Definitions for stations
sta·tions

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1. Stations, Stations of the Cross(noun)

   (Roman Catholic Church) a devotion consisting of fourteen prayers said before a series of fourteen pictures or carvings representing successive incidents during Jesus' passage from Pilate's house to his crucifixion at Calvary

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1. stations(Noun)

   the stations, an infrequent religious gathering of family and friends spread over a few days, where Mass and the Rosary will be said in the home.

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1. Stations

   Stations is a poetry collection by Seamus Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. It was published in 1975. This particular collection presents a style of writing which was then new to Heaney, known as "verse paragraphs" or prose poems. He believed this style of poetry was his own invention, but halfway through writing the collection, while teaching in an American university in 1971, English poet, Geoffrey Hill published a collection of poetry called "Mercian Hymns", which were presented in this style of "prose poems". In Heaney's own words "What I had regarded as stolen marches in a form new to me, had been headed off by a work of complete authority," However upon his return to Ireland, Heaney completed and published Stations in 1975. Among the collection are poems such as "Nesting Grounds", "England's Difficulty" and "Cloistered," which return to Heaney's childhood, although the difference between these and earlier poems being that while previously they were written with a child's eye view, now many of these poems where written from an adult's perspective of their childhood self, particularly "Nesting Ground," which shows a more cautious side to Heaney's childhood.

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1. stations

   Plural form of station.

   The train operating company had the responsibility for a number of train lines and train stations.

   Submitted by MaryC on March 6, 2016  

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'stations' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2798

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'stations' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2820

How to pronounce stations?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of stations in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of stations in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of stations in a Sentence

1. Virginie Duval:

   Police stations are swamped.

2. Alan Brown:

   We are not working out of gas stations any more.

3. James Lents:

   The local agency should be fully and independently managing the stations.

4. San Francisco:

   The situation in our BART stations is simply unacceptable, borders on disastrous.

5. Tareq Kharaz:

   We've resumed work at all police stations in Benghazi except where fighting is ongoing.

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