Other forms: statements
A statement is something said or written out plainly, on the record. The company puts out a statement after the fire, a witness gives a statement to the police, and your bank sends a statement of everything that went in and out last month.
The bank one catches learners out, because there a statement is a list, not a sentence. To make a statement is to say something in public and on purpose, and from there it stretches to anything that announces what you think: a yellow front door in a grey street is a statement. In grammar a statement is the plain kind of sentence, as against a question or an order. The verbs that go with it are make, issue, release and give — you do not say a statement. As an adjective, a statement necklace or a statement wall is one meant to be noticed.
1nounclearlySomething said or written clearly and definitely.~52%
“He read a short statement and took no questions.”
2noungivenA formal account given to the police, a court or the press.~17%
“She gave a statement to the police the same night.”
3nounstatementA printed list of the money paid into and out of an account over a period.~29%
“My bank statement shows two payments I do not recognise.”
4noundoneSomething done or worn to show what you believe or who you are.~2%
“Wearing the badge to work was a statement.”
Shares are an estimate: a language model read 20 sentences found in the wild and placed 17 of them on a sense (3 were unclear) — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.
statement is a spoken or written account.
Proto-Indo-European
*steh₂-
Middle English
stat
English
state
English, today
statement
Built from
From state + -ment. state comes from Middle English stat. From Middle English stat (as a noun); adopted c. 1200 from both Old French estat and Latin stātus (“manner of standing, attitude, position, carriage, manner, dress, apparel; and other senses”), from stō (“to stand”). a doublet of estate and status. The sense of "polity" develops in the 14th century. Compare French être, Greek στέω, Italian stare, Portuguese estar, Romanian sta, and Spanish estar. The verb is first attested around the beginning of the 16th century. Related to English stand. Displaced native Old English hād (“state, condition”).
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