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status

/ˈsteɪ.təs//ˈsteɪt.əs/

status noun: a person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others. Also the abbreviation of status epilepticus or status asthmaticus.

Noun

status (countable and uncountable, plural statuses or status or (hypercorrect) stati)

  1. A person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others.
    • Superstition is highly correlated with economic status.
    • This time, there’s no great discrepancy in status; both fiancés are part of the urban, white-collar middle class.2026 May 27, Judy Berman, “When Did On-Screen Weddings Get So Bleak?”, in TIME, archived from the original on 28 May 2026
    Synonyms:
    place
  2. Prestige or high standing.
    • The king has status in his kingdom, and the pauper has status within his immediate group of peers.1957, Gladys Sellew, Paul Hanly Furfey, Sociology and Its Use in Nursing Service, Saunders, page 81
    • It is no secret that the military was a bastion of racism and sexism keeping blacks and women in the housekeeping and other non-status jobs.1979 April 28, Mary A. Lowry, “Those Wonderful Women in Their Flying Machines (review)”, in Gay Community News, page 10
  3. A situation or state of affairs.
    • Near-synonym: footing
    • What's the status of the investigation?
    Synonyms:
    footing
  4. The legal condition of a person or thing.
    1. (Canada, usually) The state (of a Canadian First Nations person) of being registered under the Indian Act.
      • He is a status Indian.
  5. (social media) 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".
    • I read your status last night / You posted that someone else was holding you tight2012, “Facebook Drama”, performed by Northern Cree

Also used as

status is also the abbreviation of status epilepticus or status asthmaticus.

status meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

status in Hindi

person’s position or standing
पद pad
prestige or high standing
प्रतिष्ठा pratiṣṭhā
situation or state of affairs — see also state
स्थिति sthiti, हालत hālat

status in Tamil

person’s position or standing
அந்தஸ்து antastu
situation or state of affairs — see also state
நிலைமை nilaimai, நிலை nilai

status in Marathi

स्थिती

status in Urdu

situation or state of affairs — see also state
حالَت hālat
More languagesFewer languages
status in Telugu
స్థానం sthānaṁ
status in Malayalam
പദവി
status in Kannada
ಸ್ಥಿತಿ
status in Punjabi
ਰੁਤਬਾ
status in Gujarati
દરજ્જો
status in Odia
ସ୍ଥିତି
status in Arabic
تَرْتِيب tartīb, دَرَجَة daraja, رُتْبَة rutba, مَرْتَبَة martaba
status in Indonesian
keadaan
status in Persian
جایگاه jâygâh, وضعیت vaz'iyyat, وضع vaz', حالت hâlat
status in Thai
สถานภาพ sà-tǎa-ná-pâap, สถานะ sà-tǎa-ná, สภาพ sà-pâap
status in Vietnamese
trạng thái

Examples of status in a sentence

  • New York is known for its status as a financial center.
  • Antitrust officials will need to consider Comcast's status as a monopsony (a buyer with disproportionate power), when it comes to negotiations with programmers, whose channels it pays to carry.2014 March 15, “Turn It Off”, in The Economist, volume 410, number 8878:

All 40 example sentences with status

Synonyms of status

Forms of status

pluralstatuses
pluralstatus
plural hypercorrectstati

Plural of status: statuses or status

Origin of status

A learned borrowing from Latin status. A doublet of state and estate. Displaced native Old English hād (“rank, status”).

Words formed from status

Phrases with status

11 more phrasesFewer phrases

Words that rhyme with status

2 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about status

What does status mean?
Status means a person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others.
What is status in Hindi?
Status in Hindi is पद (pad), प्रतिष्ठा (pratiṣṭhā), स्थिति (sthiti). See Status meaning in Hindi.
How do you use status in a sentence?
New York is known for its status as a financial center.
What part of speech is status?
Status is a noun.
How do you pronounce status?
Status is pronounced /ˈsteɪ.təs/ (UK).
What is the plural of status?
The plural of status is statuses.

Words near status in the dictionary

  1. statuomania
  2. stature
  3. statured
  4. statures
  5. staturoponderal
  6. status
  7. status absolutus
  8. status ailment
  9. status ailments
  10. status asthmaticus
  11. status bar

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: status (page history and authors); status (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); status (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); status (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); status (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); status (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); status (Odia, 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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