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Definition of Rank
Pronunciation: răņkt | a. | 1. | Luxuriant in growth; of vigorous growth; exuberant; grown to immoderate height; as, rank grass; rank weeds. | | 2. | Raised to a high degree; violent; extreme; gross; utter; as, rank heresy. | | 3. | Causing vigorous growth; producing luxuriantly; very rich and fertile; as, rank land. | | 4. | Strong-scented; rancid; musty; as, oil of a rank smell; rank-smelling rue. | | 5. | Strong to the taste. | | 6. | Inflamed with venereal appetite. | | adv. | 1. | Rankly; stoutly; violently. | | n. | 1. | A row or line; a range; an order; a tier; as, a rank of osiers. | | 2. | (Mil.) A line of soldiers ranged side by side; - opposed to file. See 1st File, 1 (a). | | 3. | Grade of official standing, as in the army, navy, or nobility; as, the rank of general; the rank of admiral. | | 4. | An aggregate of individuals classed together; a permanent social class; an order; a division; as, ranks and orders of men; the highest and the lowest ranks of men, or of other intelligent beings. | | 5. | Degree of dignity, eminence, or excellence; position in civil or social life; station; degree; grade; as, a writer of the first rank; a lawyer of high rank. | | 6. | Elevated grade or standing; high degree; high social position; distinction; eminence; as, a man of rank. | | v. t. | 1. | To place abreast, or in a line. | | 2. | To range in a particular class, order, or division; to class; also, to dispose methodically; to place in suitable classes or order; to classify. | | 3. | To take rank of; to outrank. | | v. i. | 1. | To be ranged; to be set or disposed, as in a particular degree, class, order, or division. | | 2. | To have a certain grade or degree of elevation in the orders of civil or military life; to have a certain degree of esteem or consideration; as, he ranks with the first class of poets; he ranks high in public estimation. |
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