Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - statement

 noun  Date: 1702  1. something stated: as  a. a single declaration or remark ; assertion  b. a report of facts or opinions  2. the act or process of stating or presenting orally or on paper  3. proposition 2a  4. the presentation of a theme in a musical composition  5. a summary of activity in a financial account over a particular period of time  6. an opinion, comment, or message conveyed indirectly usually by nonverbal means monuments are ~s in form and space — O. B. Hardison, Jr.  7. an instruction in a computer program