way station vs stop

stop vs way station

way station and stop both are nouns.

way station is not a verb while stop is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
way station	Yes	No	No	No
stop	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, stop is a hypernym of way station; that is, stop is a word with a broader meaning than way station:

way station: a stopping place on a journey
stop: a spot where something halts or pauses

way station (noun)	stop (noun)
a small railway station between the principal stations or a station where the train stops only on a signal	the act of stopping something
a stopping place on a journey	a brief stay in the course of a journey
	a restraint that checks the motion of something
	an obstruction in a pipe or tube
	a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens
	(music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes
	a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
	a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
	the event of something ending
	a spot where something halts or pauses
	the state of inactivity following an interruption

way station (verb)	stop (verb)
	prevent completion
	stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
	hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
	seize on its way
	render unsuitable for passage
	come to a halt, stop moving
	cause to end
	interrupt a trip
	stop from happening or developing
	put an end to a state or an activity
	have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical

Difference between way station and stop

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