What does stature mean?
Word: Stature
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Stature means a person's height, or the importance and respect someone has gained.
How do you spell stature?
Syllables: stat - ure
Tricky part: Statue and statute look very close, so the r gets dropped or moved. This word closes in ure.
Watch out for: statuer, staturre
Memory tip: Stature is about rising, in height or in respect. Let the r of rising remind you it is not a statue.
Stature in a sentence
Example 1: Tall in stature, Harpreet could reach the top shelf without a stool.
Example 2: Her stature as a poet grew with each new book.
Example 3: Few Indian athletes have the stature of Neeraj Chopra.
Fun Fact
It came from a Latin word for height, built on the verb for to stand. English used it for physical height first; the sense of standing in people's esteem arrived much later.
Practise the CREST Way
Spell-o-Spell
Three of these words are misspelt. Choose the meaning of the one spelt correctly.
1. rythm 2. profesion 3. stature 4. silhouet
a) a job that needs special training
b) a dark outline against a light background
c) a regular, repeated pattern of sounds
d) the height or the standing of a person
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d) the height or the standing of a person. Rhythm, silhouette and profession are all printed wrongly in the list.
Word Connection
Choose the synonym of the word stature as used in the sentence:
Winning the national award raised the young scientist's stature among her colleagues.
a) obscurity
b) workload
c) reputation
d) salary
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c) reputation. The award lifted how highly others think of her, not her pay or her duties.
Word Cookie
Find the extra letter in the word:
statture
a) t
b) a
c) u
d) e
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a) t. Although the first vowel is short, only one t follows it.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
Although she is small in statchure, our new hockey captain from Ranchi has such quick feet and sharp judgement that defenders twice her size struggle to keep up with her.
a) defenders
b) statchure
c) struggle
d) judgement
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b) statchure. The middle sounds like ch, but no c or h is written there.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which person would best be described as a figure of international stature?
a) a Nobel Prize-winning scientist
b) a new trainee at a local bank
c) a schoolboy on his first day
d) a tourist asking for directions
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a) a Nobel Prize-winning scientist
2. 'Short in stature but huge in spirit,' wrote the reporter about the gymnast. What does the first half tell us?
a) The gymnast is not very quick
b) The gymnast is not very tall
c) The gymnast is not very loud
d) The gymnast is not very old
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b) The gymnast is not very tall
