Definitions for stratum

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stratum stra·tum

Spelling: [strey-tuh m, strat-uh m]

IPA: /ˈstreɪ təm, ˈstræt əm/

Stratum is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 175 anagrams from letters in stratum (amrsttu).

Definitions for stratum

noun

1. a layer of material, naturally or artificially formed, often one of a number of parallel layers one upon another:
2. one of a number of portions or divisions likened to layers or levels:
3. Geology. a single bed of sedimentary rock, generally consisting of one kind of matter representing continuous deposition.
4. Biology. a layer of tissue; lamella.
5. Ecology. (in a plant community) a layer of vegetation, usually of the same or similar height.
6. a layer of the ocean or the atmosphere distinguished by natural or arbitrary limits.
7. Sociology. a level or grade of a people or population with reference to social position, education, etc.:
8. Linguistics. (in stratificational grammar) a major subdivision of linguistic structure. Compare level (def 17).

Origin of stratum

1590-1600; Latin strātum literally, a cover, noun use of neuter of strātus, past participle of sternere to spread, strew, equivalent to strā- variant stem + -tus pas

Examples for stratum

The other stratum of McClellanism (p. 191) is composed of intriguers.

By increasing the thickness of the stratum we may absorb the whole of the light.

What a God-send for us that there happens to be, just here, this stratum of soft sand.

If there is soil in the sand, it will appear as a stratum of mud on top of the sand.

But their young deputies and ministerial director generals tended to be from this recently-returned, Western-educated stratum.

The "blue lead" is a stratum of blue clay very rich in gold.

Nobody but Alston, in their stratum at least, had come in person.

In this genus the stratum of the pores is not easily separated from the cap.

On top of each one is a stratum of sandstone or dark-gray shale.

It may be carried too far, and the fables of the vulgar have often a stratum of truth at the bottom.