statusfuladj.
/ˈsteɪtəsfʊl/, U.S. /ˈsteɪdəsfʊl/, /ˈstædəsfʊl/ Having (high) social status or distinction; that confers prestige.
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society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > [adjective] > having or conferring (high) social status
consequential1833
status1906
statusful1960
statusy1962
1960 Jrnl. Educ. Sociol. 33 262 Private school boys choose clusters of social, aesthetic, statusful, and romantic outdoor activity items.
1975 Times 22 Aug. 10/1 ‘Statusful speakers’, like BBC newsreaders.
1977 J. A. Fishman in H. Glass Lang., Ethnicity & Intergroup Relations i. 37 It is not ethnicity per se that is of concern to it but the recrudescence of less statusful, narrower, ‘peripheral’ identities.
1998 H. Giles in M. C. Pennington Lang. in Hong Kong at Century's End xix. 425 If..people in certain kinds of bilingual circumstances wish to be taken as educated and statusful, they might switch into English.
2008 Sunday Times (Nexis) 7 Sept. (Business) 7 When customers see the brand on the side of the car..it gives them the reassurance that this is a ‘statusful’ brand.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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