Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The natural height of a human or animal in an upright position.
- n. An achieved level; status.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The natural height of an animal body; bodily tallness; sometimes, full height: generally used of the human body.
- n. A statue.
Wiktionary
- n. a person or animal's natural height when standing upright
- n. respect coming from achievement or development
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The natural height of an animal body; -- generally used of the human body.
WordNet 3.0
- n. high level of respect gained by impressive development or achievement
- n. (of a standing person) the distance from head to foot
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Old French, from Latin statūra. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Its good to know someone of your stature is a heartful journalsit!”
“The murders are garish and gruesome, as Vail investigates the crime scene of each victim, until an important person of stature is horrifically murdered, changing the whole profile of the killer, but also presenting some terrifying links to Vail herself.”
“The 7th Victim” by Alan Jacobson (Vanguard Press, 2008) « The BookBanter Blog
“Who knows, given the impending collapse of the dollar (with its future value ranking somewhere below Monopoly [TM] money), the currencies of Armenia and the Ukraine just might rise in stature sufficiently to enable the birth of such entities.”
Obama’s Double Standard on Atrocities & Evil « Antiwar.com Blog
“Hemight not succeed, but he's facing up tothe problems and growing in stature all the time in doing so.”
“I doubt such a drop in stature by itself will accrue to the benefit of most Americans, although, being an optimist, I believe Americans will nonetheless live better than they do today.”
“My experience is that smaller in stature types revert to batons and CS far quicker than those that have stature.”
“A good thing, as the show just grew in stature for me as the silent anticipation mounted.”
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“Several people have asked my why "a writer of [my] stature" is self-publishing online.”
“But despite their mechanical composition, the Terminators are — for the most part — smaller in stature than the swift Na'vi, who also have the advantage of free will.”
How Would The Na’vi Of ‘Avatar’ Stack Up Against James Cameron’s Other Creatures? » MTV Movies Blog
“Birds no less in stature, pay their respects on their way to our northern friends.”
The Huffington Post: Jack Schimmelman: Central Park . . . a performance in four seasons (Autumn)
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘stature’.
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jan_21
magoosh listens
infuriating, galvanize, sporadic, imperciptible, shirk, protean, versatile, auspicious, clairvoyance, nary, predilection, inkling and 63 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
grabbable, retuiteando, leaving, fantastic, absolutely, kurwa, hella, ridic, underpass, hate, interlude, plush and 2369 more... -
Words to Learn
colloquium, resilient, ruminate, missive, sylvan, indefatigable, preclude, prowess, quiescent, caustic, verdant, specter and 119 more...
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My GRE
concomitant, mendacity, corollary, mandate, ascertain, exacerbate, substantiate, perennial, exemplify, hegemony, acrimonious, repertoire and 653 more...
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amy's GRE 2012
gimmicks, kowtow, unpretentious, skeptical, cynical, somber, prevaricate, equivocate, requisite, embellish, impregnable, procrastinate and 307 more...
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TOI 25th april
pragmatic, mar, bugle, irk, retaliation, repercussion, onus, ebb, binge, stature, sop, reminisce
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Magooosh
impugn, repudiate, sardonic, barnstorm, bemoan, unseemly, cornerstone, noisome, malodorous, retroactively, spuriously, spasmodically and 217 more...
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oneasterism's words
Words that I like, that I don't use often enough, that are new to me, that friends and family have taught me, and so on.
lugubrious, reticent, eschelon, missive, penchant, copious, conspicuous, tranquil, redolent, asinine, inane, dilatory and 625 more...
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Negasonic Teenage Warhead
"Wow, we really have run out of names."
Codenames of superheroes, supervillains, etc. (that are actual words, or unique spellings of actual words).rogue, gambit, wolverine, storm, cyclops, phoenix, cypher, beast, berzerker, toad, avalanche, magma and 125 more...
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Words of Standing
steed, stool, estancia, stage, stance, staunch, stanch, stanchion, stanza, stative, stator, stay and 180 more...
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_mark's list
Words I like!
( personal list, favorite words, randomness )psy, nanobot, success, smack, vibration, microcosmic, springgraph, marksmanship, estranged, homoerotic, flex, fiasco and 1687 more...
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List 19
Derivatives from Chapter 19 of Part One of English Words from Latin and Greek Elements
referendum, conjectural, restive, circumscribe, benefactor, extant, convolution, primogeniture, stature, nominal, superstitious, tenure and 8 more...
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practice test 1
compound word, semantic, root, radical, coinage, denote, connote, lionization, caprice, equivocal, subcutaneous, metabolism and 68 more...
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Body|Movement
viscera, shiver, adrenaline, metastasis, cadaver, jostling, ravish, swagger, thrive, convalesce, earworm, breath and 16 more...
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Compilation of the Best Words Ever
A list of words I've compiled that I hope to use in works of writing.
cynicism, amble, ubiquitous, cantankerous, nefarious, melodramatic, fugacious, ephemeral, antithesis, sycophant, equivocal, unequivocal and 63 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for stature.
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