statement

English Online Dictionary. What means statement‎? What does statement mean?

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsteɪtm(ə)nt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsteɪtmənt/
• Rhymes: -eɪtmənt
• Hyphenation: state‧ment

Etymology 1

From state +‎ -ment.

Noun

statement (plural statements)

1. A declaration or remark.

   make a statement

   publish a statement

   utter a statement

2. A presentation of opinion or position.
3. (finance) A document that summarizes financial activity.

   a bank statement

4. (computing) An instruction in a computer program, especially one that returns no value, as opposed to a function call.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:statement

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

statement (not comparable)

1. Decisive.

Etymology 2

Back-formation from statementing or back-formation from statemented.

Verb

statement (third-person singular simple present statements, present participle statementing, simple past and past participle statemented)

1. (transitive) To provide an official document of a proposition, especially in the UK, a Statement of Special Educational Needs.

See also

• Special education in England on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• “statement”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “statement”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

• testament, tentmates, Amstetten

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English statement.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsteːtmənt/
• Hyphenation: state‧ment

Noun

statement n (plural statements)

1. statement, declaration

   Synonym: verklaring

2. (computing) statement, instruction in a computer program

   Synonym: instructie