Stratum

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  • noun. A horizontal layer of material, especially one of several parallel layers arranged one on top of another.
  • noun. A bed or layer of sedimentary rock that is visually distinguishable from adjacent beds or layers.
  • noun. Any of the regions of the atmosphere, such as the troposphere, that occur as layers.
  • noun. A layer of tissue.
  • noun. A level of society composed of people with similar social, cultural, or economic status.
  • noun. One of a number of layers, levels, or divisions in an organized system.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In archæol. excavations, one of the layers of deposits left by successive civilizations, as in the overlying cities at Hissarlik, the ancient Troy.
  • noun. A layer of material, formed either naturally or artificially.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A bed of earth or rock of one kind, formed by natural causes, and consisting usually of a series of layers, which form a rock as it lies between beds of other kinds. Also used figuratively.
  • noun. A bed or layer artificially made; a course.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. One of several parallel horizontal layers of material arranged one on top of another.
  • noun. A layer of sedimentary rock having approximately the same composition throughout.
  • noun. Any of the regions of the atmosphere, such as the stratosphere, that occur as layers.
  • noun. A layer of tissue.
  • noun. A class of society composed of people with similar social, cultural, or economic status.
  • noun. A layer of vegetation, usually of similar height.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. one of several parallel layers of material arranged one on top of another (such as a layer of tissue or cells in an organism or a layer of sedimentary rock)
  • noun. people having the same social, economic, or educational status
  • noun. an abstract place usually conceived as having depth
  • Word Usage
    "I laid the precious stratum, _super stratum_ upon the two former, and other deposits of"
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    place  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Chatham  atom  datum  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    block  clay  column  crust  deposit  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    variant
    strata