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Rank

noun

1.

A row or line of people (especially soldiers or police) standing abreast of one another.

2.

Relative status.

3.

The ordinary members of an organization (such as the enlisted soldiers of an army). Synonym: rank and file. "He rose from the ranks to become a colonel"

4.

Position in a social hierarchy. Synonyms: social rank, social station, social status.

5.

The body of members of an organization or group. Synonym: membership. "They found dissension in their own ranks" , "He joined the ranks of the unemployed"

verb

(past & past part. ranked; pres. part. ranking)

1.

Take or have a position relative to others.

2.

Assign a rank or rating to. Synonyms: grade, order, place, range, rate. "The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide"

3.

Take precedence or surpass others in rank. Synonym: outrank.

adjective

(compar. ranker; superl. rankest)

1.

Very fertile; producing profuse growth.

2.

Very offensive in smell or taste.

3.

Conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible. Synonyms: crying, egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross. "An egregious lie" , "Flagrant violation of human rights" , "A glaring error" , "Gross ineptitude" , "Gross injustice" , "Rank treachery"

4.

Complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers. Synonyms: absolute, downright, out-and-out, right-down, sheer. "An absolute dimwit" , "A downright lie" , "Out-and-out mayhem" , "An out-and-out lie" , "A rank outsider" , "Many right-down vices" , "Got the job through sheer persistence" , "Sheer stupidity"

5.

Growing profusely.

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"Rank" Quotes from Famous Books

... beauty may, sometimes, have its original in universal beauty carried to extravagance. Instead of commending him for being able to give merriment to the most refined nation of those days, we shall proceed to place that people, with all their atticism, in the rank of savages, whom we take upon us to degrade, because they have no other qualifications but innocence, and plain understanding. But have not we, likewise, amidst our more polished manners, beauties merely fashionable, which ...

— The Works of Samuel Johnson in Nine Volumes - Volume V: Miscellaneous Pieces • Samuel Johnson

... side; the majority of King William's bishops were inclined to latitudinarianism. A dispute arose between the two parties touching the extent of the powers of the Lower House of Convocation. Atterbury thrust himself eagerly into the front rank of the high-churchmen. Those who take a comprehensive and impartial view of his whole career will not be disposed to give him credit for religious zeal. But it was his nature to be vehement and pugnacious in the cause of every fraternity of which ...

— The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, Vol. 3. (of 4) • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... to know exactly what in their view it really means. Fortunately on this point we have some data of indisputable authority. They are furnished in the speeches of an "advanced" leader, who does not rank amongst the revolutionary extremists, though his refusal to give evidence in the trial of a seditious newspaper with which he had been connected brought him in 1907 within the scope of the Indian Criminal Code. Mr. Bepin Chandra Pal, a high-caste Hindu and a man of great intellectual ...

— Indian Unrest • Valentine Chirol

... that in the Army, lieutenants are called "Mister" always, but all other officers must be addressed by their rank. At least that is what they tell me. But in Faye's company, the captain is called general, and the first lieutenant is called major, and as this is most confusing, I get things mixed sometimes. Most girls would. A soldier in uniform waited ...

— Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 • Frances M.A. Roe

... a deferential air which confirmed my belief in the pea-green young man's aristocratic origin. It was such deference as the British flunkey pays only to blue blood; for he has gradations of flunkeydom. He is respectful to wealth; polite to acquired rank; but servile only to hereditary nobility. Indeed, you can make a rough guess at the social status of the person he addresses by observing which one of his twenty-seven nicely graduated manners ...

— Miss Cayley's Adventures • Grant Allen

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