way station
See also: way-station and waystation
English
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Pronunciation
Homophone: weigh station
Noun
way station (plural way stations)
- A small railway station between the principal stations or a station where the train stops only on a signal.
- (figuratively) A service area or temporary lodging used during a longer journey.
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 201:
- At one of the way-stations on his long journey a barmaid at a tavern speaks to Gilgamesh and tries to give him common sense on the human condition.
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