radio station

See also: radiostation and radio-station

English

Alternative forms

• radiostation

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɹeɪ.di.oʊ ˌsteɪ.ʃən/

• Audio (General American):

  (file)

Noun

radio station (plural radio stations)

1. An installation of a radio transmitter, and possibly a receiver, for the purpose of broadcasting or communication; usually refers to a broadcast station in non-technical usage.
   • 1981, R.E.M. (lyrics and music), “Radio Free Europe”, in Radio Free Europe:

     Radio station / Beside yourself

Related terms

• pirate radio station

Translations

broadcast station emitting an audio signal

• Albanian: radiostacion (sq) m
• Arabic: مَحَطَّة إِذَاعِيَّة f (maḥaṭṭa ʔiḏāʕiyya)
• Armenian: ռադիոկայան (hy) (ṙadiokayan)
• Azerbaijani: radiostansiya
• Belarusian: радыёста́нцыя f (radyjostáncyja)
• Bengali: রেডিও স্টেশন (reḍiō sṭeśon)
• Bulgarian: радиоста́нция f (radiostáncija)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 廣播電臺／廣播電台／广播电台 (gwong² bo³ din⁶ toi⁴), 電臺／電台／电台 (din⁶ toi⁴)

  Dungan: гуонбә дянтэ (guonbə di͡ante), дянтэ (di͡ante)

  Mandarin: 廣播電臺／廣播電台／广播电台 (guǎngbō diàntái), 電臺／電台／电台 (diàntái)

• Czech: rádiová stanice f, rozhlasová stanice f, radiostanice (cs) f
• Danish: radiostation c
• Dutch: radiostation (nl) n
• Estonian: raadiosaatejaam (et), raadiojaam
• Farefare: walsɩ
• Finnish: radioasema (fi)
• French: station de radio (fr) f
• Georgian: რადიოსადგური (radiosadguri)
• German: Radiosender (de) m, Rundfunksender (de) m
• Greek: ραδιοσταθμός (el) m (radiostathmós)
• Hebrew: תַּחֲנַת רַדְיוֹ f (takhanát rádyo)
• Hindi: रेडियो स्टेशन m (reḍiyo sṭeśan)
• Hungarian: rádióállomás (hu)
• Icelandic: útvarpsstöð (is) f
• Irish: stáisiún raidió m
• Italian: stazione radiofonica f
• Japanese: ラジオ放送局 (ラジオほうそうきょく, rajio hōsōkyoku), 無線局 (むせんきょく, musenkyoku)
• Kazakh: радиостанция (radiostansiä)
• Khmer: ស្ថានីយវិទ្យុ (sthaanii vityuʼ)
• Korean: 무선국(無線局) (museon'guk), 라디오 방송국 (radio bangsongguk)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: istasyona radyoyê

• Kyrgyz: радиостанция (radiostantsiya)
• Lao: ສະ​ຖາ​ນີ​ວິ​ທະ​ຍຸ (sa thā nī wi tha nyu)
• Latvian: radiostacija f
• Lithuanian: radijo stotis f
• Macedonian: радиоста́ница f (radiostánica)
• Malay: stesen radio
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: радио станц (radio stanc), радио өртөө (radio örtöö), радио хороо (radio xoroo)

• Norman: stâtion d'radio f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: radiostasjon (no) m

  Nynorsk: radiostasjon m

• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: ایسْتْگاهِ رادِیویی (istgâh-e râdiyoyi)

• Polish: radiostacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: estação de rádio
• Romanian: stație de radio f, emițător de radio n
• Russian: радиоста́нция (ru) f (radiostáncija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: радиоста̀ница f

  Roman: radiostànica (sh) f

• Slovak: rádiová stanica f, rozhlasová stanica f, rádiostanica f
• Slovene: radijska postaja f
• Spanish: estación de radio f, estación radial f, emisora de radio f, radio (es) f, radioemisora f, emisora radiofónica f, estación radiodifusora f
• Swahili: kituo cha redio
• Swedish: radiostation (sv) c
• Tajik: радиостантсия (radiostantsiya), радиостансия (radiostansiya), истгоҳи радиоӣ (istgoh-i radioi)
• Thai: สถานีวิทยุ (sà-tǎa-nii-wít-tá-yú)
• Turkish: radyo istasyonu (tr)
• Turkmen: radiostansiýa
• Ukrainian: радіоста́нція f (radiostáncija)
• Urdu: نَشْر گاہ f (naśr gāh), ریڈِیو اِسْٹیشَن m (reḍiyo isṭeśan)
• Uzbek: radiostansiya (uz)
• Vietnamese: đài phát thanh (vi)

Further reading

• radio station on Wikipedia.Wikipedia