Stratum is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for STRATUM in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a layer of material
• a layer or a series of layers of rock in the ground
• a thin layer within any structure
• a level or class to which people are assigned according to their social status, education, or income
• a group into which members of a population are divided in stratified sampling
• layer, esp of rock
• 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.
• A bed or layer artificially made; a course.
• 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)
• people having the same social, economic, or educational status
• an abstract place usually conceived as having depth

Words related to STRATUM

strata6 stratal7 stratas7 stratums10

Words that contain STRATUM

stratums10 substratum14 substratums15 superstratum16 understratum15 superstratums17 understratums16

How to use STRATUM in a sentence

• Here were people of the bottom stratum of Indian life, yet it was a Christian community in the making.
• Jefferson thought more of men than of their surroundings, and thus became popular with ordinary people in a lower stratum of social life.
• The point to which he had alluded was an immense overhanging slab of granite stratum deep set in the mountain side.
• We encamped near a boulder of granite of the drift stratum, which contained brilliant plates of mica.
• This change, as we have already indicated, takes place above the stratum granulosum.
• Then, as suddenly as it had come, the light vanished again as a stratum of mist floated before it.
• No charcoal was found among the bones, but occurred in abundance in a stratum about one foot above them.
• In Henry VIII, I think I see plainly the cropping out of the original rock on which his own finer stratum was laid.
• Their fronts became abrupt and showed the edges of stratum on stratum of white stone.
• All this literature probably represents the canon as it existed in the epoch of Kanishka and of the Gandharan sculptures, or at least the older stratum in that canon.
• And over the old hopes time has brought a stratum of new.
• A stratum of coals was formerly believed to run through the central downs, and Sir Rt.
• We have now to consider the case of yet another stratum of life, which is as much above us as the leaden community would be below us.
• A few minutes later, another stratum of lights disappeared, and still later the deck lights.
• A hard stratum served as a floor, and projecting in many places made a narrow platform by which the inhabitants were enabled to pass along from one house to another.
• The gravel stratum also was laid down over the ditch, is tilted slightly southward and occurs in two layers, together about a foot thick.
• At this point the gravel stratum becomes pronounced again and continues over the small ditch, almost pure gravel in places, with a decided dip westward.
• Below this was a stratum of ashes, covering a limited area to the depth of 4 feet.
• A stratum of ashes, charcoal, and burned clay was associated with them.
• An immense stratum of granite, which here and there thrust out a wrinkled boulder, prevented the site from being used for building purposes.
• The heather and peat stratum overhung the brow of the pit in mats, hiding the actual verge.
• We found it to be a perfectly smooth stratum of salt glistening as if powdered.
• So soon as I bent towards the ground, however, and the lower stratum of air blew upon my face, I experienced a most horrible choking sensation.
• In such a case the continuation of a stratum on the opposite side of a fault will be found to be depressed, perhaps a thousand feet or more.
• It seems to represent a stratum of life beneath moral or intellectual functions, and beneath all personality.
• The greater the depth of this coral-like stratum, and of the reddish or deep yellowish soil, the better is the ground for coffee.
• The soil changes to a thin layer of vegetable mould, resting on a stratum of yellow clay, which is again supported by a deep bed of schistus.
• The difficulty here consists in knowing with a sufficient approximation the thickness of the stratum of air.

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