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fire station

noun

  1. a building in which firefighting apparatus and usually fire department personnel are housed; firehouse.


fire station

noun

  1. a building where firefighting vehicles and equipment are stationed and where firefighters on duty wait Also called (US)firehousestation house
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of fire station1

First recorded in 1895–1900
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Example Sentences

They were across the street from a fire station, close enough for his daughter to yell for help.

“Think about a fire truck at the local fire station in your neighborhood,” Thompson told the magazine.

We locked the gate behind us, opening it only to use the bathroom in the Dickensian Fire Station across the street.

This was barely accomplished when the hurried cab was heard to pull up at the neighbouring fire-station.

He knew that the first who should convey the alarm of fire to a fire-station would receive a shilling for his exertions.

Several exciting escapes were witnessed in the Market Square, and shells fell thickly in the vicinity of the fire station.

It was an old fire station before they put the new one on Goat Mountain.

Britt and his people took blankets from the fire station, and established makeshift camps down in the fringe of the trees.

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