echelon vs status

echelon and status both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
echelon	Yes	No	No	No
status	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, status is a hypernym of echelon; that is, status is a word with a broader meaning than echelon:

echelon: status in a society or organization
status: the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society

Other hypernyms of echelon include position.

echelon (noun)	status (noun)
a diffraction grating consisting of a pile of plates of equal thickness arranged stepwise with a constant offset	the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society
a body of troops arranged in a line	a state at a particular time
status in a society or organization