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status symbols

status symbols is the plural of status symbol.

Meaning of status symbol

Noun

status symbol (plural status symbols)

  1. A visible possession that is a sign of one's personal wealth or social status.
    • There are power mowers, which industry and technology are efficiently building noisier and noisier and bigger and bigger. And it seems that the power mower is something that is a status symbol now, and the rate of status depends on the amount of noise that you are able to put out.1971 August 18, Edward C. Fritz (witness), “Statement of Edward C. Fritz, Air Quality Coalition of North Central Texas”, in Public Hearings on Noise Abatement and Control […], volumes III (Urban...

Questions about status symbols

What is status symbols the plural of?
Status symbols is the plural of status symbol.

Words near status symbols in the dictionary

  1. status report
  2. status reports
  3. status strip
  4. status strips
  5. status symbol
  6. status symbols
  7. status zer0
  8. status zero
  9. statuses
  10. statuses quo
  11. statusful

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Adapted from Wiktionary: status symbols (page history and authors); status symbol (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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