Stratified: meaning, example and synonyms

Stratifiedadj. Arranged in distinct layers, levels, or ranks, as rock or a social hierarchy.

Example

The sociologist described a highly stratified village in which landowners, tenant farmers, and laborers rarely married outside their own tier.

Part of speech: adjective
Synonyms: layered, tiered, hierarchical, graded
Antonyms: unlayered, egalitarian, mixed
Memory tip: Like rock STRATA: one layer stacked on top of another.

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The canyon walls are visibly ______, with bands of red sandstone, gray shale, and pale limestone recording millions of years of deposition.

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In the rigidly ______ society of the old kingdom, a person's rank at birth determined occupation, clothing, and even which streets one could walk.

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