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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

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— The Last of the Mohicans • James Fenimore Cooper

... walk as far as the cab-rank with you," he said, finding himself to be possessed of a spirit of unrest. Whereupon the two went out of the room, Stuart extinguishing the lamps as he came to ...

— The Golden Scorpion • Sax Rohmer

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— Uarda • Georg Ebers

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