Definition of Rank

Rank Luxuriant in growth; of vigorous growth; exuberant; grown to immoderate height; as, rank grass; rank weeds. Raised to a high degree; violent; extreme; gross; utter; as, rank heresy. Causing vigorous growth; producing luxuriantly; very rich and fertile; as, rank land. Strong-scented; rancid; musty; as, oil of a rank smell; rank-smelling rue. Strong to the taste. Inflamed with venereal appetite. Rankly; stoutly; violently. A row or line; a range; an order; a tier; as, a rank of osiers. A line of soldiers ranged side by side; -- opposed to file. See 1st File, 1 (a). Grade of official standing, as in the army, navy, or nobility; as, the rank of general; the rank of admiral. 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. 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. Elevated grade or standing; high degree; high social position; distinction; eminence; as, a man of rank. To place abreast, or in a line. To range in a particular class, order, or division; to class; also, to dispose methodically; to place in suitable classes or order; to classify. To take rank of; to outrank. To be ranged; to be set or disposed, as in a particular degree, class, order, or division. 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. Related Definitions: Abreast, Admiral, Aggregate, Also, An, And, Appetite, Army, As, Be, By, Causing, Certain, Civil, Class, Classed, Classes, Classify, Consideration, Degree, Dignity, Dispose, Disposed, Distinction, Division, Elevated, Elevation, Eminence, Esteem, Estimation, Excellence, Extreme, Exuberant, Fertile, File, First, General, Grade, Grass, Gross, Grown, Growth, Have, He, Height, Heresy, High, Immoderate, In, Inflamed, Intelligent, Land, Lawyer, Life, Line, Luxuriant, Luxuriantly, Man, Men, Military, Musty, Navy, Nobility, Of, Official, Oil, Opposed, Or, Order, Other, Outrank, Particular, Permanent, Place, Position, Producing, Public, Raised, Rancid, Range, Ranged, Rank, Rankly, Rich, Row, Rue, See, Set, Side, Smell, Social, Standing, Station, Stoutly, Strong, Suitable, Take, Taste, The, Tier, To, Together, Utter, Venereal, Very, Vigorous, Violent, Violently, With, Writer

Rank Quotations He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice. Albert Einstein For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank. Winston Churchill Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorius triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes. Henry David Thoreau Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. Mike Ditka When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes. Napoleon Bonaparte You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider. Robert Frost He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first. Voltaire Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility. Peter Drucker Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ. H. L. Mencken

Rank Translations rank in Afrikaans is tou rank in Dutch is graad, stand, status, rang rank in Finnish is rivi rank in German is Stufe, Ebene, Reihe, Rang, Rang rank in Italian is gradino, pianura, rango rank in Latin is ordo rank in Portuguese is fila rank in Swedish is stinkande, yppig, rang, ordna, rad