rank

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1. rank - Noun

2. rank - Adjective

3. rank - Verb

4. rank - Adverb

6. rank - Adjective Satellite

7. Rank - Proper noun

Meaning

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 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.

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Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious 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

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility. Peter Drucker

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit. Herbert Spencer

It is not good to eat cherries from the same dish with persons of high rank. Hungarian Proverb

Marry a person in your own rank in life. Latin Proverb

Money, like a queen, gives rank and beauty. Latin Proverb

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