US /ˈsteɪt.əs/ UK /ˈsteɪ.təs/
noun Freq #3107

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun

    A person's position or rank compared to others in society.

    Owning a large house was a sign of high status.

  2. 2
    noun

    Respect and high standing in the eyes of others.

    Winning the award gave her real status in the company.

  3. 3
    noun

    The current situation or state of something.

    What's the status of the investigation?

  4. 4
    noun

    A short message a user posts on a social app for others to see.

    I'm just about to update my status to "busy".

Thesaurus

Synonyms
1 noun · a person's position or rank... position
3 noun · the current situation or... condition
Word family
Forms statuses
Derived forms antistatushigh-statusimmunostatuslow-statusmultistatusnonstatusserostatusstatusfulstatuslessstatusmaxxsubstatussuperstatus

Etymology

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

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