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Synonyms for ranked

Grammar : Adj
Spell : rangk
Phonetic Transcription : ræŋk

Définition of ranked

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.
  • adj ordered
Example sentences :
  • He ranked with the Anzac and the Lowland Scot in the great adventure.
  • Extract from : « With Manchesters in the East » by Gerald B. Hurst
  • The last is the only one that can be ranked with modern comedies.
  • Extract from : « The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 » by Various
  • They were all ranked, and that publicly, as lovers of Her Majesty.
  • Extract from : « The Secret Memoirs of Louis XV./XVI, Complete » by Madame du Hausset, an "Unknown English Girl" and the Princess Lamballe
  • And please to say, whether he, too, should be ranked among those who have science.
  • Extract from : « Statesman » by Plato
  • Character may be ranked as having its natural place in the north.
  • Extract from : « Essays, Second Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Pennsylvania then ranked the second, numbering 434,373 persons.
  • Extract from : « Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 » by Various
  • The abside of the choir is ranked among the best Gothic works of the time.
  • Extract from : « The Cathedrals of Northern France » by Francis Miltoun
  • These varieties, moreover, will be often ranked by some authors as species.
  • Extract from : « On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection » by Charles Darwin
  • There they ranked, all still and wonderful between earth and heaven.
  • Extract from : « The Prussian Officer » by D. H. Lawrence
  • Next to him ranked Nicoletta; she would be at mass to-morrow—that would do.
  • Extract from : « Little Novels of Italy » by Maurice Henry Hewlett

Antonyms for ranked

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