status

1. A person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others. (countable, uncountable) · Superstition is highly correlated with economic status.
2. Prestige or high standing. (countable, uncountable)
3. A situation or state of affairs. (countable, uncountable) · Near-synonym: footing· What's the status of the investigation?
4. The legal condition of a person or thing. (countable, uncountable)
5. The state (of a Canadian First Nations person) of being registered under the Indian Act. (countable, uncountable) · He is a status Indian.
6. A function of some instant messaging applications, whereby a user may post a message that appears automatically to other users, if they attempt to make contact. (countable, uncountable) · I'm just about to update my status to "busy".

Plural statuses