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

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Simplified etymology

Status dates from the late 16th century and comes from Latin status, meaning “state” or “condition.” The same Latin word also lies behind estate and its shortened form state.

Etymology

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

*steh₂- Proto-Indo-European status Latin

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People & Society

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# 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

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