noun
- A row or line of people (especially soldiers or police) standing abreast of one another.
- usage: "the entrance was guarded by ranks of policemen"
- Relative status.
- usage: "his salary was determined by his rank and seniority"
- The ordinary members of an organization (such as the enlisted soldiers of an army. )
- usage: "the strike was supported by the union rank and file"; "he rose from the ranks to become a colonel"
- synonyms: rank and file
- Position in a social hierarchy.
- usage: "the British are more aware of social status than Americans are"
- synonyms: social station, social status, social rank
- The body of members of an organization or group.
- usage: "they polled their membership"; "they found dissension in their own ranks"; "he joined the ranks of the unemployed"
- synonyms: membership
verb
- Take or have a position relative to others.
- usage: "This painting ranks among the best in the Western World"
- Assign a rank or rating to.
- usage: "how would you rank these students"; "The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide"
- Take precedence or surpass others in rank.
- synonyms: outrank
adjective
- Very fertile; producing profuse growth.
- usage: "rank earth"
- Very offensive in smell or taste.
- usage: "a rank cigar"
- Conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible.
- usage: "a crying shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross ineptitude"; "gross injustice"; "rank treachery"
- Complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers.
- usage: "absolute freedom"; "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"
- synonyms: absolute, downright, out-and-out, right-down, sheer
- Growing profusely.
- usage: "rank jungle vegetation"
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