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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/status/#m1)

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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/status/#m2)

3) A status (or status update) is a short message someone posts online about what they are doing or feeling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/status/#m3)

4) (formal) Your legal status is your official position: married, a citizen, a student. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/status/#m4)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/status/#x1)
- The airport screen shows the status of each flight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/status/#x2)
- What's the status of your homework? Nearly done! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/status/#x3)
- She posted a status about her new puppy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/status/#x4)
- A fancy car can be a status symbol. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/status/#x5)
- Fill in your status on the form: student or teacher. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/status/#x6)
- Never share where you live in a status update. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/status/#x7)
- They affected to ignore her as of an inferior social status to themselves, and she despised their light talk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/status/#x8)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/59-china-modern-china-space-and-contested-topics/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «status» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/status/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.