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stature - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun noun
from The Century Dictionary.
noun noun
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun noun
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun noun
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin statūra ; see stā- in Indo-European roots.]
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Examples
Its good to know someone of your stature is a heartful journalsit!
Blitzer: Obama says Kennedy news was 'heartbreaking' 2008
Hemight not succeed, but he's facing up tothe problems and growing in stature all the time in doing so.
June 2009 Maxine 2009
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.
Matthew Yglesias » Will China Ever Dominate? 2010
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
Hemight not succeed, but he's facing up tothe problems and growing in stature all the time in doing so.
PETRONA Maxine 2009
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
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
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
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.
2010 February 17 « The BookBanter Blog 2010
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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