The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Statement \State"ment\ (st[=a]t"ment), n.
   1. The act of stating, reciting, or presenting, orally or on
      paper; as, to interrupt a speaker in the statement of his
      case.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. That which is stated; a formal embodiment in language of
      facts or opinions; a narrative; a recital. "Admirable
      perspicuity of statement." --Brougham.
      [1913 Webster]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

statement
    n 1: a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral
         or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc;
         "according to his statement he was in London on that day"
    2: a fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is
       true; "it was a strong argument that his hypothesis was true"
       [syn: argument, statement]
    3: (music) the presentation of a musical theme; "the initial
       statement of the sonata"
    4: a nonverbal message; "a Cadillac makes a statement about who
       you are"; "his tantrums are a statement of his need for
       attention"
    5: the act of affirming or asserting or stating something [syn:
       affirmation, assertion, statement]
    6: (computer science) a line of code written as part of a
       computer program [syn: instruction, command, statement,
       program line]
    7: a document showing credits and debits [syn: statement,
       financial statement]

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):

statement

    A single instruction in a computer program
   written in a procedural language.  Typical examples are an
   assignment statement, an if statement (conditional), a
   loop statement ("while", "for", "repeat", "until", etc.), a
   procedure call, a procedure exit, function return
   statement, switch statement or goto statement.

   In many languages, one or more simple statements can be
   executed sequentially as a compound statement,
   e.g. bracketed between "begin" and "end" or "" and "" which
   can then appear in place of a simple statement in an "if" or
   loop.

   Each statement in a high-level language will typically be
   translated into several machine code instructions by a
   compiler or, alternatively, executed by an interpreter.

   (2009-10-23)