/ˈsteɪtjuːs/, (now usu.) statuses /ˈsteɪtəsɪz/, (rare) statusses /ˈsteɪtəsɪz/.statusn.adj.
/ˈsteɪtəs/, U.S. /ˈsteɪdəs/, /ˈstædəs//ˈsteɪtjuːs/, (now usu.) statuses /ˈsteɪtəsɪz/, (rare) statusses /ˈsteɪtəsɪz/. A. n.† 1.
a. The physical height of a person or thing; = stature n. 1. Also figurative: the highest degree or acme of something. Obsolete.
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the world > life > the body > bodily height > [noun]
wastumOE
staturec1380
pitch1575
status1577
one's lengtha1586
inchesa1616
standard1833
the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > perfection > [noun] > peak of perfection
perfection1340
pointc1400
pinnaclec1450
firmament1526
tipe1548
vertical point1559
acmea1568
status1577
summity1588
sublimation1591
turret1593
topgallant1597
non ultra?1606
vertical1611
non plus ultra1647
ne ultraa1657
verticle1658
summit1661
ne plus ultra1664
ne plus1665
nonplus1670
tip-top1702
pink1720
sublime1748
eminencea1854
it1896
the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > increase to highest point or degree > highest point of increase
status1577
apex1624
sublimity1637
climax1647
culmination1657
acme1761
boiling-point1773
crescendo1925
1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. iii. xxii. f. 119v/2, in R. Holinshed Chron. I The height of a man is Status, & supposed to be all one with the lesser fadam, or extention of his armes.
1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures lvi. 221 The Status of this Monster was seven and twenty spans high.
1664 J. Evelyn Sylva xxix. 90 It should be in this status, vigour and perfection of Trees, that a Felling should be celebrated.
1671 J. Evelyn Let. 31 Aug. in Diary & Corr. (1852) III. 229 The third and last period includes the status or height of the war..to the conclusion of it in the Treaty at Breda, 1667.
1696 B. Kennett Romæ Antiquæ Notitia ii. v. vi. 178 The Catastasis, or, in a Roman Word, the Status, the height and full growth of the Play.
b. Medicine. The period during the course of a disease in which its symptoms are most severe; = state n. 9. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > [noun] > stage of disease > crisis
statea1400
crise?1541
crisis1543
judgement1547
judging day1547
vigour1563
fit1578
indicative day1624
station1651
status1663
acme1682
judicatory1684
solution1842
1601 S. Harward Phlebotomy ii. v. 81 Euery disease hath foure seuerall times, the first is called..principium..the third..vigor & status, the vigour of the disease, when it standeth in one stay, and neither increaseth nor decreaseth.]
1663 Hactenus Inaudita 25 I..only Quære if there be not from the Principium (Eruptionis) to the Status one continued Crisis?
1694 J. Forrest Brief Def. Old Method curing Continual Fevers 140 Not only the Beginning but also in the Increment and status of the Disease.
1753 Philos. Trans. 1751–2 (Royal Soc.) 47 386 It is observable, that from the beginning to the status or acme of the disease, they almost all die.
2. † c. In extended use: personal condition, considered as a classification analogous to legal status. Obsolete.
a. Law. The fact or position of belonging to a group which is subject to certain legal rights or limitations; the legal classification corresponding to this; a person's legal condition with regard to freedom of movement or action, citizenship, the age of majority, etc. Also: an instance of this.marital, residency status: see the first element.
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society > law > jurisprudence > [noun] > state or position from a legal point of view
plight1540
status1767
1767 Ld. Auchinleck in W. Anderson Speeches & Judgement Lords of Council G. James vs. A. Douglas (1768) 67 Such is the status or state of this defender.
1793 J. Boswell Principal Corrections Life Johnson 21/2 To abolish a status [of Slavery], which in all ages God has sanctioned, and man has continued, would..be extreme cruelty to the African Savages.
1865 H. W. Fisher Considerations Origin Amer. War 84 Therefore his status as free or slave depended on the laws of Missouri.
1899 Southern Reporter 25 548/2 If the wife's status as a minor emancipated by marriage could be disassociated from her status as a married woman, [etc.].
1904 F. Van Dyne Citizenship of U.S. iv. i. 301 In international law the status of such persons comes under the doctrine of dual allegiance, each government claiming and exacting the allegiance of its naturals within its own jurisdiction.
1954 Times 22 Jan. 7/6 Many are afraid to take employment..because they fear to lose their refugee status.
1966 G. E. Lenski Power & Privilege ix. 288 Three legal statuses which deserve special note were nobility, serfdom, and slavery.
2002 B. H. Sparrow in I. Katznelson & M. Shefter Shaped by War & Trade x. 275 The Supreme Court ruled that conscientious objector status no longer required a belief in a supreme being.
b. Law. With reference to an organization, place, thing, etc.: legal standing or position (of a particular type); the official classification corresponding to this. Also: an instance of this.
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1813 Proc. Applic. Increase of Capital by Brit. Linen Company 132 The British Linen Company cannot surely claim the legal status of a corporation for banking, if they have not that legal status by their patent of incorporation in 1746.
1841 Answer to ‘Remonstrance & Warning‘ 30 These special laws which set forth the terms or conditions on which only the Church has had conferred upon it its status as an Establishment.
1914 Daily News 6 Nov. 1 The Sultan of Turkey not having ratified the Convention relating to the status of enemy merchant vessels.
1983 New Scientist 24 Feb. 509/1 The Sabah state cabinet is standing by its decision to strip the Klias peninsula park of its protected status.
1990 Times Educ. Suppl. 9 Nov. 11/3 Charitable status for the PTA also allows parents to enhance their contributions to the school, without cost to themselves.
2011 C. Bamford Princ. Internat. Financial Law ii. 13 Whether particular notes or coins are given the status of legal tender depends on statute.
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1828 R. Wardlaw Disc. Princ. Points Socinian Controv. (ed. 4) 553 Every creature, without exception, is, by his very status as a creature, the servant of his Creator.
1897 D. W. Forrest Christ of Hist. & Exper. 442 He says that the status and the spirit of sonship ‘are not only distinguishable but separable’.
3.
a. Social or professional rank, position, or standing; a person's relative importance; (also) spec. high rank or social position.class, high-, low-, social status, etc.: see the first element.
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society > society and the community > social class > [noun]
estatec1230
statec1300
rowa1350
qualityc1425
calling1477
range1494
line1528
stature1533
respect1601
station1603
gradationa1616
ordinancea1616
repute1615
spherea1616
distance1635
impression1639
civils1650
footing1657
regimen1660
order1667
sect1709
caste1791
status1818
position1829
social status1833
standpoint1875
1818 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 276/2 In society..there is a sort of conventional status, which may be acquired by any individual who lives secundum bonos mores.
1830 Edinb. Lit. Rev. 5 June 326/1 ‘The Captive of Fez’ is a production which will give Mr Aird a status of no mean kind among the poets of the day.
1883 S. C. Hall Retrospect Long Life II. 248 As an actress, [she] took a professional status amongst the highest.
1955 T. H. Pear Eng. Social Differences i. 25 Each individual..can have many statuses.
1977 R. Holland Self & Social Context v. 89 Occupants of similar statuses may support each other against threats from members of a role-set, as when teachers support each other against parents of their students.
1994 I. Botham My Autobiogr. v. 80 This was the age of..the elevation of sportsmen and women to superstar status.
2010 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 16 Feb. a22/1 Conspicuous consumption has an inherent purpose as a signal of status.
b. The rank, position, or standing of a thing, esp. with regard to its importance.
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1819 Edinb. Mag. & Literary Misc. Dec. 506/2 For..the status it [sc. the Netherlands] has acquired among the nations of Europe, I must refer you to the page of history.
1885 J. Martineau Types Ethical Theory I. i. ii. ii. §8. 201 Of this Ego, or soul, of ours,..how is it possible, after thus setting it up as a known separate entity, to cancel its status and hand over its contents to another subject?
1890 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 26 154 The medical status of ivory was based on its alkaline properties.
1922 T. L. Casey Mem. on Coleoptera X. 133 Its habitus is so very different..that a generic status would seem to be warranted.
1957 Life 21 Oct. 23/2 The satellite program..never did receive the high-priority status it would have needed to get it into its orbit before the Russian Sputnik.
2010 Independent 9 Oct. (Traveller section) 3/4 Its fine medieval buildings were created off the back of its status as a prosperous fishing town.
4.
a. The state or condition of a person or thing; the current situation or state of affairs with regard to someone or something.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > [noun]
statec1225
estatec1230
farea1325
casec1325
beingc1330
degreec1330
condition1340
suita1375
stature?a1513
existence1530
affection?1543
existency1587
subsistence1597
consistence1626
subsistency1628
tone1641
consistency1690
attitude1744
situation1765
working order1784
faring1811
status1837
figure1858
1837 Trans. Agric. & Hort. Soc. India 4 74 The latter class of lands may be either sandy or clayey; the regulator of their status is the supply of water.
1860 M. F. Maury Physical Geogr. Sea (ed. 8) iv. §236 Diligent, therefore, in their offices must the agents be which have been appointed to maintain the chemical status of the atmosphere.
1889 Internat. Ann. Anthonys Photogr. Bull. Pref. The illustrations give a good idea of the present status of the art in the various methods of printing.
1915 Amer. Jrnl. Insanity Jan. 464 The patient's status is as follows: He is oriented as to time, place and person and has no delusions of grandeur or wealth.
1937 Nature 17 Apr. 683/1 An even moisture status is one of the characteristics of a good cocoa soil.
1971 J. H. Hayes Introd. to Bible p. xv An introduction must be a discussion of the Biblical materials in the light of the present status of literary, historical, theological, and archaeological research.
1985 Infoworld 23 Sept. 47/2 Keyboard lights show..the status of your external printer.
2009 N. Jackson Who do I talk To? 40 I brought the director..up to speed on..the status of my finances.
b. Finance. A particular group of conditions on which the continuance of an annuity depends. Now rare.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > grants and allowances > [noun] > allowance > annual > conditions of
status1838
1838 A. De Morgan Ess. Probabilities 190 This status may be simple or complicated... For instance, A is to enjoy an annuity to the end of his life, unless B should die before C, in which case it is to cease. This annuity will be enjoyed as long as either of the following status exist. A, B, and C all living. A and B living, and C dead. A living, and B and C dead, C having died first.
1862 W. Waterston Man. Commerce 303 Status of an Annuity, the state of things during the continuance of which the annuity is to be paid. A compound status is one which exists as long as either of two or more status remain.
1908 Mining Engineer 32 408 The term or status of an annuity may be a fixed number of years, when the annuity is termed certain, or for an uncertain period to be determined by a particular event.
c. On a social networking site: a posting that indicates a user’s current situation, state of mind, activity, etc.; (also) the feature enabling this. Cf. status update n. at Compounds 2.
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2006 PC Mag. 18 July 1 Before turning off my monitor and heading to bed, I do the most important nighttime activity of all: changing my Facebook status to ‘sleeping’.
2010 E. Currid-Halkett Starstruck i. 3 Between my log-ons, M has updated his ‘Status’ multiple times, sometimes several times in an hour. I know..everything in his daily life with minimal effort.
2012 Irish Daily Mail (Nexis) 18 Aug. 23 She has now changed her Twitter status to ‘separated mum of six with every possible job under the sun’.
5. Medicine. = status epilepticus n. Also more fully epileptic status.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > convulsive or paralytic disorders > [noun] > fit or stroke > epilepsy > condition during attack
status epilepticus1866
status1872
1872 W. Riding Lunatic Asylum Med. Rep. 2 305 The form [of sphygmographic record] showed at Fig. 2 is such as may be accepted as the type while the epileptic ‘status’ exists.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 323 Epilepsy with ‘status’ or complications.
1910 W. P. Spratling in W. Osler & T. McCrae Mod. Med. VII. xvi. 670 If a patient is habituated to serial attacks [of epilepsy], sedatives must be employed early to check them before the more fatal state of status supervenes.
1971 Where Dec. 360/1 There was no sign of epilepsy until she was two and a half, when she went into status (a condition where the fits follow one another without pause).
2010 Seizure 19 199/1 The patient was submitted to a VEEG [= video electroencephalogram], which confirmed the persistent status.
B. adj. (attributive).
1. Having or indicating a high social rank, position, or standing; that confers a particular status or prestige.
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society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > [adjective] > having or conferring (high) social status
consequential1833
status1906
statusful1960
statusy1962
1906 W. G. Sumner Folkways ix. 355 A real status-wife would be obtained by real or fictitious capture and get her status from that fact; that is, she becomes very much at the mercy of her husband.
1950 M. Mead Male & Female xiii. 266 A caustic critic has labelled the one child of middle-class families as a ‘status child’, a child that merely gives the parents the status of having had a child.
1960 S. Kauffmann If it be Love i. viii. 113 A status-car, matched to your income, and a station wagon.
1990 N.Y. Mag. 2 July 36/1 Last summer's status purchase was a Mazda Miata (list price: $18,000).
2007 J. DeFelice Leopard's Kill 169 Being a doctor in great Britain wasn't the status thing he thought it would be, for he complained bitterly of how the patients looked down on him.
2. Canadian. Designating a person registered as a Canadian Indian under the Indian Act, and thus having special status under Canadian law. Originally and chiefly in status Indian. Cf. non-status adj. 2.
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1968 E. R. McEwen Community Devel. Services for Canad. Indian & Metis Communities ii. 21 In Alberta, a Federation of the native organizations including both the status and non-status Indians was formed this year... The Union of Ontario Indians (for status Indians) was established in the 1920's.
1972 Chicago Tribune 1 Oct. i. b4/3 Status Indians..have a right to live in bands on reserves set aside for their exclusive use and benefit.
1985 Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 14 Feb. 5/3 Board members here are uncertain of qualifications necessitated to become a status Metis.
1995 Aboriginal Business Mar. 19/1 Salaries paid to a Status person were exempt providing the employer was resident on a reserve.
2009 B. D. Palmer Canad's 1960s 264 Ten..radicals spent the summer living with status Indian and Métis families in Saskatchewan.
Compounds
C1. Instrumental and limitative (in sense A. 3), as status-bound, status-obsessed, status-ridden, etc.
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society > society and the community > social class > [adjective] > relating to or exhibiting division into classes
stratified1871
status1938
stratificational1942
1938 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 43 526 America never had a working class emerging from the status-bound guild structure.
1950 Southwestern Jrnl. Anthropol. 6 249 All this maze of levels of status, distinctive criteria, degrees and norms of social achievement, etc., has been said to make of the shtetel a most status-ridden community.
1969 Chicago Tribune 16 Nov. ix. 6/3 Her childhood with maddening, status-obsessed parents.
1998 New Yorker 26 Oct. 197/3 The motivation behind India's nuclear program is summed up neatly in this formula: it is status-driven, not threat-driven.
2008 J. Burchill in J. Burchill & C. Newkey-Burden Not in my Name 140 Their weird, status-obsessed spending habits, be it on five types of extortionately priced lettuce in a poxy salad, [etc.].
C2.
status anxiety n. anxiety about one's social rank, position, or standing.
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society > society and the community > social class > [noun] > anxiety about social position
status anxiety1942
1942 Amer. Anthropologist 44 550 From their stories, it appears that another type of anxiety developed as well. This might be called status anxiety.
1971 A. H. Halsey & M. A. Trow Brit. Academics xiii. 329 This may be due to the status anxiety associated with marked social mobility.
2003 S. J. Matt Keeping up with Joneses ii. 64 Middle-class men's insistence on wearing suits testified to their status anxiety.
status bar n. Computing a line or horizontal bar in a user interface, typically at the bottom of the screen or window, showing information about the displayed document, folder, etc.
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1984 Proc. Meeting Robotics & Remote Handling Hostile Environments (Amer. Nuclear Soc.) §3. 365/1 The operator can then touch the status bar on the CRT touch screen and interrogate the system for the complete status of the faulty joint(s).
1998 Daily Tel. 17 Sept. (Connected section) 13/1 In the status bar at the bottom of the screen there are no figures on the ‘At’ and ‘Ln’ positions.
2008 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) Sept. 70/2 Look for ‘https://’ in the URL..and an icon such as a closed padlock on the browser's status bar.
status-conscious adj. aware of or (excessively) interested in one's social status.
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society > society and the community > social class > [adjective] > status-conscious
status-conscious1942
the mind > emotion > pride > pretension to superiority > [adjective] > status-conscious
status-conscious1942
1942 R. A. Cheville Role Relig. Educ. in Accom. of Sect i. 11 To maintain the self-respect of the group, as it becomes status-conscious.
1974 tr. W. F. Wertheim Evol. & Revol. 234 Asian peasants are generally status conscious and..the more prosperous ones often recognize mutual social obligations only towards those whom they consider to be their peers.
2007 D. S. Wilson Evol. for Everyone xiv. 96 A status-conscious person will love his car if it is the best in town but hate the very same car if others are driving better ones.
status-dissenting adj. Sociology designating a person or group, esp. of working-class origin, seeking to attain a higher social status.
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1956 J. M. Mogey Family & Neighbourhood viii. 140 The remainder of St. Ebbe's people we may call, by contrast, status-dissenting.
1998 M. Clapson Invincible Green Suburbs iv. 74 This quote hints at embourgeoisement, as if ambitious ‘status dissenting’ working-class families were atypical.
status enquiry n. Finance an official enquiry into the solvency or creditworthiness of a person, company, etc.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > solvency > [noun] > reputation of
credence?a1513
credit?1552
creditworthiness1832
credit standing1866
status enquiry1877
the three C's1885
1877 Accountant 3 Mar. 1/1 (advt.) Status Enquiries made in all parts of Scotland.
1901 Scotsman 8 Mar. 5/6 [Aberdeen] The status enquiries numbered 2054 during the year.
1991 Economist 12 Oct. 87 (advt.) We can obtain a status enquiry on overseas importers to ensure they are both reliable and credit-worthy.
status group n. a number of people grouped or considered together owing to similar social position or standing.
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society > society and the community > social class > [noun] > distinction of class > level or grade > those belonging to
number1542
tribe1609
species1644
specifical1651
syntagma1813
status group1902
status grouping1920
1902 Census of India, 1901 XVII. 320 In each status-group some als or septs are hypergamous, while others are not.
1922 Proc. 35th Ann. Convent. Assoc. of Land-grant Colleges 188 Upon a knowledge of which depends..the economic promotion of members of one status group to the next.
1978 Listener 19 Jan. 77/3 Status groups—for example, peers of the realm or vagrants—are social networks of those who share similar social prestige.
1994 Pacific Affairs 67 335 Since the mid-1980s, urban migrants have emerged as a new status group in Chinese society.
2011 L. Nevarez Pursuing Quality of Life iii. 63 Elite habits and tastes filter down the hierarchy of status groups.
status grouping n. = status group n.
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society > society and the community > social class > [noun] > distinction of class > level or grade > those belonging to
number1542
tribe1609
species1644
specifical1651
syntagma1813
status group1902
status grouping1920
1920 R. H. Lowie Primitive Society xv. 430 Shall we say that Andamanese siblessness plus status grouping is anterior to Maidu siblessness and lack of status grouping?
1964 Punch 29 July 172/2 We hear a lot about status-groupings in the US.
2009 Irish Times (Nexis) 24 Nov. 6 This is a mean (ie average) estimate..with considerable variation across the different gender, age, and socio-economic status groupings.
status report n. a report describing the current situation with regard to a business, project, matter, etc., esp. one in a series of such reports summarizing a changing state of affairs.
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society > communication > information > reporting > [noun] > a report > of situation or progress
progress report1860
status report1883
situation report1892
1883 Furnit. Gaz. 14 Apr. 264/1 Private and confidential status report respecting name M. Lowe & Son.
1970 N. Armstrong et al. First on Moon ii. 41 The Apollo news center at Cape Kennedy issued a sobersided ‘status report’.
2005 P. Grad Public Health Law Man. (ed. 3) v. xvii. 361 (heading) New policies for the 21st century and a status report on international public health today.
status seeker n. a person concerned with improving his or her social standing, or with demonstrating his or her high social standing.
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society > society and the community > social class > [noun] > social mobility > social climbing or status seeking > person
ladder-climber1870
social climber1894
status seeker1944
1944 C. M. Case Ess. Soc. Values 50 This time binder, memory holder, experience haver, status seeker, ideal cherisher remains always the same.
1959 V. Packard Status Seekers (1960) i. 7 The status seekers..are people who are continually straining to surround themselves with visible evidence of the superior rank they are claiming.
1979 United States 1980–1 (Penguin Travel Guides) 214 There are no phone calls to take, except for those status-seekers foolish enough to have telephones in their cars.
2006 J. R. Talbott Sell Now! xii. 169 Any true status seeker knows that renting a home in an exclusive neighborhood does not confer the same status and privileges as owning property there.
status-seeking adj. and n. originally Sociology (a) adj. that seeks to improve one's social standing, or demonstrate one's high social standing; (b) n. the action of seeking to improve or demonstrate social standing in this way.
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society > society and the community > social class > [noun] > social mobility > social climbing or status seeking
social climbing1886
social climb1904
status-seeking1940
society > society and the community > social class > [adjective] > socially mobile > status-seeking
arriviste1904
social-climbing1917
status-seeking1940
1940 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 45 547 It is undeniable that there was relatively intense status-seeking behavior among the wives in most of these families.
1942 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 47 676 The very pursuance of his first goal had led him into a changed direction of status-seeking.
1962 Punch 31 Jan. 227/3 Status-seeking, broken marriages, intrigue among research staff of Midland firm.
1993 J. J. Piderit Ethical Found. Econ. viii. 242 In a status-seeking society, redistributing wealth from the rich to the poor can make people more satisfied.
2009 G. Miller Spent iv. 55 Narcissists tend to alternate between public status seeking and private pleasure seeking.
status symbol n. a possession or asset which confers prestige, or which is sought or acquired as a symbol of high social standing or wealth.
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society > society and the community > social class > [noun] > status symbol
status symbol1955
status trophy1964
1955 T. H. Pear Eng. Social Differences i. 33 Status symbols are sign-vehicles, cues which determine the status to be imputed to a person.
1957 Wall St. Jrnl. 29 Oct. 1/1 The most common sources of interoffice rivalry over status symbols involve such obvious executive trappings as the size of the desk, the quality of drapes and carpets in private offices, [etc.].
1981 Church Times 23 Oct. 10/2 A fragment of the true Cross—a status symbol if ever there was one.
2002 Sci. Amer. Oct. 74/1 Plasma televisions are the new status symbol.
status symbolism n. the practice of seeking or acquiring status symbols; the fact of being a status symbol.
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society > society and the community > social class > [noun] > status symbol > quality or condition of
status symbolism1957
1957 Wall St. Jrnl. 29 Oct. 9/2 In their place he introduced a highly formalized system of status symbolism.
1968 Punch 7 Aug. 183/2 The main design criteria [sic] of motor-manufacture is now neither comfort nor status-symbolism, but simple safety.
2011 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 13 May 2 b Helen is more interested in the status symbolism of being in charge.
status system n. chiefly Social Sciences a social system organized around the status of individuals; a social group in which status derives from a person's position or achievement with regard to some aspect of the group's activity.
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society > society and the community > social class > [noun] > system of
class1804
caste1816
caste system1816
social ladder1817
casteism1852
class system1877
classhood1878
pecking order1935
status system1939
peck order1950
1939 Jrnl. Negro Educ. 8 559/2 The upward or downward movement of an individual or family in the status system is a process of getting to know and associate freely with a small group of people just above or just below the position occupied by the individual.
1942 W. L. Warner & P. S. Lunt Status Syst. Mod. Community ii. 16 We shall hereafter refer to the eighty-nine behavioral situations (or statuses) as social positions or statuses, and the total social system of Yankee City as the positional or status system.
1978 Listener 12 Jan. 35/2 Our Martian would quickly conceptualise pair-bonding in what we call marriage, scientific organisations in the social relations of discovery, status systems in the relations of dominance and submission, and so on.
2005 G. Falk Football & Amer. Identity 27 Football is an alternative status system in the United States.
status trophy n. = status symbol n.
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society > society and the community > social class > [noun] > status symbol
status symbol1955
status trophy1964
1964 W. H. Auden in Listener 1 Oct. 525/2 This unpopular art which cannot be..hung as a status-trophy by rising executives.
2003 R. Fletcher Bloodfeud 48 Doubtless they bought all sorts of status trophies—fur coats, wine, gold and silver jewellery—which have left no trace.
status update n. an update on the current situation with regard to a particular service, project, person, etc.; (now) spec. an update to a person's status on a social networking site (see sense A. 4c).
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1975 Computerworld 5 Nov. 26/2 Knowing the latest status update on a single custom-designed part is essential to the operations at McInnes Steel Co.
1999 Pittsburgh (Pa.) Post-Gaz. (Nexis) 15 Aug. b4 He said US Airways personnel were unable to answer questions and unwilling to give status updates.
2007 eWeek (Electronic ed.) 8 Oct. In a status update on his Facebook page in the last several weeks, Bosworth said he was creating a Facebook application.
2012 Independent 2 Feb. 19/2 Our flatteringly angled photos, our witty status updates, our angsty relationship changes.
Derivatives
ˈstatusless adj. lacking or without official status.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > obscurity or ingloriousness > [adjective]
namelessc1330
ungloriousa1382
unfamousc1384
unglorifieda1395
unrenowned1525
gloryless1540
obscurec1540
incelebrateda1552
honourlessa1560
unnoted1566
eclipsed1587
irrenowned1590
inglorious1591
ungraced1595
unreputed1596
reputeless1598
unreckoned1599
undistinguished1600
unfamed1609
without name1611
unremarkable1628
uncried up1631
undignified1716
unapplauded1739
uncelebrated1740
renownless1821
bannerlessc1850
untrumpeted1859
anonymous1860
reportlessc1865
unillustrious1885
obscured1891
statusless1899
unarrived1902
1899 F. Swiney Awakening of Women iv. 134 Look at the thousands of half-castes—despised, down-trodden, vicious, and statusless—swarming in all our colonies.
1905 W. O'Brien Recoll. ix. 186 The reporting profession was still in the statusless condition in which [etc.].
1996 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 11 Mar. a1 The island..became statusless when Beijing was given Taipei's seat at the United Nations in 1971.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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