EGAVE

status

Academic Word List, sublist 4.

About 80.35 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others.
    Superstition is highly correlated with economic status.
  2. noun Prestige or high standing.
  3. noun A situation or state of affairs.
    What's the status of the investigation?
  4. noun 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.
  5. noun The state (of a Canadian First Nations person) of being registered under the Indian Act.
    He is a status Indian.
  6. noun 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".
  7. noun Short for status epilepticus or status asthmaticus.

Similar words

position condition belonging shape ranking rating establish availability item situational

Often followed by

of and quo as in is to for was

Word family

statuses

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