stature
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- noun
- /ˈstæʧər/
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estatura
- He wasn't a big guy in stature, but he was one of the toughest men I've ever known.
- short stature
- diminutive stature
- full stature
Which Hickok was giant both in stature and in YouTube views.
- Which Hickok was giant both in stature and in YouTube views.
- And now he was short of stature but very powerfully built and compact.
- There are women that are of larger stature.
- Although small in stature and young in years, I wanted her to be larger than life.
- He walks with swagger amongst the bravos, though he's but the stature of a child.
- Professor Ron, who would come in and determine a decedent's age, their sex, their ethnicity and their stature.
- He's he's a smaller stature dude and he's a nice guy.
- And they're so, so pretty, a smaller stature to plant.
- It is yes, it can and does affect your adult height and also stature and also body composition.
Examples
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Queen Boudicca was of a terrifying stature, amplified by a mass of blonde hair.
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As for the riders, these men were said to be of tall stature, fair hair and blue eyes.
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Although small in stature and young in years, I wanted her to be larger than life.
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Short of stature, long of body.
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It'd be difficult for a man of your stature... ...to keep in touch with even half the people you know.
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Despite his small stature, he's a great athlete and an accepted part of the group.
Fiction book (1999) -
One of the officials of men's basketball stated, "I am of short stature, 5 feet, 5 inches."
Academic text (1991) -
American elms have been prized for their graceful stature and other aesthetic attributes.
Academic text (1996) -
Now, the organ grinder's monkey is tiny in stature, and having been taken from the wild, he's naturally overwhelmed by the enormous world around him.
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He was of short stature but had an impressive athletic build.
Synonyms
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The distance from the bottom to the top of a person or thing
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Having more height than most people or things
How Tall
Surface Forms
Etymology
Stature comes from the Latin root stare meaning 'to stand', and is like the English word stand, so it originally described how someone 'stands' and therefore their height.