Status is a state, condition or situation. In common usage it may refer to:

• Social status
• Economic status
• HIV status
• Legal status
• Status quo
• Status symbol
• Status, a magazine edited by Igor Cassini
• A category of the grammar of Semitic languages, see nunation, status constructus
• Status Message Update (SMU) is a unit and mechanism of asynchronous light weight communication distributed to an audience. SMU can be a currency and service, similar to SMS.