social status

What does social status mean?

social status means "position in a social hierarchy".

What is another word for social status?

Close synonyms include social station, social rank, rank. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is social status a common word?

social status is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for social status come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.