Stature

Definition: Stature

Stature

Noun

1. High level of respect gained by impressive development or achievement: "a man of great stature".

2. Natural height of a person or animal in an upright position.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "stature" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Etymology: Stature \Stat"ure\, noun. [French expression stature, Old French estature, from the Latin expression statura, originally, an upright posture, hence, height or size of the body, from stare, statum, to stand. See Stand.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Stature

Height

Tallness; Adjective: stature, procerity; prominence.

Crosswords: Stature

French (calibre, stature).

This isn't the first time my small stature has hindered my plans. (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás)

Whose behavior is an insult to the stature of Jews all over the world, and to their great and heroic record of struggle against fascism and oppression. (The 50th Annual Academy Awards; writing credit: William Ludwig; Leonard Spigelgass)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Stature and Stigma: The Biopsychosocial Development of Short Males (reference)

• Stature of Thomas Mann (reference)

• False Stature (reference)

• Growth, Stature, and Psychosocial Well-Being (reference)

• Halflings, Hobbits, Warrows & Weefolk: A Collection of Tales of Heroes Short in Stature (reference)

  (more book examples)

High Tech

• ACOUSTIC RESEARCH S20 Stature 2-Way Bass Reflex Speaker Pair (reference)

• ACOUSTIC RESEARCH Stature Series SC2 Center Channel Speaker (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Would a special relationship between the United States and the British Commonwealth be inconsistent with our over-riding loyalties to the World Organization? I reply that, on the contrary, it is probably the only means by which that organization will achieve its full stature and strength. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

He was small in stature, with a furrowed visage, which, as yet, could hardly be termed aged.

He knew her eyes, her forehead, her beauty, her stature, her gait, he did not know the sound of her voice.

As they crossed the hall a man of dwarfish stature came towards them.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Other symptoms may include short stature, increased bone density, headaches, and vision problems. (references)

The maximum increase is found in those of short stature and does not exceed 17 percent for men or 13 percent for women. (references)

Chromosomes carry genes that determine an individual's characteristics, such as sex, stature, hair and eye color, and distinctive family traits. (references)

Business

In 1995, Etisalat set up Emirates Internet (EMNET) Business as an internet utility within itself in order to be able to respond rapidly to market needs reducing response time. EMNET has now grown in stature to become Emirates Internet and Multimedia (EIM), existing as a fully integrated unit within Etisalat enjoying an autonomous function. (references)

Economic History

United Arab Emirates

Substantial development assistance has increased the UAE's stature among recipient states. (references)

Bahrain

Interpretation and application of the law sometimes varies by ministry, and may be dependent on the stature and connections of an investor's local partner. (references)

Cote d'Ivoire

President Houphouet-Boigny was active in the mediation of regional disputes, most notably in Liberia and Angola, and had considerable stature throughout the continent. (references)

Trade

Kenya

The credit supplied is highly influenced by the needs of the local firm, its stature in the market and the experience and its financial position. (references)

Women

El Salvador

Women are not accorded equal respect or stature in traditional male-dominated areas such as agriculture and business. (references)

Switzerland

Women less often occupy jobs with significant responsibilities, and women's professional stature overall is lower than men's. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "stature": a man of short stature ♦ high in stature ♦ of low stature ♦ of mean stature. Additional references.

Ending with "stature": life-stature.

Albanian

shtat (constitution, height, inches), lartësi (altitude, altitudes, elevation, eminence, headway, height, highness, Hill, inches, level, loftiness, pitch, rise, superiority, swell, swelling), gjatësi trupore (length). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مكانة (position, rank, standing, status), ‏منزلة رفيعة (quality), ‏منزلة (class, degree, dignity, grade, order, rank, standing, status), ‏قامة (figure, frame), ‏قد قوام (figure), ‏إعتبار (account, consideration, esteem, estimation, horn, prestige, regard, respect, status, thoughtfulness). (various references)

Bulgarian 

ръст (growth, height, inches, size). (various references)

Chinese 

身材 . (various references)

Czech

vzrùst (accumulation, aggrandizement, growth, increase, rise), vysoká úroveò, postava (build, figure, frame, person, personage, shape), formát (calibre, format, size). (various references)

Dutch

lichaamsbouw (conformation, external conformation), gestalte (accession, accretion, growth), figuur (character, diagram, figure, image, picture, representation). (various references)

Esperanto

staturo. (various references)

Faeroese

vakstrarlag. (various references)

Farsi 

مقام (Capacity, Dignity, Eminence, Function, Office, Order, Pew, Portfolio, Post, Rank, Station, Status, Title), قامت , قدروقیمت , قد (Length, Size), ارتفاع طبیعی بدن حیوان , رفعت (Elation, Height, Loom, Sublimity). (various references)

Finnish

vartalo (body, figure, radical, stem, trunk), koko (dimensions, entire, fairly, integral, overall, rather, size, the whole, volume, whole). (various references)

French

taille, stature. (various references)

Frisian

byld (image, picture). (various references)

German

Statur (build, figure, figure staturen figures), Gestalt (build, character, diagram, figure, form, frame, guise, image, person, picture, representation, shape). (various references)

Greek 

ύψοσ (altitude, height, loftiness, pitch, soar, sublime, sublimeness, tallness), μπόι (build, height), ανάστημα (build, height, size). (various references)

Hebrew 

שעור קומ�" (caliber, calibre, importance). (various references)

Hungarian

termet (figure), szellemi kaliber, formátum (caliber, calibre, format, size). (various references)

Indonesian

perawakan (physsque). (various references)

Italian

statura (height), importanza (account, caliber, calibre, concern, concernment, consequence, import, importance, magnitude, matter, moment, momentousness, prominence, prominency, significance), altezza (altitude, breadth, depth, height, highness, loftiness, pitch, rise, width). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

背丈 (height), 丈 (all, as, height, just, length, measure, only). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たいく (constitution, physique, the body), たけ (all, another family, bamboo, height, length, measure, middle, mountain, peak), し�"ちょう (brand new, discretion, elongation, expansion, extension, height, profound, prudence, Shinchou, the Manchu Dynasty, uncompression), うわぜい (height), せたけ (height), せい (cause, companion, control, energy, establishment, family name, fault, gender, government, height, holding back, imperial command, laws, -made, make, military strength, organization, reason, regular, regulation, restraint, sex, spirit, suppression, surname, system, threaten, true). (various references)

Korean 

키. (various references)

Manx

mooadys (amount, amplitude, artificialness, augmentation, capacity, dimension, extravagance, greatness, huge, increase, largeness, magnitude, size), mooads (bigness, bulk, largeness, magnitude), ardjid (loudness, prominence, size, steepness). (various references)

Pig Latin

aturestay

Polish

postawa, budowa ciała. (various references)

Portuguese

altura (altitude, eminence, height, inch, loftiness). (various references)

Romanian

staturã (figure, height, inch, make), stat (country, figure, height, list, polity, power, remaining, state, stopping), talie (bodice, body, corsage, figure, make, middle, size, waist, waistline), fãpturã (being, build, creature, figure, form, shape), dimensiuni (measure), boi (diddle, dye, paint, whitewash). (various references)

Russian 

рост (development, growth, height, increase, rise, upgrowth). (various references)

Scottish

duìdseag (a plump woman of low stature). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

stas (build, inches, physique), ugled (escutcheon, goodwill, image, name, reputation, repute, standing, status). (various references)

Spanish

estatura (height, inches). (various references)

Swedish

resning (erection, insurrection, raising, rebellion, review, revolt, rising, uprising), kroppsstorlek. (various references)

Turkish

kişilik (character, fiber, fibre, for ... persons, for person, humanity, identity, personality, seated, seater, self), endam (figure, shape), boy (bulk, clan, height, length, linear measurement, size, tribe), önem (accent, account, amount, consequence, consideration, emphasis, gravity, import, importance, interest, magnitude, matter, moment, prominence, regard, significance, significancy, strength, stress, substantiality, value, weight). (various references)

Ukrainian

статура (frame), властивість (affections, appanage, attribute, character, incorruptibility, order, quality, terror), висота (altitude, eminence, height, highness, inches). (various references)

Vietnamese 

mức phát triển. (various references)

Welsh

safiad (stand, standing), taldra (loftiness, tallness), maintioli (size), corffolaeth (bodily form). (various references)

statura, staturae, staturam. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "stature": statures. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Stature" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Attaturk, Sattaur, satur, satura, saturd, Saturdee, Siaguru, Stachura, stanture, statuer, statuere, stoure. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: astute, stater, statue, taster, taters, tauter, tetras, treats, truest, urates, utters.

-2 letters: aster, aures, rates, saute, stare, start, state, strut, sturt, sutra, sutta, tares, tarts, taste, tater, tates, tauts, tears, teats, testa, tetra, treat, trets, trues, trust, urase, urate, ureas, ursae, utter.

-3 letters: ares, arse, arts, ates, ears, east, eats, eras, erst, etas.

+1 letter: abutters, lustrate, maturest, outrates, outstare, quartets, saturate, squatter, statures, tartufes, taunters, tuateras, tutelars, upstater.

+2 letters: abruptest, austerest, austerity, auteurist, butyrates, cutwaters, earthnuts, eructates, frustrate, literatus, lustrated, lustrates, maturates, obturates, outstared, outstares, outtrades, rebuttals, resultant, rusticate, saturated, saturates, squatters, squattier, substrate, tabourets, tartuffes, tautomers, tessitura, transmute, truncates, trustable, tutorages, upstarted, upstaters, urticates.

+3 letters: abstrusest, acquitters, attributes, auteurists, autoroutes, autostrade, barquettes, butterfats, curettages, deuterates, elutriates, frustrated, frustrates, gastrulate, gratitudes, gratuities, gratulates, illustrate, masturbate, maturities, menstruate, metatarsus, micturates, neutralist, outercoats, outsmarted, outstarted, quartettes, quartzites, reductants, reluctates, restaurant, resultants, rusticated, rusticates, scattergun, squattered, statuaries, staurolite, stridulate, substrates, subtracted, subtracter, superstate, tablatures, tessituras, testicular, textuaries, titularies, transmuted, transmutes, transudate, traumatise, tribulates, tribunates, triturates, truantries, turbinates, turntables, tutelaries, ultraheats, understate, unsaturate, utterances, waterspout.