WordNet
n. position in a social hierarchy; "the British are more aware of social status than Americans are" [syn: social status, social rank, rank]
Usage examples of "social station".
A visitor to that pub on the evening of August 10, 1854, would be greeted by a most peculiar spectacle, for although the pub was notably low-ceilinged, dingy, and cheap, it was filled with all manner of well-dressed gentlemen who rubbed shoulders with hawkers, costers, navvies, and others of the lowest social station.
Bounderby I have received every acknowledgment of my social station, and every recognition of my family descent, that I could possibly expect.
She was also, incidentally, of high birth, or reasonably high birth, and of secure social station.
To exploit them in the way they spent their lives exploiting those beneath their social station.
In fact, I'd say you're more than a match for Lady Magda in learning and culture-and social station.
Here, individuals who would flee in terror from the common room of the Bloody Fist or Selune's Smile farther down the city could quaff a few with others of similar social station and disposition.