Status
['steɪtəs] or ['stetəs]
Definition
(noun.) the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society; 'he had the status of a minor'; 'the novel attained the status of a classic'; 'atheists do not enjoy a favorable position in American life'.
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Definition
(n.) State; condition; position of affairs.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [L.] Standing, rank, station, condition.
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Definition
n. state: condition: rank.
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Examples
- The question is now as to its status as a means of realizing something else, which is then the invaluable of that situation. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- At the present time (1910) the Edison storage-battery enterprise is in its early stages of growth, and its status may be compared with that of the electric-light system about the year 1881. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He fixed the status of women, the status of labourers, the status of the peasant; they all struggle to this day in the net of his hard definitions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Our economic conditions still relegate many men to a servile status. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I mean in knowledge and skill; not in social status, for our medical men are most of them connected with respectable townspeople here. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- To SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any particular state visit http://pglaf. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It had now reached a successful status of achievement and during the early years of that century was to display a remarkable progress. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his case. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Miss Van Campen had accepted the status that we were great friends because she got a great amount of work out of Catherine. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- They found too much comfort in a change of legal status. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The authors believe that this explanation will reveal a status of Edison in relation to the subject that has thus far been unknown to the public. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The Foundation makes no representations concerning the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United States. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- This status was maintained for about half an hour. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The question is now as to its status as a means of realizing something else, which is then the invaluable of that situation. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- At the present time (1910) the Edison storage-battery enterprise is in its early stages of growth, and its status may be compared with that of the electric-light system about the year 1881. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He fixed the status of women, the status of labourers, the status of the peasant; they all struggle to this day in the net of his hard definitions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Our economic conditions still relegate many men to a servile status. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I mean in knowledge and skill; not in social status, for our medical men are most of them connected with respectable townspeople here. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- To SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any particular state visit http://pglaf. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It had now reached a successful status of achievement and during the early years of that century was to display a remarkable progress. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his case. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Miss Van Campen had accepted the status that we were great friends because she got a great amount of work out of Catherine. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- They found too much comfort in a change of legal status. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The authors believe that this explanation will reveal a status of Edison in relation to the subject that has thus far been unknown to the public. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The Foundation makes no representations concerning the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United States. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- This status was maintained for about half an hour. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
Typist: Vern