status B1 Topic:People & Society US /ˈsteɪt.əs/ UK /ˈsteɪ.təs/ See IPA manual Freq #3107 Meanings 1 noun A person's position or rank compared to others in society. Owning a large house was a sign of high status. 2 noun Respect and high standing in the eyes of others. Winning the award gave her real status in the company. 3 noun The current situation or state of something. What's the status of the investigation? 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 Common collocations social status Adjective + noun Etymology AI details A learned borrowing from Latin status. A doublet of state and estate. *steh₂- Proto-Indo-European status Latin View etymology graph -> Topics People & Society Describing Qualities External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # status **Type:** Word **Level:** B1 **Part of speech:** noun **IPA (US):** /ˈsteɪt.əs/ **IPA (UK):** /ˈsteɪ.təs/ **Frequency rank:** 3107 ## Meanings 1. A person's position or rank compared to others in society. 2. Respect and high standing in the eyes of others. 3. The current situation or state of something. 4. A short message a user posts on a social app for others to see. ## Examples - Owning a large house was a sign of high status. - Winning the award gave her real status in the company. - What's the status of the investigation? - I'm just about to update my status to "busy". ## Derived Forms - antistatus - high-status - immunostatus - low-status - multistatus - nonstatus - serostatus - statusful - statusless - statusmaxx - substatus - superstatus ## Roots and Affixes - Root: *steh₂- - Root: status ## Etymology A learned borrowing from Latin status. A doublet of state and estate. ## AI Etymology Status is a learned borrowing from Latin status. A doublet of state and estate. In present-day use, it can mean a person's position or rank compared to others in society, or respect and high standing in the eyes of others. Derived formations include antistatus, high-status, immunostatus, low-status, multistatus. ## Topics - People & Society - Describing Qualities markdown