ステーション

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Japanese

ステーション on Japanese Wikipedia

Etymology

Borrowed from English station.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

First attested in a text from 1870.^[1]

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) ステーション (Nakadaka – )^[3]^[4]^[5]
(Tokyo) ステーション (Heiban – )^[4]
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Noun

ステーション • (sutēshon)

a station (a place where a vehicle may stop; a facility or place where a particular operation is carried out)
Synonym: (place where a vehicle may stop) 駅 (eki)
- 2002 April 27, Kozue Amano, “Navigation(ナビゲーション)06(れいろく)　始(はじ)めてのお客(きゃく)様(さま) [Navigation 06: My First Customer]”, in AQUA(アクア) [AQUA], volume 2 (fiction), Tokyo: Enix, →ISBN, page 20:
  
  おいもみ子(こ)　浮(う)き島(じま)への空(くう)中(ちゅう)ロープウェイ駅(ステーション)まで頼(たの)む
  Oi Momiko Ukijima e no kūchū rōpuwei sutēshon made tanomu
  Hey Sidie, take me to the aerial ropeway station to the Floating Islands.
  …もみ子(こ)⁉
  …Momiko⁉
  Sidie!?

Derived terms

宇(う)宙(ちゅう)ステーション (uchū sutēshon, “a space station”)
エコステーション (eko sutēshon, “a gas station with equipment to support eco-friendly electric vehicles”)
キーステーション (kī sutēshon, “a key broadcasting station that provides programming to other affiliate stations in the network”)

Related terms

ナースステーション (nāsu sutēshon, “a nurse station in a hospital or clinic”)
ワークステーション (wākusutēshon, “a workstation”)

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
^ Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 ^4.2 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

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