Definitions for stations
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1. Stations, Stations of the Crossnoun

   (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. stationsnoun

   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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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?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

   South African

How to say stations in sign language?

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. Tamayo Marukawa:

   There are countries that have no choice but to build coal-fired power stations due to cost. Countries other than Japan have also been exporting coal-fired power stations to these countries.

2. Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere:

   I have therefore ordered that the federal police visibly increase their presence at airports and railways stations and that there are random checks, which are not visible but very effective, in border areas.

3. Alan Brown:

   We are not working out of gas stations any more.

4. Northrop Frye:

   A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature. He cannot distinguish fiction from fact, and belongs in the same category as the people who send checks to radio stations for the relief of suffering heroines in soap operas.

5. Daryl Osby:

   As a fire chief, I never thought that when our firefighters face danger, that they would face danger in one of our community fire stations.

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