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Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : rangk
Phonetic Transcription : ræŋk



Definition of ranks

Origin :
  • early 14c., "row, line series;" c.1400, a row of an army, from Old French renc, ranc "row, line" (Modern French rang), from Frankish *hring or some other Germanic source (cf. Old High German hring "circle, ring"), from Proto-Germanic *khrengaz "circle, ring" (see ring (n.1)).
  • Meaning "a social division, class of persons" is from early 15c. Meaning "high station in society" is from early 15c. Meaning "a relative position" is from c.1600.
  • noun standing in a system, often a social one
  • noun column, tier of individuals
  • verb line up; classify in system
  • verb be worthwhile; have supremacy
Example sentences :
  • As one result of this, our Navy ranks larger, in comparison, than it ever did before.
  • Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
  • Since then we have been found in the ranks of your enemies; but this was your fault, not ours.
  • Extract from : « Stories from Thucydides » by H. L. Havell
  • Wasn't there enough loafers round, without him joining the ranks?
  • Extract from : « In the Midst of Alarms » by Robert Barr
  • Young Howard beckoned to the professor from his place in the ranks.
  • Extract from : « In the Midst of Alarms » by Robert Barr
  • All the Banjaur tribes had been well represented in the enemy's ranks.
  • Extract from : « The Story of the Malakand Field Force » by Sir Winston S. Churchill
  • Their burdens deposited, they took their places in front of the ranks of the warriors.
  • Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White
  • He then bade me carry the goose into the ranks, and to come to him when we halted at night.
  • Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • Voluntarily, then, he had stepped from the ranks of the hunters to those of the hunted.
  • Extract from : « The Black Bag » by Louis Joseph Vance
  • He was no simple and lowly one from the ranks of the disinherited.
  • Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola
  • And all ranks and guilds had their signs, by which they might be known.
  • Extract from : « Albert Durer » by T. Sturge Moore

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