Meaning

6 senses

  1. (countable, uncountable)A person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others.

    Superstition is highly correlated with economic status.

    Status

    положе́ниеpoložénije, состоя́ниеsostojánije, ста́тусstátus

    станstan, ста́тусstátus

    the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society

  2. (countable, uncountable)Prestige or high standing.

    Ansehen

  3. (countable, uncountable)A situation or state of affairs.

    Near-synonym: footing

    What's the status of the investigation?

    Stand, Status

    положе́ниеpoložénije, состоя́ниеsostojánije

    стано́вищеstanóvyšče, станstan

    a state at a particular time

  4. (countable, uncountable)The legal condition of a person or thing.

  5. The legal condition of a person or thing.

    (Canada, countable, uncountable, usually)The state (of a Canadian First Nations person) of being registered under the Indian Act.

    He is a status Indian.

  6. (countable, uncountable)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".

    Status

Examples

157 sentences

  1. An expensive car is a status symbol.

    Дорогий автомобіль — символ статусу. — deniko

    ruДорогой автомобиль — это символ статуса. — Hellerick

    deEin teures Auto ist ein Statussymbol. — MUIRIEL

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  2. Do you know his status in the company?

    Ти знаєш, який у нього статус у компанії? — deniko

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  3. What's your marital status?

    Який твій сімейний стан? — deniko

    ruКаково ваше семейное положение? — marafon

    deWie ist Ihr Familienstand? — Yorwba

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  4. Please let me know the status.

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  5. The goal of education is not wealth or status, but personal development.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
person’s position or standing:
situation or state of affairs — see also state:
Русский
By meaning 1
person’s position or standing:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
person’s position or standing:
prestige or high standing:
situation or state of affairs — see also state:

Origin

A learned borrowing from Latin status. A doublet of state and estate. Displaced native Old

A learned borrowing from Latin status. A doublet of state and estate. Displaced native Old English hād (“rank, status”).

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Forms

plural: statuses / status / stati
Singularstatus
Pluralstatuses / status / stati

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
placeA1footing
Close in meaning
  • the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society:position
  • a state at a particular time:condition

Word family

41 related words
Derivedachieved statusantistatusascribed statuscivil statusflight statushigh-statusimmunostatuslow-statusmarital statusmaster statusmultistatusnonstatusrelationship statussenior statusserostatussocial statusstatus absolutusstatus ailmentstatus barstatus cardstatus conferencestatus constructusstatus effectstatusful

Lessons for this word

2 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
statueA2statuesquestaturestatutestatutorystaunch

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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