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stature

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Noun
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stat=ure

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun stature has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

staturen. [F. stature, OF. estature, from L. statura, originally, an upright posture; hence, height or size of the body, from stare, statum, to stand. See Stand.].
     The natural height of an animal body; -- generally used of the human body.  [1913 Webster]
    "Foreign men of mighty stature came."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

stature, n.
1 the height of a (esp. human) body.
2 a degree of eminence, social standing, or advancement (recruit someone of his stature).

Derivative
statured adj. (also in comb.).
Etymology
ME f. OF f. L statura f. stare stat- stand

THESAURUS

stature

altitude, authority, caliber, ceiling, consequence, dignity, elevation, eminence, exaltation, face, greatness, hauteur, height, heighth, high place, highness, importance, influence, influentialness, kudos, loftiness, merit, moment, perpendicular distance, position, precedence, pressure, prestige, priority, prominence, rank, seniority, standing, state, station, status, sublimity, tallness, toploftiness, value, virtue, weight, weightiness, worth

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stature

Height

N height, altitude, elevation, eminence, pitch, loftiness, sublimity, tallness, stature, procerity, prominence, colossus, giant, grenadier, giraffe, camelopard, mount, mountain, hill alto, butte, monticle, fell, knap, cape, headland, foreland, promontory, ridge, hog's back, dune, rising ground, vantage ground, down, moor, moorland, Alp, uplands, highlands, heights, knob, loma, pena, picacho, tump, knoll, hummock, hillock, barrow, mound, mole, steeps, bluff, cliff, craig, tor, peak, pike, clough, escarpment, edge, ledge, brae, dizzy height, tower, pillar, column, obelisk, monument, steeple, spire, minaret, campanile, turret, dome, cupola, skyscraper, pole, pikestaff, maypole, flagstaff, top mast, topgallant mast, ceiling, high water, high tide, flood tide, spring tide, altimetry, batophobia, satellite, spy-in-the-sky, high, elevated, eminent, exalted, lofty, tall, gigantic, Patagonian, towering, beetling, soaring, hanging (gardens), elevated, upper, highest, high reaching, insessorial, perching, upland, moorland, hilly, knobby, mountainous, alpine, subalpine, heaven kissing, cloudtopt, cloudcapt, cloudtouching, aerial, overhanging, incumbent, overlying, superincumbent, supernatant, superimposed, prominent, tall as a maypole, tall as a poplar, tall as a steeple, lanky, on high, high up, aloft, up, above, aloof, overhead, airwind, upstairs, abovestairs, in the clouds, on tiptoe, on stilts, on the shoulders of, over head and ears, breast high, over, upwards, from top to bottom, e meglio cader dalle finistre che dal tetto.

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