status

«status» in Mova's school dictionary: your position or rank compared with other people… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (status — usually uncountable; statuses in some uses)

meaning for a pupil

1) Your status is your position or rank compared with other people, especially how important people think you are. tree →

2) The status of something is its situation or condition at a certain time: the status of the project, the status of a flight. tree →

3) A status (or status update) is a short message someone posts online about what they are doing or feeling. tree →

4) (formal) Your legal status is your official position: married, a citizen, a student. tree →

sense in the lessons

In history and social studies status means rank: kings had high status, servants low. In everyday life you check the status of an order or a train. Online, children see status updates (safety: think before you post). Phrases: social status, status symbol, status update, what's the status?, high status.

examples

• In old times, a knight had a high status. tree →
• The airport screen shows the status of each flight. tree →
• What's the status of your homework? Nearly done! tree →
• She posted a status about her new puppy. tree →
• A fancy car can be a status symbol. tree →
• Fill in your status on the form: student or teacher. tree →
• Never share where you live in a status update. tree →
• They affected to ignore her as of an inferior social status to themselves, and she despised their light talk. tree →

note

Pronounced STAY-tus (UK and US) or STAT-us (US too). Plural «statuses» is used for posts and conditions. «Status quo» means the way things are now. Do not mix up with «statue» (a carved figure).

In the corpora

• Its status is contested.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «status» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.