status
Pronunciation: /ˈsteɪ.təs/
The English word “status” has 6 meanings listed here.
noun
- A person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others.
- Prestige or high standing.
- A situation or state of affairs.
- The legal condition of a person or thing.
- The state (of a Canadian First Nations person) of being registered under the Indian Act.
- 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.
Etymology
A learned borrowing from Latin status. A doublet of state and estate. Displaced native Old English hād (“rank, status”).
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