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ascribed status

ascribed status noun: the social status that a person is given from birth or assumes involuntarily later in life.

Noun

ascribed status (plural ascribed statuses)

  1. The social status that a person is given from birth or assumes involuntarily later in life.
    • Older societies built their hierarchies on ascribed status, where individuals received their social ranking based on predetermined criteria, such as age, ethnic group, occupation, and gender.2022, W. David Marx, chapter 1, in Status and Culture, Viking, →ISBN

ascribed status meaning in Tamil

ascribed status in Tamil

பிறவி சார் சமூகநிலை

Forms of ascribed status

pluralascribed statuses

Questions about ascribed status

What does ascribed status mean?
Ascribed status means the social status that a person is given from birth or assumes involuntarily later in life.
What is ascribed status in Tamil?
Ascribed status in Tamil is பிறவி சார் சமூகநிலை. See Ascribed status meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is ascribed status?
Ascribed status is a noun.
What is the plural of ascribed status?
The plural of ascribed status is ascribed statuses.

Words near ascribed status in the dictionary

  1. Ascran
  2. Ascrans
  3. ascribable
  4. ascribe
  5. ascribed
  6. ascribed status
  7. ascribed statuses
  8. ascribes
  9. ascribeth
  10. ascribing
  11. ascription

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ascribed status (page history and authors); ascribed status (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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