bus station

English

Noun

bus station (plural bus stations)

A bus station in Kigali

1. A major bus stop, one that serves as a transfer point between a large number of routes.
   • 2000, Lynda Barry, Cruddy, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 85:

     In the bus station the father handed me five dollars and pointed me to the lunch counter. "Get yourself something to eat." He went into the men's room... .

   • 2002, Ted Heller, Funnymen, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 66:

     We're in my car heading toward the bus station to get to New York.

   • 2003, Andy McNab, Liberation Day, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 273:

     The square was near the bus station in the new part of Antibes.

Usage notes

Contrast train station, which can refer to any place — major or not — where trains may (if so scheduled) stop to let passengers on and off.

Synonyms

• bus depot (usually, for one bus operator).

Derived terms

• how do I get to the bus station

Translations

major bus stop, one that serves as a transfer point between a large number of routes

• Albanian: stacion autobusëve m
• Arabic: مَحَطَّة حَافِلَات f (maḥaṭṭat ḥāfilāt)
• Armenian: ավտոկայան (hy) (avtokayan)
• Azerbaijani: avtovağzal
• Belarusian: аўтавакза́л m (aŭtavakzál)
• Bengali: বাস স্টেশন (baś sṭeśon)
• Bulgarian: автога́ра (bg) f (avtogára)
• Burmese: ကားဂိတ် (my) (ka:git)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 公共汽車總站／公共汽车总站 (gōnggòng qìchē zǒngzhàn)

• Czech: autobusové nádraží n
• Danish: busstation c
• Dutch: busstation (nl) f
• Esperanto: busstacio
• Estonian: bussijaam
• Finnish: linja-autoasema (fi)
• French: gare routière (fr) f
• Georgian: ავტოვაგზალი (avṭovagzali)
• German: Busbahnhof (de) m
• Hindi: बस स्टेशन m (bas sṭeśan)
• Hungarian: buszállomás (hu), buszpályaudvar (hu), autóbusz-állomás (hu)
• Indonesian: terminal bus
• Irish: busáras m
• Italian: stazione degli autobus, autostazione f
• Japanese: バスステーション (basu sutēshon), バスターミナル (ja) (basu tāminaru), バス停 (ja) (バスてい, basutei), バス乗り場 (バスのりば, basu noriba), バス停留所 (バスていりゅうじょ, basu teiryūjo)
• Javanese: ngebisan, bis-bisan, setanplat
• Kazakh: автовокзал (avtovokzal)
• Korean: 터미널 (ko) (teomineol), 정류장(停留場) (ko) (jeongnyujang)
• Kyrgyz: автовокзал (avtovokzal)
• Latvian: autoosta f
• Lithuanian: autobusų stotis m
• Luxembourgish: Busgare f
• Macedonian: автобуска станица f (avtobuska stanica)
• Malay: stesen bas
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: busstasjon m, rutebilstasjon m

  Nynorsk: busstasjon m, rutebilstasjon m

• Persian: پایانِهٔ اُتوبوس (pâyâne-ye otobus)
• Polish: dworzec autobusowy (pl) m
• Portuguese: estação de ônibus f (Brazil), rodoviária (pt) f (Brazil), central de camionagem f, terminal rodoviário m
• Romanian: stație de autobuz f
• Russian: автовокза́л (ru) m (avtovokzál), автоста́нция (ru) f (avtostáncija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: аутобусни колодвор m, колодвор m

  Roman: autobusni kolodvor m, kolodvor (sh) m

• Slovak: autobusová stanica f
• Slovene: avtobusna postaja f
• Spanish: estación de autobús f
• Swahili: kituo cha basi
• Swedish: busstation (sv) c, bussterminal (sv) c
• Tajik: автовокзал (tg) (avtovokzal)
• Tamil: பேருந்து நிலையம் (ta) (pēruntu nilaiyam)
• Thai: สถานีรถโดยสารประจำทาง (sà-tǎa-nii-rót-dooi-sǎan-bprà-jam-taang)
• Turkish: otogar (tr), terminal (tr)
• Turkmen: awtowokzal
• Ukrainian: автовокза́л (uk) m (avtovokzál)
• Uzbek: avtovokzal (uz)
• Vietnamese: bến xe buýt
• Welsh: gorsaf bws f

See also

• bus stand
• bus stop
• departure stand
• stand

References

• “bus station”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• sub-station, substation