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stature Definition

stat·ure (stac̸h′ər)

noun

  1. the height of a person, or sometimes an animal, in a natural standing position
  2. development, growth, or level of attainment, esp. as worthy of esteem moral stature

Etymology: ME < OFr estature < L statura, height or size of body < statuere: see statue

stature Synonyms

stature

n.

development, growth, tallness; see height 1, size 2. See syn. study at height.

stature Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • grow: A striking feature of our trajectory over the last 5 years is the growing stature of our third research cluster.
  • impose: Man from Mars by Paul ( 1939 ) Mars gravity is only 38 % of Earth's, ergo this Martian's imposing stature.
  • achieve: The dominions achieved a new stature and independence and would snip the final strings that kept them dependent on Britain.
  • gain: Many politicians used the psychological fears of the West Coasters against the Japanese Americans to gain political stature among the voters.
  • increase: By the end of 1978, the failure of the FAO to obtain a negotiated solution increased the stature of the insurrection movement.
  • have: They don't have the stature to do it, " he told the Western Mail.

Adjective modifier

  • diminutive: He was successful in the entrance exam, only to fail the medical on account of his diminutive stature.
  • gigantic: One member of this family, Richard Barwis, was famed for his gigantic stature.
  • lofty: The army of the Philistines was commanded by Goliath who was a man of lofty stature.
  • heroic: This story too shows a primitive form in giving a full heroic stature to Sir Gawain.
  • tall: There are no physical features apart from tall stature.
  • legendary: No doubt, they've earned their legendary stature.

Noun used with modifier

  • world: One ' unknown " he included was Angela Carter who was later to become a novelist of world stature.
  • job: Income job stature account balances by the employe she had no.

Possessives

  • man: But he is growing, and some things that were childish at the first are now of man's stature.

Preposition: in

  • world: Indeed, BAA was about he only publicly quoted airport group of any stature in the world.
  • year: Showmen now travel long distances to take part in this popular annual event which with local support has grown in stature in recent years.

Preposition: of

  • fullness: This is why St Paul speaks of our growing to " the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ " ( Eph.
  • man: Such is the stature of the man that I felt it was important that I did that for him.
stature Quotes

   Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you,That even Solomon in all hisglory was not arrayed like one of these.

—Bible (NewTestament)

So that in the end there were the trees. The boy walking through them with his head drooping as he increased in stature. Putting out shoots of green thought. So that, in the end, there was no end.

—White, Patrick Victor Martindale

And Jesus increased inwisdomand stature, and in favour with God and man.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the L seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the L looketh on the heart.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.

—Halifax, George Savile, 1st Marquis of

Stalin†that great lover of peace, a man of giant stature who moulded, as few other men have done, the destinies of his age† The occasion is not merely the passing away of a great figure but perhaps the ending of an historic era.

—Nehru,Jawaharlal

   Forthwith upright he rears from off the pool His mighty stature; on each hand the flames Driv'n backward slope their pointing spires, and rolled In billows, leave i'th'midst a horrid vale.

—Milton,John

   You see tragedy requires persons of heroic stature. It works on the principle of people being more than humanösuper-humanöand also being only too human. But there just aren't many great figures around now, so the tragic mechanisms can't work.

—Amis, Martin Louis