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Pronunciation: [stɹˈɑːtəm] (IPA)

The word "stratum" refers to a layer of material or a level of society. There are several synonyms for this word, including layer, tier, level, echelon, and rank. Each of these words describes a specific aspect of stratum, with layer referring to a physical layer of material, and tier referring to a hierarchical level of organization. On the other hand, level refers to the position of something on a scale, echelon typically refers to the level of authority or prestige, and rank refers to a specific level in an organizational hierarchy. Each of these synonyms adds a nuanced meaning to the concept of stratum, highlighting the depth and complexity of social and physical layering in different contexts.

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  • hyponyms for stratum (as nouns)

    • location
      layer.

Usage examples for Stratum

Sometimes, however, the layers of deposition in a single stratum are inclined at various angles to themselves, as in the following figure.
"Geology"
James Geikie
The drama comes to represent a tone of thought, a social stratum, which, instead of leading, is getting more and more opposed to the great bulk of the most vigorous elements of the society.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen
The literary class of which I have hitherto spoken reflected the opinions of the upper social stratum.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen

Famous quotes with Stratum

  • The conquerors were the fighting and ruling stratum; the conquered natives were degraded to the labouring class.
    Cyrus H. Gordon
  • The biosphere is now enriched with an other stratum, mid-way between the material and the spiritual, and that is the web of connections, a “virtual” reality made of communication by means of the new media. On a daily basis, we move around in this space with all the content we are capable of. This physically concretizes the concept that all humans can merge in a single moment, where no one is separated from the others and all become a single entity, which is the web.
    Caterina Davinio
  • From the lowest and broadest stratum of Society, where the births are by the million, there was born, almost in our own memory, a Robert Burns; son of one who "had not capital for his poor moor-farm of Twenty Pounds a year." Robert Burns never had the smallest chance to got into Parliament, much as Robert Burns deserved, for all our sakes, to have been found there. For the man—it was not known to men purblind, sunk in their poor dim vulgar element, but might have been known to men of insight who had any loyalty or any royalty of their own—was a born king of men: full of valor, of intelligence and heroic nobleness; fit for far other work than to break his heart among poor mean mortals, gauging beer! Him no Tenpound Constituency chose, nor did any Reforming Premier: in the deep-sunk British Nation, overwhelmed in foggy stupor, with the loadstars all gone out for it, there was no whisper of a notion that it could be desirable to choose him,—except to come and dine with you, and in the interim to gauge.
    Thomas Carlyle
  • In the lowest stratum of social thraldom, nowhere was the noble soul doomed quite to choke, and die ignobly.
    Thomas Carlyle
  • How marvellously lie our anxieties, in filmy layers, one over the other! Take away that which has lain on the upper surface for so long – the care of cares – the only one, as it seemed to you, between your soul and the radiance of Heaven – and straight you find a new stratum there.
    Sheridan Le Fanu

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