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English noun: status

1. status (state) the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society


SamplesHe had the status of a minor.
The novel attained the status of a classic.
Atheists do not enjoy a favorable position in American life.


Synonymsposition


Broader (hypernym)state


Narrower (hyponym)bar sinister, bastardy, caste, command, dignity, election, equality, equation, equivalence, face, footing, high ground, high profile, high status, Holy Order, illegitimacy, leadership, left-handedness, legal status, low status, lowliness, lowness, nationality, nobility, noblesse, Order, ordination, par, pedestal, rank, rank, retirement, slot, social rank, social station, social status, standing, terms, toehold


Attributedominant, low-class, low-level, lower-class, middle-class, subordinate, upper-class

2. status (state) a state at a particular time


SamplesA condition (or state) of disrepair.
The current status of the arms negotiations.


Synonymscondition


Broader (hypernym)state


Narrower (hyponym)absolution, ambiance, ambience, amyotonia, anchorage, ascendance, ascendancy, ascendence, ascendency, astigmatism, astigmia, atmosphere, atonia, atonicity, atony, automation, brutalisation, brutalization, celibacy, circumstance, climate, comfort, comfortableness, condemnation, control, curvature, danger, dark, darkness, declination, decline, deification, demand, depilation, deshabille, despair, desperation, difficulty, discomfort, dishabille, disorder, disorderliness, diversification, diversity, dominance, dryness, ecological niche, economic condition, emptiness, encapsulation, ennoblement, environmental condition, exoneration, eye condition, facilitation, financial condition, frizz, fruition, fullness, guilt, guiltiness, hairlessness, health, homelessness, hopefulness, hospitalization, hyalinisation, hyalinization, identification, illumination, immunity, immunity, impaction, impropriety, improvement, impureness, impurity, iniquity, innocence, innocence, involvement, ionisation, ionization, irradiation, lactosuria, laxity, laxness, leakiness, light, lubrication, malady, mechanisation, mechanization, melioration, mental condition, mental state, mode, mood, motivation, mummification, muteness, mutism, nakedness, need, niche, noise conditions, nomination, normalcy, normality, nudeness, nudity, order, orderliness, participation, physical condition, physiological condition, physiological state, place, polarisation, polarization, position, prepossession, preservation, prognathism, protuberance, psychological condition, psychological state, pureness, pureness, purity, purity, regularisation, regularization, reinstatement, repair, resistance, rustication, rustiness, safety, sanitary condition, saturation, scandalisation, scandalization, serration, silence, sinlessness, situation, ski conditions, soundness, standardisation, standardization, stigmatism, submission, subservience, susceptibility, susceptibleness, tautness, tenseness, tension, tensity, tilth, uncomfortableness, unsoundness, unsusceptibility, urbanisation, urbanization, vacuolation, vacuolisation, vacuolization, virginity, waterlessness, way, wetness, whiteness, wickedness, xerotes









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