statement
Syllables: state·mentUK/ˈsteɪtm(ə)nt//ˈsteɪtmənt/
statement noun: a declaration or remark.
Noun
statement (plural statements)
- A declaration or remark.
- make a statement
- publish a statement
- A presentation of opinion or position.
- A document that summarizes financial activity.
- a bank statement
- An instruction in a computer program, especially one that returns no value, as opposed to a function call.
- In this section we will examine BASIC's primary statement for repeating a string of statements under program control: the FOR statement. Another statement, the NEXT statement, is always used with a FOR statement.1981, Thomas C. Bartee, BASIC computer programming, page 110
- However, it is the responsibility of the programmer to ensure that the control ultimately reaches the last statement of the range.1989, M. K. Roy, Debabrata Ghosh Dastidar, COBOL Programming, page 174
Adjective
statement (not comparable)
- Decisive.
- Gabriel Martinelli scored a dramatic late winner as Arsenal earned a statement victory over defending Premier League champions Manchester City at Emirates Stadium.2023 October 8, Phil McNulty, “Arsenal 1-0 Manchester City”, in BBC Sport
Verb
statement (third-person singular simple present statements, present participle statementing, simple past and past participle statemented)
- To provide an official document of a proposition, especially in the UK, a Statement of Special Educational Needs.
statement meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
statement in Hindi
- declaration or remark
- कथन kathan, प्रख्यापन prakhyāpan
statement in Tamil
- அறிக்கை, கூற்று, வாக்குமூலம், நிலைப்பாடு
statement in Marathi
- declaration or remark
- विधान vidhān
- computing: instruction in a computer program
- आज्ञा ājñā
statement in Urdu
- declaration or remark
- بَیان bayān
More languagesFewer languages
- statement in Bengali
- বয়ান boẏan
- statement in Malayalam
- പ്രസ്താവന prastāvana
- statement in Kannada
- ಆಡಿಕೆ, ಪೇಳ್ಕೆ, ಹೇಳಿಕೆ, ಎಂಬುವಿಕೆ
- statement in Punjabi
- ਉਕਤੀ ukatī
- statement in Gujarati
- હકીકત hakīkat, બાતમી bātmī
- statement in Odia
- ବଖାଣ bakhāṇa
- statement in Sanskrit
- वाद vāda
- statement in Nepali
- कथन, वक्तव्य, बयान
- statement in Tagalog
- pahayag, ulat, deklarasyon
- statement in Arabic
- تَصْرِيح taṣrīḥ, بَيَان bayān
- statement in Malay
- kenyataan, penyata
- statement in Indonesian
- pernyataan
- statement in Thai
- แถลงการณ์ tà-lɛ̌ɛng-gaan, คำแถลง kam-tà-lɛ̌ɛng, ถ้อยแถลง tɔ̂i-tà-lɛ̌ɛng, งบ ngóp
Examples of statement in a sentence
- The monthly financial statements show all the actual but only some of the accrued expenses.
- Please don't bombard me with questions right now, I'll answer them at the end of the statement.
- The politician was criticized for his ambiguous statements and lack of precision.
Synonyms of statement
Forms of statement
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | statements |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | statements |
| present participle | statementing |
| past participle | statemented |
| past | statemented |
Origin of statement
From state + -ment.
Back-formation from statementing or back-formation from statemented.
Words formed from statement
- account statement
- bank statement
- blanket statement
- costatement
- counter statement
- counterstatement
- diversity statement
- doorknob statement
- environmental impact statement
- e-statement
- fashion statement
- financial statement
- forestatement
- if-then statement
- impact statement
- income statement
- make a statement
- metastatement
- microstatement
- mission statement
- misstatement
- motherhood statement
- multistatement
- nonstatement
- normative statement
- opening statement
- overstatement
- P&L statement
- positive statement
- prepared statement
- problem statement
- profit and loss statement
- proxy statement
- pseudostatement
- purpose statement
- restatement
- scissor statement
- Sherman statement
- singular existential statement
- singular statement
- statemental
- statement light
- statement of accounts
- statement of affairs
- statement of claim
- statement of intent
- substatement
- thesis statement
- understatement
- upside-down income statement
- value statement
- victim impact statement
- vision statement
- written statement of employment
Phrases with statement
Words that rhyme with statement
Questions about statement
- What does statement mean?
- Statement means a declaration or remark.
- What is statement in Hindi?
- Statement in Hindi is कथन (kathan), प्रख्यापन (prakhyāpan). See Statement meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is statement?
- Statement can be a noun, an adjective or a verb.
- How do you pronounce statement?
- Statement is pronounced /ˈsteɪtm(ə)nt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of statement?
- The plural of statement is statements.
Words near statement in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: statement (page history and authors); statement (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); statement (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਉਕਤੀ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); બાતમી (Gujarati) (page history and authors); ବଖାଣ (Odia) (page history and authors); statement (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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