status – English noun declension

Noun: status

Singular	status
Plural	statuses; status; stati

Superstition is highly correlated with economic status.
This time, there’s no great discrepancy in status; both fiancés are part of the urban, white-collar middle class. [2026 May 27, Judy Berman, “When Did On-Screen Weddings Get So Bleak?”, in TIME, archived from the original on 28 May 2026:]
The king has status in his kingdom, and the pauper has status within his immediate group of peers. [1957, Gladys Sellew, Paul Hanly Furfey, Sociology and Its Use in Nursing Service, Saunders, page 81:]
It is no secret that the military was a bastion of racism and sexism keeping blacks and women in the housekeeping and other non-status jobs. [1979 April 28, Mary A. Lowry, “Those Wonderful Women in Their Flying Machines (review)”, in Gay Community News, page 10:]
Near-synonym: footing
What's the status of the investigation?
New York is known for its status as a financial center.
If the takeover is approved, Comcast would control 20 of the top 25 cable markets, […]. Antitrust officials will need to consider Comcast's status as a monopsony (a buyer with disproportionate power), when it comes to negotiations with programmers, whose channels it pays to carry. [2014 March 15, “Turn It Off”, in The Economist, volume 410, number 8878:]
He is a status Indian.
I'm just about to update my status to "busy".
I read your status last night / You posted that someone else was holding you tight [2012, “Facebook Drama”, performed by Northern Cree:]

A learned borrowing from Latin status. A doublet of state and estate. Displaced native Old English hād (“rank, status”).

Spanish Nouns estatus.

English noun forms of status