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status
- /ˈsteɪ.təs/ General South African, Ireland, UK
- /ˈsteɪt.əs/ Canada, US
- [ˈsteɪɾ.əs] Canada, US
- /ˈstæt.əs/ Australia, Canada, Ireland, US
- [ˈstæɾ.əs] Australia, Canada, Ireland, US
- /ˈstæɪ.təs/ Australia, New Zealand
- [ˈstæɪɾ.əs] Australia, New Zealand
- /ˈstɛː.təs/
- /ˈsteː.təs/
Rhymes with -eɪtəs, -ætəs
Where it comes from
A learned borrowing from Latin status. A doublet of state and estate. Displaced native Old English hād (“rank, status”).
noun statuses · status · stati
- A person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others. Superstition is highly correlated with economic status.
- Prestige or high standing. The king has status in his kingdom, and the pauper has status within his immediate group of peers.
- A situation or state of affairs. Near-synonym: footing
- The legal condition of a person or thing.
- The state (of a Canadian First Nations person) of being registered under the Indian Act. He is a status Indian.
- 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. I'm just about to update my status to "busy".
- Short for status epilepticus or status asthmaticus.status epilepticus or status asthmaticus
