posture
/ˈpɑst͡ʃɚ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.65 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One's attitude or the social or political position one takes towards an issue or another person.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The position of someone or something relative to another; position; situation.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "As if that whatsoever god who leads him Were slily crept into his human powers, And gave him graceful posture."
- "[…] walking in a most dejected posture, without a band, unbraced, his arms a-cross his open breast, and his eyes bent to the floor;"
- "Rise, sir, from this semi-recumbent posture. It is most indecorous."
- "Even as I was reading these fables of my millions, there lay on the desk before me a statement of the exact posture of my affairs […]"
- "Uncle Jim stopped amazed. His brain did not instantly rise to the new posture of things."
- "1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan ...that is, their Forts, Garrisons, and Guns upon the Frontiers of their Kingdomes; and continuall Spyes upon their neighbours; which is a posture of War."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: postura, positūra
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈpɑst͡ʃɚ/
- British English: /ˈpɒst͡ʃə/