Meaning of status | Babel Free
ˈsteɪ.təsDefinitions
- status (prestige or high standing)
- status (standing)
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A person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others. countable, uncountable
- status (notification in social networking)
- 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...
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Prestige or high standing. countable, uncountable
- state (situation)
- L. status, estado o condición;___ asthmaticus → ___ asmaticus, condición de un ataque de asma agudo;
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A situation or state of affairs. countable, uncountable
- Position relative to that of others; standing: Her status is that of a guest.
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The legal condition of a person or thing. countable, uncountable
- High standing; prestige: a position of status in the community.
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The state (of a Canadian First Nations person) of being registered under the Indian Act. Canada, countable, uncountable, usually
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Law The legal character or condition of a person or thing: the status of a minor. Law
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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
- The state of affairs; the situation: What is the status of the negotiations? See Synonyms at state.
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Short for status epilepticus or status asthmaticus. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable
- (Sociology) a social or professional position, condition, or standing to which varying degrees of responsibility, privilege, and esteem are attached
- the relative position or standing of a person or thing
- a high position or standing; prestige: he has acquired a new status since he has been in that job.
- (Law) the legal standing or condition of a person
Equivalents
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
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
See also
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