- nounrank (noun) · ranks (plural noun) · the ranks (plural noun)
- a position in the hierarchy of the armed forces:"an army officer of fairly high rank" · "he was promoted to the rank of Captain"
- a position within the hierarchy of an organization or society:"only two cabinet members had held ministerial rank before"
- high social position:"persons of rank and breeding"
- statisticsa number specifying position in a numerically ordered series.
- a single line of soldiers or police officers drawn up abreast:"they were drawn up outside their barracks in long ranks"
- a regular row or line of things or people:"conifer plantations growing in serried ranks"
- chesseach of the eight rows of eight squares running from side to side across a chessboard. Compare with file
- (ranks)the people belonging to or constituting a group or class:"the ranks of the unemployed"
- (the ranks)common soldiers as opposed to officers:"he was fined and reduced to the ranks"
- mathematicsthe value or the order of the largest nonzero determinant of a given matrix.
- an analogous quantity in other kinds of groups.
verbrank (verb) · ranks (third person present) · ranked (past tense) · ranked (past participle) · ranking (present participle)- give (someone or something) a rank or place within a grading system:"she is ranked number four in the world" · "rank them in order of preference"
- have a specified rank or place within a grading system:"he ranks with Newman as one of the outstanding English theologians"
- US ENGLISHtake precedence over (someone) in respect of rank; outrank:"the Secretary of State ranks all the other members of the cabinet"
- arrange in a rank or ranks:"the tents were ranked in orderly rows"
OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘row of things’): from Old French ranc, of Germanic origin; related to ring.adjectiverank (adjective) · ranker (comparative adjective) · rankest (superlative adjective)- (of vegetation) growing too thickly and coarsely:"clumps of rank grass"
- (especially of air or water) having a foul or offensive smell:"breathing rank air"
- informalvery unpleasant:"the tea at work is nice but the coffee's pretty rank"
- (especially of something bad or deficient) complete and utter (used for emphasis):"rank stupidity" · "a rank outsider" · "rank amateurs"
OriginOld English ranc ‘proud, rebellious, sturdy’, also ‘fully grown’, of Germanic origin. An early sense ‘luxuriant’ gave rise to ‘too luxuriant’, whence the negative connotation of modern usage.Similar and Opposite Wordsnoun- a single line of soldiers or police officers drawn up abreast:
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