Definitions for statures

statures stat·ure

Spelling: [stach-er]
IPA: /ˈstætʃ ər/

Statures is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 292 anagrams from letters in statures (aerssttu).

Definitions for statures

noun

  1. the height of a human or animal body.
  2. the height of any object.
  3. degree of development attained; level of achievement:

Origin of statures

1250-1300; Middle English Old French estature Latin statūra, equivalent to stat(us) past participle of stāre to stand + -ūra -ure

Examples for statures

They are of all ages, and statures, and complexions; of feature of all degrees of ugliness in form and beauty of expression.

In order to make a useful comparison of statures of different populations, we should only take, then, adults above these ages.

It has been said that the Negro is stouter than the White, at all ages and all statures, weighing more per inch of height.

No perfect skeletons from which we can ascertain their statures remain to us.

Many particulars about them are given, including their birth-places, the length of their lives and their statures.

But the statures of the men, and the beauty and grace of the ladies, surpass any I have seen elsewhere, in America or Europe.

These types differ not only in the reciprocal relation between the two statures, but in all the recognised laws of the form.

What diversity in any one of our cities in complexions, statures and features of men!

Let us assume that we are taking the average of a thousand statures, or of hundreds of thousands.

There is much to interest us in studying the distribution of statures in Italy.

Word Value for statures
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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