(chiefly, British, South Asia, Myanmar) In South and Southeast Asia, a small community located at a relatively high elevation which serves as a retreat or vacation location during the hot summers; his
(chiefly, British, South Asia, Myanmar) In South and Southeast Asia, a small community located at a relatively high elevation which serves as a retreat or vacation location during the hot summers; historically, a village or military post so used by colonial officials.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(British India, with "the") The lowland regions of India from which colonial administrators and their families relocated to higher-elevation hill stations with cooler climates during the summer months.
Indian English: out of town, away from one's usual city or workplace, typically for work or family reasons. Standard in corporate emails ("I will be out of station from Monday to Wednesday") and in formal phone messages. Originates from colonial-era military and railway parlance — a "station" was the cantonment or posting where a British officer was based, and being "out of station" meant temporarily absent from it. The phrase has long since lost its military edge and now simply means "away on a trip", but it remains specific to South Asian English; outsiders usually parse "out of station" as some sort of transport reference.
A station or post in a remote position; an outpost.
(UK, legal, historical) A hill or elevated place where a meeting or council took place in Saxon England.