status
nounEtymology
A learned borrowing from Latin status. A doublet of state and estate.
- learned borrowing from status
Definitions
A person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others.
- Superstition is highly correlated with economic status.
Prestige or high standing.
- The king has status in his kingdom, and the pauper has status within his immediate group of peers.
- It is no secret that the military was a bastion of racism and sexism keeping blacks and women in the housekeeping and other non-status jobs.
A situation or state of affairs.
- What's the status of the investigation?
- New York is known for its status as a financial center.
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The legal condition of a person or thing.
A function of some instant messaging applications, whereby a user may post a message that…
A function of some instant messaging applications, whereby a user may post a message that appears automatically to other users, if they attempt to make contact.
- I'm just about to update my status to "busy".
- I read your status last night / You posted that someone else was holding you tight
Short for status epilepticus or status asthmaticus.
The neighborhood
Derived
achieved status, antistatus, ascribed status, civil status, flight status, high-status, immunostatus, in status nascendi, low-status, marital status, master status, multistatus, nonstatus, non-status Indian, relationship status, senior status, serostatus, social status, status absolutus, status ailment, status bar, status card, status conference, status constructus, status dramaticus, status effect, statusful, status group, status Indian, status in quo, statusless, status line, statusmaxx, status mixtus, status offender, status offense, status quo, status quo ante, status quoism, status quoist · +8 more
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for status. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA