Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The natural height of a human or animal in an upright position.
- noun An achieved level; status.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The natural height of an animal body; bodily tallness; sometimes, full height: generally used of the human body.
- noun A statue.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The natural height of an animal body; -- generally used of the human body.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a person or animal's natural height when standing upright
- noun respect coming from achievement or development
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun high level of respect gained by impressive development or achievement
- noun (of a standing person) the distance from head to foot
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Its good to know someone of your stature is a heartful journalsit!
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Hemight not succeed, but he's facing up tothe problems and growing in stature all the time in doing so.
June 2009 Maxine 2009
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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.
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My experience is that smaller in stature types revert to batons and CS far quicker than those that have stature.
Devon & Cornwall « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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Hemight not succeed, but he's facing up tothe problems and growing in stature all the time in doing so.
PETRONA Maxine 2009
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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 2009
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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 2010
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Hemight not succeed, but he's facing up tothe problems and growing in stature all the time in doing so.
I don't know where we are going Maxine 2009
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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.
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Hemight not succeed, but he's facing up tothe problems and growing in stature all the time in doing so.
I don't know where we are going Maxine 2009
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