power hunger status seeking | a drive to acquire power |
origin descent extraction | properties attributable to your ancestry, he comes from good origins |
vintage time of origin | the oldness of wines |
origin | the point of intersection of coordinate axes, where the values of the coordinates are all zero |
origin origination inception | an event that is a beginning, a first part or stage of subsequent events |
d lineage line line of descent descent bloodline blood line blood pedigree ancestry origin parentage stemma stockb | the descendants of one individual, his entire lineage has been warriors |
Commission on the Status of Women | the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with the status of women in different societies |
beginning origin root rootage source | the place where something begins, where it springs into being, the Italian beginning of the Renaissance, Jupiter was the origin of the radiation, Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River, communism's Russian root |
fatherland homeland motherland mother country country of origin native land | the country where you were born |
birthplace cradle place of origin provenance provenience | where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence, the birthplace of civilization |
origin | the source of something's existence or from which it derives or is derived, the rumor had its origin in idle gossip, vegetable origins, mineral origin, origin in sensation |
condition status | a state at a particular time, a condition (or state) of disrepair, the current status of the arms negotiations |
status quo | the existing state of affairs |
status position | the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society, he had the status of a minor, the novel attained the status of a classic, atheists do not enjoy a favorable position in American life |
social station social status social rank rank | position in a social hierarchy, the British are more aware of social status than Americans are |
high status | a position of superior status |
seniority senior status higher status higher rank | higher rank than that of others especially by reason of longer service |
low status lowness lowliness | a position of inferior status, low in station or rank or fortune or estimation |
inferiority lower status lower rank | the state of being inferior |
junior status | in a junior position |
legal status | a status defined by law |
marital status | the condition of being married or unmarried |
status epilepticus | a condition in which there are continuing attacks of epilepsy without intervals of consciousness, can lead to brain damage and death |
status asthmaticus | a prolonged and severe asthma attack that does not respond to standard treatment |