couldn't store..life-saving equipment.
2. An inn or other resting place for travellers on a long journey, esp. in a desert or other largely uninhabited area. Now chiefly historical.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > [noun] > lodging-place > temporary > for travellers, pilgrims, etc. > resting-place on journey
baiting1477
baiting-placec1530
stage1603
post-stage1642
station1722
post station1749
station house1815
stopping-place1827
stage-stand1856
refreshment stop1880
pull-up1899
1815 R. Johnston Trav. Part Russ. Empire 395 We baited the horses at a solitary station-house, about seventeen miles from Minsk, and travelled the next stage during the night.
1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine i. 8 One solitary station-house and fort marks this wilderness [sc. the Desert of the Tih.]
1923 Pop. Mech. Nov. 730/1 Some ‘jambaz’ dromedaries..would go on even over the next stretch of road as far as the next station house if they were not held back.
2006 B. Ciotta Lasso Moon 55 Mr. Wiggins had left him to recover at Gila City, one of the many station houses situated along the route.
3. A building for the temporary detention of offenders, attached to or under the jurisdiction of a police station (now historical). Later also: a police station. Now chiefly North American.
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > place of detention or lock-up > attached to police-station
station house1829
society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > police office or station > foreign
thana1803
Questura1852
kotwalee1854
station house1870
precinct1894
precinct station1902
gendarmerie1945
kotwali1964
precinct house1968
precinct station house1979
1829 Times 7 Oct. 2/4 A new Station-house for the metropolitan police was opened yesterday in Great Scotland Yard.
1854 John Bull 1 July 411 Whallor was actually taken by a policeman to the station-house, the real criminal accompanying them, as witness.
1870 Galaxy Feb. 272 An headquarters of police..is called in New York a station-house.
1900 Northwestern Reporter 83 1023/2 The answer of respondent denies that any designation of separate departments of the station house for the detention of women and children has been made.
1931 H. F. Pringle Theodore Roosevelt i. xi. 138 He arrived..at a station house in the lower part of the city, and interrupted the meditations of the sergeant.
1999 J. Vadackumchery Indian Police & Equal Justice under Law vii. 160 There exists little or no transparency in police work at the station house level.
2006 K. Burke & N. Hirschfeld Detective vii. 78 On the way back to the station house, I could hear the two cops talking about me.
4. The administrative building of a railway station; esp. that of a small country station. Now historical.
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society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > station
station1830
station house1833
train depot1833
railway station1836
railroad station1837
depot1842
rail station1848
rail1850
train station1856
gare1870
society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > station > other types
stopping station1840
way station1840
flag-station1852
by-station1864
transfer station1869
junction1876
stationette1891
station house1891
halt1910
stub station1916
ghost station1928
whistle-stop1934
parkway1972
1833 Ann. Reg. 1832 ii. Chron. 163/2 The engine of the advancing train..was driven with tremendous violence against the station-house at the side of the road.
1850 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 5 May in Amer. Notebks. (1972) viii. 488 It [sc. the train] dashes along in front of the Station-house and comes to a pause.
1891 ‘J. S. Winter’ Lumley ii. 13 When Jock Airlie and the painter came out of the little station-house, they found [etc.].
1949 Billboard 12 Nov. 60/1 The Foleys and O'Brien will be permitted to erect a Miniature Train, station house and track.
1992 Holiday Which? Jan. 31/1 The Alford Valley Railway Museum.., in a former station house, describes the impact made on Donside by the arrival of the railway.
5. Australian and New Zealand. The main residence on a station (station n. 8); (also) a building for the accommodation of the station workers.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmstead > [noun] > farmhouse
grangec1300
farmhouse1533
farm1583
hall-house1603
station house1840
homestead1849
ranch house1859
1840 Sydney Herald 31 Aug. 6/7 We have since heard that the sheep were not above a mile from the station-house.
1888 A. McKay in Bull. N.Z. Geol. Surv. No. 1. 4 The station-house was so far wrecked.
1894 H. Nisbet Bush Girl's Romance 234 Uncle Timothy, the sole representative of the nobler sex who could keep these ladies company at the deserted station-house.
1933 L. G. D. Acland in Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) 4 Nov. 15/7 Men's hut, house where the station hands live. On some stations it is called the station house.
2009 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 23 Nov. 3 The eagle showed up, defeated, at the back door of a station house outside Broken Hill last week.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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