Meanings
plural filling stations
- A facility which sells fuel and lubricants for motor vehicles.
Here and there, under the porches of ruined filling stations, in the gaping doorways of office buildings, lie heaps of human bones.
1948 August, Aldous Huxley, Ape and Essence, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, →OCLCSynonyms: petrol station, petrol filling station, gas station, fuel provider, fuel station, fuel supplier, fueling station, fuelling station
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA facility which sells fuel and lubricants for motor vehicles.
More synonyms by meaning
nouna service station that sells gasoline
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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