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–noun

1.	the position of an individual in relation to another or others, esp. in regard to social or professional standing.

2.	state or condition of affairs: Arbitration has failed to change the status of the disagreement.

3.	Law. the standing of a person before the law.

–adjective

4.	conferring or believed to confer elevated status: a status car; a status job.

[Origin: 1665–75; < L: the condition of standing, stature, status, equiv. to sta- (var. s. of stāre to stand) + -tus suffix of v. action

]

—Synonyms 2. See state.

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n.

Position relative to that of others; standing: Her status is that of a guest.
High standing; prestige: a position of status in the community.
Law The legal character or condition of a person or thing: the status of a minor.
A state of affairs; situation. See Synonyms at state.

[Latin; see stā- in Indo-European roots.]

Usage Note: In a recent survey of the Usage Panel, 53 percent of the Panelists preferred the pronunciation (stāt'əs), 36 percent preferred (stā'təs), and 11 percent said they use both pronunciations. The pronunciation (stā'təs) is the older, more traditional pronunciation, and it remains the most common one in British English.

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
status

1671, "height," later "legal standing of a person" (1791), from L. status "condition, position, state, manner, attitude," from stare "to stand," from PIE base *sta- "to stand" (see stet). Sense of "social or professional standing" is from 1820. Status symbol first recorded 1955. Status quo is 1833, from L. status quo (ante) "the state in which (before)."

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status
noun
1.	the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society; "he had the status of a minor"; "the novel attained the status of a classic"; "atheists do not enjoy a favorable position in American life"
2.	a state at a particular time; "a condition (or state) of disrepair"; "the current status of the arms negotiations" [syn: condition]

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary (Beta Version) - Cite This Source - Share This
status1 [ˈsteitəs, (American also) ˈstӕ-] noun

the position of a person with regard to his legal rights etc
Example: If she marries a foreigner, will her status as a British citizen be affected?

Arabic:	وَضْع
Chinese (Simplified):	身分
Chinese (Traditional):	身分
Czech:	postavení
Danish:	status; stilling
Dutch:	status
Estonian:	staatus
Finnish:	oikeusasema
French:	état civil
German:	der Status
Greek:	νομική υπόσταση
Hungarian:	státus
Icelandic:	(réttar)staða
Indonesian:	status
Italian:	stato, posizione

Japanese:	身分
Korean:	법적 지위, 신분
Latvian:	statuss
Lithuanian:	statusas
Norwegian:	status, stilling
Polish:	stan, status
Portuguese (Brazil):	condição
Portuguese (Portugal):	condição
Romanian:	statut civil
Russian:	статус
Slovak:	postavenie
Slovenian:	pravni položaj
Swedish:	ställning, status
Turkish:	statü, sosyal mevki

status2 [ˈsteitəs, (American also) ˈstӕ-] noun

a person's social rank

Arabic:	مَرْتَبَه
Chinese (Simplified):	地位
Chinese (Traditional):	地位
Czech:	společenské postavení
Danish:	status; stilling
Dutch:	status
Estonian:	seisus
Finnish:	yhteiskunnallinen asema
French:	statut
German:	die Stellung
Greek:	κοινωνική θέση
Hungarian:	társadalmi rang
Icelandic:	þjóðfélagsstaða
Indonesian:	kedudukan sosial
Italian:	condizione sociale*

Japanese:	社会的地位
Korean:	사회적인 지위, 신망
Latvian:	sabiedriskais stāvoklis
Lithuanian:	visuomeninė padėtis
Norwegian:	sosial status, rang
Polish:	pozycja społeczna
Portuguese (Brazil):	posição social
Portuguese (Portugal):	posição social
Romanian:	statut social
Russian:	общественное положение
Slovak:	spoločenské postavenie
Slovenian:	družbeni položaj
Swedish:	ställning, status
Turkish:	statü, mevki

See also: status symbol

American Heritage New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition - Cite This Source - Share This
status

The relative position of an individual within a group, or of a group within a society.

Note: Though the term can refer to either high or low standing, it is often used only to imply a position of prestige.

[Chapter:] Anthropology, Psychology, and Sociology

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sta·tus (stts, stts)
n.

A state or condition.

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Main Entry: sta·tus
Pronunciation: 'stAt-&s, 'stat-
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural sta·tus·es
: a particular state or condition <a patient's neurological status>

Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law - Cite This Source - Share This

Main Entry: sta·tus
Pronunciation: 'stA-t&s, 'sta-
Function: noun
Etymology: Latin, mode or condition of being, from stare to stand
1 a : the condition of a person or a thing in the eyes of the law b : position or rank in relation to others
2 : a state of affairs <the status of the negotiations>

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Status

State\, n. [OE. stat, OF. estat, F. ['e]tat, fr. L. status a standing, position, fr. stare, statum, to stand. See Stand, and cf. Estate, Status.]

1. The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time.

State is a term nearly synonymous with "mode," but of a meaning more extensive, and is not exclusively limited to the mutable and contingent. --Sir W. Hamilton.

Declare the past and present state of things. --Dryden.

Keep the state of the question in your eye. --Boyle.

2. Rank; condition; quality; as, the state of honor.

Thy honor, state, and seat is due to me. --Shak.

3. Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.

She instructed him how he should keep state, and yet with a modest sense of his misfortunes. --Bacon.

Can this imperious lord forget to reign, Quit all his state, descend, and serve again? --Pope.

4. Appearance of grandeur or dignity; pomp.

Where least og state there most of love is shown. --Dryden.

5. A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself. [Obs.]

His high throne, . . . under state Of richest texture spread. --Milton.

When he went to court, he used to kick away the state, and sit down by his prince cheek by jowl. --Swift.

6. Estate, possession. [Obs.] --Daniel.

Your state, my lord, again in yours. --Massinger.

7. A person of high rank. [Obs.] --Latimer.

8. Any body of men united by profession, or constituting a community of a particular character; as, the civil and ecclesiastical states, or the lords spiritual and temporal and the commons, in Great Britain. Cf. Estate, n., 6.

9. The principal persons in a government.

The bold design Pleased highly those infernal states. --Milton.

10. The bodies that constitute the legislature of a country; as, the States-general of Holland.

11. A form of government which is not monarchial, as a republic. [Obs.]

Well monarchies may own religion's name, But states are atheists in their very fame. --Dryden.

12. A political body, or body politic; the whole body of people who are united one government, whatever may be the form of the government; a nation.

Municipal law is a rule of conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state. --Blackstone.

The Puritans in the reign of Mary, driven from their homes, sought an asylum in Geneva, where they found a state without a king, and a church without a bishop. --R. Choate.

13. In the United States, one of the commonwealth, or bodies politic, the people of which make up the body of the nation, and which, under the national constitution, stands in certain specified relations with the national government, and are invested, as commonwealth, with full power in their several spheres over all matters not expressly inhibited.

Note: The term State, in its technical sense, is used in distinction from the federal system, i. e., the government of the United States.

14. Highest and stationary condition, as that of maturity between growth and decline, or as that of crisis between the increase and the abating of a disease; height; acme. [Obs.]

Note: When state is joined with another word, or used adjectively, it denotes public, or what belongs to the community or body politic, or to the government; also, what belongs to the States severally in the American Union; as, state affairs; state policy; State laws of Iowa.

Nascent state. (Chem.) See under Nascent.

Secretary of state. See Secretary, n., 3.

State bargea royal barge, or a barge belonging to a government.

State bed, an elaborately carved or decorated bed.

State carriage, a highly decorated carriage for officials going in state, or taking part in public processions.

State paper, an official paper relating to the interests or government of a state. --Jay.

State prison, a public prison or penitentiary; -- called also State's prison.

State prisoner, one is confinement, or under arrest, for a political offense.

State rights, or States' rights, the rights of the several independent States, as distinguished from the rights of the Federal government. It has been a question as to what rights have been vested in the general government. [U.S.]

State's evidence. See Probator, 2, and under Evidence.

State sword, a sword used on state occasions, being borne before a sovereign by an attendant of high rank.

State trial, a trial of a person for a political offense.

States of the Church. See under Ecclesiastical.

Syn: State, Situation, Condition.

Usage: State is the generic term, and denotes in general the mode in which a thing stands or exists. The situation of a thing is its state in reference to external objects and influences; its condition is its internal state, or what it is in itself considered. Our situation is good or bad as outward things bear favorably or unfavorably upon us; our condition is good or bad according to the state we are actually in as respects our persons, families, property, and other things which comprise our sources of enjoyment.

I do not, brother, Infer as if I thought my sister's state Secure without all doubt or controversy. --Milton.

We hoped to enjoy with ease what, in our situation, might be called the luxuries of life. --Cock.

And, O, what man's condition can be worse Than his whom plenty starves and blessings curse? --Cowley.

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