Synonyms:
rank
Meaning: very fertile; producing profuse growth; "rank earth"
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
rank
Meaning: a row or line of people (especially soldiers or police) standing abreast of one another; "the entrance was guarded by ranks of policemen"
Synonyms:
rank
Meaning: relative status; "his salary was determined by his rank and seniority"
Synonyms:
rank_and_file, rank
Meaning: the ordinary members of an organization (such as the enlisted soldiers of an army); "the strike was supported by the union rank and file"; "he rose from the ranks to become a colonel"
Synonyms:
social_station, social_status, social_rank, rank
Meaning: position in a social hierarchy; "the British are more aware of social status than Americans are"
Synonyms:
membership, rank
Meaning: the body of members of an organization or group; "they polled their membership"; "they found dissension in their own ranks"; "he joined the ranks of the unemployed"
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
rank
Meaning: take or have a position relative to others; "This painting ranks among the best in the Western World"
Synonyms:
rate, rank, range, order, grade, place
Meaning: assign a rank or rating to; "how would you rank these students?"; "The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide"
Usage examples
"Rank heresy!
Those in the front rank were killed by those in the rear.
It was pure greed, nay, rank covetousness, an evil thing in all the worlds.
Coarse grass and rank weeds straggled over all the marshy land in the vicinity.
Then He fled, and it was after that that He was raised to the rank of a Prophet!
Aristotle recognises between these two logical correlatives a difference in rank.
"How greedily They snuff the fishy steam, that to each blade Rank scenting clings!
Diamond's father turned instantly, for he was the foremost in the rank, and followed the girl.
Later on, however, I learned that only captains and officers of higher rank can have such things.
The rank woods were full of malaria, and singular epidemics from time to time ravaged the settlements.