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Definition of Station house
1. Noun. A station that serves as headquarters for police in a particular district; serves as a place from which policemen are dispatched and to which arrested persons are brought.
Terms within: Squad Room
Generic synonyms: Station
Definition of Station house
1. Noun. A building at a post or station. ¹
2. Noun. An area headquarters for police. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Station House
Literary usage of Station house
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"In the station-house on Eldredge. Street alone, the small, close, ... Sometimes the
crowd is so great in this station-house that the door of the ..."
2. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"Sometimes the crowd is so great in this station-house that the door of the
lodging-room cannot be closed. It is the same story in other police station- ..."
3. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"station house. J. The headquarters or office of the police lorce of a district.
(See Police Station.) Л. In the life-saving service, a house on the ..."
4. Emancipation in the West Indies: A Six Months' Tour in Antigua, Barbadoes by James A. Thome, Joseph Horace Kimball, John Rankin, American Anti-Slavery Society, Simeon Smith Jocelyn (1839)
"Prom Captain H.'s we returned to the station-house, the keeper of which conducted
... STATION-HOUSE AT DISTRICT A. Being disappointed m our expectations of ..."
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