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status
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)
- A person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others.
- Prestige or high standing.
- A situation or state of affairs.
- (law) The legal condition of a person or thing.
- (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.
- (Canada, almost always used to modify another noun) The state (of a Canadian Indian) of being registered under the Indian Act.
- (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.
- (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)
- Alternative spelling of estatus
Chinese
Etymology
From English status.
Noun
status
- (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
- 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)
- status (condition)
- status (legal position)
- status (station, social standing)
- medical file
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Indonesian: status
Esperanto
Verb
status
- conditional of stati
Finnish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin status.
Noun
status
- 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)
- status:
- A person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others.
- A situation or state of affairs.
- 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.
- (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)
- 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
- fixed, set, having been set
- regular
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
Etymology 2
Noun
status m (genitive stat?s); fourth declension
- state, status, condition
- position, place
- rank, status
- (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
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- (sociology) status; standing (a person’s importance relative to others)
- status; state (a condition at some point in time)
- Synonym: estado
- status; prestige
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:status.
Romansch
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin status.
Noun
status m
- status
Synonyms
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran) stadi
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st??tus/
- Hyphenation: sta?tus
Noun
státus m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)
- status, rank
Declension
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /es?tatus/, [es?t?a.t?us]
Noun
status m (plural status)
- Alternative spelling of estatus
Swedish
Pronunciation
Noun
status c
- status, social standing, rank, situation
Declension
Related terms
- statusjakt
- statussymbol
status From the web:
- what status quo means
- what status means
- what status should i file for taxes
- what status is a duke
station
English
Etymology
From Middle English stacioun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman estation, from Latin stati?nem, accusative of stati? (“standing, post, job, position”), whence also Italian stazione. Doublet of stagione.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ste???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
station (plural stations)
- A stopping place.
- A regular stopping place for ground transportation.
- A ground transportation depot.
- A place where one stands or stays or is assigned to stand or stay.
- 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde
- " […] Meanwhile, lest anything should really be amiss, or any malefactor seek to escape by the back, you and the boy must go round the corner with a pair of good sticks and take your post at the laboratory door. We give you ten minutes, to get to your stations."
- 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde
- (US) A gas station, service station.
- 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[1]," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):
- Localities across New Jersey imposed curfews to prevent looting. In Monmouth, Ocean and other counties, people waited for hours for gasoline at the few stations that had electricity. Supermarket shelves were stripped bare.
- 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[1]," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):
- A regular stopping place for ground transportation.
- A place where workers are stationed.
- An official building from which police or firefighters operate.
- A place where one performs a task or where one is on call to perform a task.
- A military base.
- A place used for broadcasting radio or television.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A very large sheep or cattle farm.
- 1890, A. B. Paterson, The Man From Snowy River,
- There was movement at the station, for the word had passed around, / that the colt from old Regret had got away,
- 1993, Kay Walsh, Joy W. Hooton, Dowker, L. O., entry in Australian Autobiographical Narratives: 1850-1900, page 69,
- Tiring of sheep, he took work on cattle stations, mustering cattle on vast unfenced holdings, and looking for work ‘nigger-bossing’, or supervising Aboriginal station hands.
- 2003, Margo Daly, Anne Dehne, Rough Guide to Australia, page 654,
- The romance of the gritty station owner in a crumpled Akubra, his kids educated from the remote homestead by the School of the Air, while triple-trailer road trains drag tornadoes of dust across the plains, creates a stirring idea of the modern-day pioneer battling against the elemental Outback.
- 1890, A. B. Paterson, The Man From Snowy River,
- An official building from which police or firefighters operate.
- (Christianity) Any of the Stations of the Cross.
- (Christianity) The Roman Catholic fast of the fourth and sixth days of the week, Wednesday and Friday, in memory of the council which condemned Christ, and of his passion.
- (Christianity) A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Addis & Arnold to this entry?)
- Standing; rank; position.
- And they in France of the best rank and station
- A broadcasting entity.
- (Newfoundland) A harbour or cove with a foreshore suitable for a facility to support nearby fishing.
- (surveying) Any of a sequence of equally spaced points along a path.
- The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat.
- (mining) An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accommodation of a pump, tank, etc.
- Post assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform; sphere of duty or occupation; employment.
- (medicine) The position of the foetal head in relation to the distance from the ischial spines, measured in centimetres.
- (obsolete) The fact of standing still; motionlessness, stasis.
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.5:
- […] the cross legs [are] moving or resting together, so that two are always in motion and two in station at the same time […]
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.5:
- (astronomy) The apparent standing still of a superior planet just before it begins or ends its retrograde motion.
Synonyms
- (broadcasting entity): (that broadcasts television) channel
- (ground transport depot): sta (abbreviation), stn (abbreviation)
- (military base): base, military base
- (large sheep or cattle farm): farm, ranch
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Cebuano: estasyon
- ? Hindi: ?????? (s?e?an)
- ? Irish: stáisiún
- ? Malay: stesen
- ? Punjabi: ??????/?????? (sa???an)
- ? Scottish Gaelic: stèisean
- ? Urdu: ?????? (s?e?an)
Translations
References
- “station” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004. (Newfoundland station)
Verb
station (third-person singular simple present stations, present participle stationing, simple past and past participle stationed) (transitive)
- (usually passive) To put in place to perform a task.
- The host stationed me at the front door to greet visitors.
- I was stationed on the pier.
- The Costa Rican's lofted corner exposed Arsenal's own problems with marking, and Berbatov, stationed right in the middle of goal, only needed to take a gentle amble back to find the space to glance past Vito Mannone
- To put in place to perform military duty.
- They stationed me overseas just as fighting broke out.
- I was stationed at Fort Richie.
Translations
Anagrams
- sat on it
Danish
Etymology
From Latin stati? (“position, station”), derived from the verb stare (“to stand”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [sd?a??o?n]
Noun
station c (singular definite stationen, plural indefinite stationer)
- station (major stopping place for busses or trains)
- station (a building which is the center for an institution, in particular a police station)
- station (a company broadcasting radio or television)
Inflection
Derived terms
- brandstation
- endestation
- flyvestation
- mellemstation
- politistation
- pumpestation
- radiostation
- rutebilstation
- stationsby
- togstation
References
- “station” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French station.
Pronunciation
- (Netherlands) IPA(key): /sta????n/
- Hyphenation: sta?ti?on
- Rhymes: -?n
Noun
station n (plural stations, diminutive stationnetje n)
- station (place for vehicles to stop)
- Synonym: statie
Derived terms
- benzinestation
- eindstation
- metrostation
- NS-station
- onderzoeksstation
- pompstation
- ruimtestation
- stationsgebouw
- stationschef
- tramstation
- treinstation
- tussenstation
- wegwaaistation
- weerstation
Descendants
- ? Indonesian: stasiun
- ? Javanese: setasiyun
See also
- depot
French
Etymology
From Old French estation, estacion, borrowed from Latin st?ti?, st?ti?nem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sta.sj??/
Noun
station f (plural stations)
- station
Derived terms
Further reading
- “station” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- tâtions
Interlingua
Noun
station (plural stationes)
- station (place where workers are stationed)
Scots
Etymology
From Middle English st?cioun, from Anglo-Norman estation, from Latin stati?nem, accusative of stati? (“standing, post, job, position”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?ste??n]
Noun
station (plural stations)
- station
References
- “station” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
- “station” in Eagle, Andy, editor, The Online Scots Dictionary[4], 2016.
- “station” in John J Graham, The Shetland Dictionary, Lerwick: Shetland Times Ltd, 1979, ?ISBN.
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin stati?nem, accusative of stati?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sta??u?n/
Noun
station c
- station
- A facility used for broadcasting of transmissions.
- A facility (used by a state run department) or by scientists for collecting data.
- Place where one exits or enters a train, bus etc.
Declension
Related terms
- stationär
Derived terms
(facility used for broadcasting):
(facility used by a department or collecting of data):
(place where one exits or enters a train, bus etc.):
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