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stratified

stratified

7.0
People divided into levels or classes with different status
  • adjective
  • /ˈstrætɪfaɪd/
translation icon : estratificado
  • In many countries, the education system is highly stratified, with different quality levels based on socioeconomic status.

I mean, it just, it's unbelievable how stratified the media environment is now.

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Examples

  • It's clearly a stratified society where most people don't have a lot of resources and have very little power.

  • They were no longer in this incredibly stratified and frankly unfair colonial society.

  • I mean, it just, it's unbelievable how stratified the media environment is now.

  • The press was sort of stratified and fractured.

  • So of course, the frustration of this kind of stratified, static, dead intellectual climate that we live in.

  • So of course, the frustration of this kind of stratified, static, dead intellectual climate that we live in.

  • You see this, the seeds of liberalism in its desire to have a a much more open and less stratified society.

  • Strictly speaking, the stratified and feudal Society of the Edu.

  • A stratified society often leads to significant disparities in wealth and opportunities among its members.

  • The city was known for its stratified neighborhoods, where the rich lived in luxury while the poor struggled nearby.

Synonyms

hierarchical
vsstratified
36 6.7

Placed in levels with some people having more power than others

divides groups into levels with social or class emphasis
tiered
vsstratified
6 4.2

Having levels one above another, like seats or a cake

divides groups into levels with social or class emphasis
vertical
vsstratified
5 4.2

Relating to higher and lower levels in a society, like income or class

divides groups into levels with social or class emphasis
hierarchic
vsstratified
7.5

Having levels where some parts have more power or importance

divides groups into levels with social or class emphasis
ranked
vsstratified
3.3

Arranged in order by how important they are

divides groups into levels with social or class emphasis
graded
vsstratified
3.2

People put things into levels by how good they are

divides groups into levels with social or class emphasis

Antonyms

127 4.1

Different parts join to make one whole

20 7.6

Believing that all people should have equal rights and chances

Compounds

stratified language
  • Specialized
9.9

A language that uses separate levels to talk about its own rules

stratified sample
  • Specialized
5.4

A sample made by dividing people into groups like age or income and choosing at random from each group

stratified sampling
  • Specialized
6.5

To choose people by dividing them into groups and picking random people from each group

How Hierarchical

stratified
7.0
egalitarian
20 7.6

Surface Forms

stratified positive

Morphology

stratified = stratify (semi-transparent) = stratify + ed

The morphological structure (stratify + -ed) is regular, but the root 'stratify' is Latinate/technical and the social sense is metaphorical, so an average B1 learner may not reliably infer the meaning from components alone.

Etymology

Stratified comes from the Latin word stratum, which means 'layer', so you can imagine society like a cake with different layers of people. So a stratified society is one divided into different levels or classes.