Rank

English Meaning

Luxuriant in growth; of vigorous growth; exuberant; grown to immoderate height; as, rank grass; rank weeds.

1. A relative position in a society.
2. An official position or grade: the rank of sergeant.
3. A relative position or degree of value in a graded group.
4. High or eminent station or position: persons of rank.
5. A row, line, series, or range.
6. A line of soldiers, vehicles, or equipment standing side by side in close order.
7. The armed forces.
8. Personnel, especially enlisted military personnel.
9. A body of people classed together; numbers: joined the ranks of the unemployed.
10. Games Any of the rows of squares running crosswise to the files on a playing board in chess or checkers.
11. To place in a row or rows.
12. To give a particular order or position to; classify.
13. To outrank or take precedence over.
14. To hold a particular rank: ranked first in the class.
15. To form or stand in a row or rows.
16. Slang To complain.
17. Slang To engage in carping criticism. Often used with on: Stop ranking on me all the time.
18. pull rank To use one's superior rank to gain an advantage.
19. Growing profusely or with excessive vigor: rank vegetation in the jungle.
20. Yielding a profuse, often excessive crop; highly fertile: rank earth.
21. Strong and offensive in odor or flavor.
22. Conspicuously offensive: rank treachery. See Synonyms at flagrant.
23. Absolute; complete: a rank amateur; a rank stranger.