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Meaning of status | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1 Frequent
ˈsteɪ.təs

Definitions

  1. status (prestige or high standing)
  2. status (standing)
  3. A person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others.
    countable, uncountable
  4. status (notification in social networking)
  5. a possession that indicates one's social importance. a car, a private swimming-pool and other status symbols. statussimbool رَمْز المَرْكِز الإجْتِماعي символ на обществено положение símbolo de posição social symbol společenského postavení das Statussymbol statussymbol τεκμήριο πλούτου, σύμβολο κοινωνικής ανόδου seisusesümbol نشانه شان و مقام statussymboli signe extérieur de richesse סֶמֶל מַעֲמָד वैभव का प्रतीक, प्रतीष्ठा का प्रतीक statusni simbol státusszimbólum lambang status stöðutákn sta...
  6. Prestige or high standing.
    countable, uncountable
  7. state (situation)
  8. L. status, estado o condición;___ asthmaticus → ___ asmaticus, condición de un ataque de asma agudo;
  9. A situation or state of affairs.
    countable, uncountable
  10. Position relative to that of others; standing: Her status is that of a guest.
  11. The legal condition of a person or thing.
    countable, uncountable
  12. High standing; prestige: a position of status in the community.
  13. The state (of a Canadian First Nations person) of being registered under the Indian Act.
    Canada, countable, uncountable, usually
  14. Law The legal character or condition of a person or thing: the status of a minor.
    Law
  15. 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.
    countable, uncountable
  16. The state of affairs; the situation: What is the status of the negotiations? See Synonyms at state.
  17. Short for status epilepticus or status asthmaticus.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable
  18. (Sociology) a social or professional position, condition, or standing to which varying degrees of responsibility, privilege, and esteem are attached
  19. the relative position or standing of a person or thing
  20. a high position or standing; prestige: he has acquired a new status since he has been in that job.
  21. (Law) the legal standing or condition of a person

Equivalents

Беларуская стан стано́вішча
Čeština postavení stav
Cymraeg statws
Dansk status
Deutsch Ansehen Stand Status
Esperanto prestiĝo stato
Español estado estatus status
Suomi asema status tila tilanne
Français état statut
Magyar állapot állás helyzet pozíció
Bahasa Indonesia keadaan
Íslenska staða
Italiano stato status
日本語 地位 有様 様子 状態 身分
한국어 높은 지위 상태 신분 지위
Kurdî durum stand stand stare statû
Latina status
Te Reo Māori tupu
Македонски состојба статус
Nederlands aanzien status
Polski stan status
Português estado status
Slovenčina stav
Slovenščina položaj stanje
Svenska nuläge status
తెలుగు స్థానం
Тоҷикӣ ҳол
Türkçe durum statü
اردو حالت
Tiếng Việt trạng thái

Examples

“Superstition is highly correlated with economic status.”
“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.”
“What's the status of the investigation?”
“New York is known for its status as a financial center.”
“If the takeover is approved, Comcast would control 20 of the top 25 cable markets, […]. Antitrust officials will need to consider Comcast's status as a monopsony (a buyer with disproportionate power), when it comes to negotiations with programmers, whose channels it pays to carry.”
“He is a status Indian.”
“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”
“The reflexivity is perhaps related to the epistemological-ontological duality which the comparison of lunulae and inverted commas establishes: that the mark both establishes different levels and statūs (plural) of meaning, and signals movement between those levels.”
“Analogically we who observe Luhmann’s theory have two statūs²². ²² The ū indicates plural: status (singular) vs. statūs (plural), and so likewise with other Latin words of the so-called u-declension, e.g. nexus vs. nexūs.”
“11,598,369 Tweets with statūs (hash tags) named ‘love’, ‘happy’, ‘sad’, and ‘fun’ are extracted from 715,027 individuals (twitter users).”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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