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English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /s??t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /s??t/
• Homophone: sought (in non-rhotic accents)

Etymology 1

From Middle English sort, soort, sorte (= Dutch soort, German Sorte, Danish sort, Swedish sort), borrowed from Old French sorte (“class, kind”), from Latin sortem, accusative form of sors (“lot, fate, share, rank, category”).

Noun

sort (plural sorts)

1. A general type.
2. Manner; form of being or acting.
   • Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.

3. (obsolete) Condition above the vulgar; rank.

4. (informal) A person evaluated in a certain way (bad, good, strange, etc.).

5. (dated) Group, company.
6. (Britain, informal) A good-looking woman.
7. An act of sorting.

8. (computing) An algorithm for sorting a list of items into a particular sequence.

9. (typography) A piece of metal type used to print one letter, character, or symbol in a particular size and style.
10. (mathematics) A type.
11. (obsolete) Chance; lot; destiny.

12. (obsolete) A full set of anything, such as a pair of shoes, or a suit of clothes.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:sort.

Synonyms

• (type): genre, genus, kind, type, variety
• (person): character, individual, person, type
• (act of sorting): sort-out
• (in computing): sort algorithm, sorting algorithm
• (typography): glyph, type
• See also Thesaurus:class

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old French sortir (“allot, sort”), from Latin sortire (“draw lots, divide, choose”), from sors.

Verb

sort (third-person singular simple present sorts, present participle sorting, simple past and past participle sorted)

2. (transitive) To separate items into different categories according to certain criteria that determine their sorts.

   Synonyms: categorize, class, classify, group
4. (transitive) To arrange into some sequence, usually numerically, alphabetically or chronologically.

   Synonyms: order, rank

5. (transitive) To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.
6. (transitive, obsolete) To conform; to adapt; to accommodate.
7. (transitive, obsolete) To choose from a number; to select; to cull.
8. (intransitive) To join or associate with others, especially with others of the same kind or species; to agree.
9. (intransitive) To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.
11. (Britain, colloquial, transitive) To fix (a problem) or handle (a task).

    Synonym: sort out

12. (Britain, colloquial, transitive) To attack physically.

    Synonym: sort out

    If he comes nosing around here again I'll sort him!

13. (transitive) To geld.

Usage notes

• In British sense “to fix a problem”, often used in constructions like “I’ll get you sorted” or “Now that’s sorted” – in American and Australian usage sort out is used instead.

Derived terms

• re-sort, resort
• sorted
• sorting
• sort out

Translations

Further reading

• sort at OneLook Dictionary Search
• sort in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

References

Anagrams

• RTOS, RTOs, TROs, orts, rost, rots, tors

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan sort, from Latin sortem, accusative singular of sors, from Proto-Italic *sortis, from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?s??t/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?s?rt/
• Rhymes: -??t

Noun

sort f (uncountable)

1. luck

2. fortune

Derived terms

Further reading

• “sort” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “sort” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “sort” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “sort” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse svartr (“black”), from Proto-Germanic *swartaz, from Proto-Indo-European *swordo- (“dirty, dark, black”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?so??d?]

Adjective

sort

1. black (absorbing most light)
2. under the table; done in secret so as to avoid taxation

Inflection

Derived terms

• (illicitly undisclosed): sort arbejde, sorte penge, sort marked

Adverb

sort

1. under the table; secretly, so as to avoid taxation

Derived terms

• arbejde sort

See also

References

• “sort,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French sorte (“class, kind”), from Latin sors (“lot, fate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?s??d?]

Noun

sort c (singular definite sorten, plural indefinite sorter)

1. sort, kind
2. quality
3. brand
4. (botany) cultivar

Declension

References

• “sort,1” in Den Danske Ordbog

Estonian

Etymology

From German Sorte.

Noun

sort (genitive sordi, partitive sorti)

1. kind, sort, brand

Declension

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??/
• Homophone: sors
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

From Old French sort, from Latin sortem, accusative singular of sors, from Proto-Italic *sortis, from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind”). Cf. also the borrowed doublet sorte.

Noun

sort m (plural sorts)

1. fate, destiny (consequences or effects predetermined by past events or a divine will)
2. lot (something used in determining a question by chance)
3. spell (magical incantation)

Derived terms

• le sort en est jeté
• mauvais sort
• tirage au sort
• tirer au sort

Related terms

• sorcier
• sorte
• sortir

Etymology 2

See sortir.

Verb

sort

1. third-person singular present indicative of sortir

Further reading

• “sort” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Friulian

Alternative forms

• sord (alternative orthography)

Etymology

From Latin surdus.

Adjective

sort

1. deaf

Related terms

• sordine

See also

• mut

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??ort]
• Rhymes: -ort

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English shorts.

Noun

sort (plural sortok)

1. shorts (pants worn primarily in the summer that do not go lower than the knees)

Declension

Synonyms

• rövidnadrág

Etymology 2

sor +? -t

Noun

sort

1. accusative singular of sor

Derived terms

• sort kerít

References

Norman

Etymology

From Old French sort, from Latin sors, sortem.

Noun

sort m (plural sorts)

1. (Jersey) fate

Synonyms

• destinné (“fate, destiny”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse svartr; compare Danish sort

Alternative forms

• svart

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /su?/
• Rhymes: -u?

Adjective

sort (neuter singular sort, definite singular and plural sorte, comparative sortere, indefinite plural sortest, definite plural sorteste)

1. black (colour)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French sorte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

sort m (definite singular sorten, indefinite plural sorter, definite plural sortene)

1. a sort, kind or type

References

• “sort” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from French sorte.

Noun

sort m (definite singular sorten, indefinite plural sortar, definite plural sortane)

1. a sort, kind or type

References

• “sort” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Plautdietsch

Noun

sort f (plural Sorten)

1. sort, kind, type, ilk, variety

Polish

Etymology

From French sorte, from Old French sorte, from Latin sors, sortem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?rt/

Noun

sort m inan

1. (colloquial) sort (type)

   Synonyms: gatunek, rodzaj

Declension

Derived terms

• (verbs) sortowa?, posortowa?, przesortowa?, wysortowa?
• (nouns) sortomierz, sortowacz, sortowaczka, sortownik, sortownica, sortownia

Related terms

• (noun) sorter
• (noun phrase) sortownik papierniczy
• (adjective) sortowniczy

Further reading

• sort in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• sort in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From French sorte.

Noun

sort n (plural sorturi)

1. sort, kind, variety

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from French sorte.

Pronunciation

Noun

sort c

1. sort, kind

Declension

Synonyms

• slag

Anagrams

• Tors, orts, rost, rots, stor, tros

English

Etymology

From Latin status. Doublet of state and estate.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ste?t.?s/
• (US, Canada, General Australian) enPR: st?t?s, IPA^(key): /?stæt.?s/
• Rhymes: -e?t?s, -æt?s

Noun

status (countable and uncountable, plural statuses or status)

1. A person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others.

2. Prestige or high standing.
3. A situation or state of affairs.
4. (law) The legal condition of a person or thing.
   1. (Canada, almost always used to modify another noun) The state (of a Canadian Indian) of being registered under the Indian Act.

      He is a status Indian.

5. (social networking) 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.

6. (medicine) Short for status epilepticus or status asthmaticus.

Usage notes

• Rarely, stat?s (following Latin) is found as the plural form.

Derived terms

• status quo
• status symbol

Translations

Further reading

• "status" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 299.

Anagrams

• suttas

Catalan

Noun

status m (plural status)

1. Alternative spelling of estatus

Chinese

Etymology

From English status.

Noun

status

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, colloquial) Relationship status, usually in the form A_ or O_.

See also

• ?status
• A0
• O1

Czech

Etymology

From Latin st?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /status/

Noun

status m, inanimate

1. status

Declension

Derived terms

• status quo

Related terms

Further reading

• status in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• status in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

From Learned borrowing from Latin status.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sta?.t?s/
• Hyphenation: sta?tus

Noun

status m (plural statussen, diminutive statusje n)

1. status (condition)
2. status (legal position)
3. status (station, social standing)
4. medical file

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: status

Esperanto

Verb

status

1. conditional of stati

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin status.

Noun

status

1. status (a person's position or standing; high standing)

Declension

Anagrams

• tassut

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch status, from Latin status.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?st?a.t??s]
• Hyphenation: sta?tus

Noun

status (plural status-status, first-person possessive statusku, second-person possessive statusmu, third-person possessive statusnya)

1. status:
   1. A person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others.
   2. A situation or state of affairs.
   3. 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.
2. (healthcare) A medical file, medical record.

Derived terms

Further reading

• “status” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology

From Latin status.

Noun

status m (invariable)

1. status (position in society)

Further reading

• status in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?sta.tus/, [?s?t?ät??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?sta.tus/, [?st???t?us]

Etymology 1

Perfect passive participle of sist? (“I cause to stand, set, place”).

Participle

status (feminine stata, neuter statum, adverb statim); first/second-declension participle

1. fixed, set, having been set
2. regular

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Descendants

Etymology 2

Noun

status m (genitive stat?s); fourth declension

1. state, status, condition
2. position, place
3. rank, status
4. (Medieval Latin) state (a political division retaining a notable degree of autonomy)

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Derived terms

• statu?

References

• status in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• status in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• status in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Lithuanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sta?tus/

Adjective

statùs m (feminine statì) stress pattern 4

1. steep, precipitous

   status kalnas - a steep mountain

Declension

Related terms

(Adjectives)

• sta?ias

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin status.

Noun

status m (definite singular statusen, indefinite plural statuser, definite plural statusene)

1. status

Derived terms

• bystatus
• statussymbol

References

• “status” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin status.

Noun

status m (definite singular statusen, indefinite plural statusar, definite plural statusane)

1. status

Derived terms

• bystatus
• statussymbol

References

• “status” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin status. Doublet of estado.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /is.?ta.tus/, /?sta.tus/

Noun

status m (plural status)

1. (sociology) status; standing (a person’s importance relative to others)
2. status; state (a condition at some point in time)

   Synonym: estado

3. status; prestige

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:status.

Romansch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin status.

Noun

status m

1. status

Synonyms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran) stadi

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st??tus/
• Hyphenation: sta?tus

Noun

státus m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. status, rank

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /es?tatus/, [es?t?a.t?us]

Noun

status m (plural status)

1. Alternative spelling of estatus

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

status c

1. status, social standing, rank, situation

Declension

Related terms

• statusjakt
• statussymbol