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Etymology 1

From Old English ranc, from Proto-Germanic *rankaz.

Adjective

rank (comparative ranker or more rank, superlative rankest or most rank)

  1. Having a very strong and bad odor.
    Your gym clothes are rank, bro’ – when d’you last wash ’em?
  2. (informal) Gross, disgusting.
  3. Complete, used as an intensifier (usually negative, referring to incompetence).
    I am a rank amateur as a wordsmith.
Synonyms
Translations
Having a very strong and bad odor
  • Dutch: stinkend nl(nl)
  • Finnish: löyhkäävä, lemuava
  • German: stinkend de(de)
  • Mandarin: 腥
Highly offensive; disgusting
  • Swedish: vämjelig

Adverb

rank (comparative more rank, superlative most rank)

  1. (obsolete) Quickly, eagerly, impetuously.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.iii:
      The seely man seeing him ryde so rancke, / And ayme at him, fell flat to ground for feare [...].

Etymology 2

Middle English rank (“line, row”) from Old French reng, rang, ranc (“line, row, rank”) (Modern French rang), of Germanic origin, from Frankish hring (“ring”) from Proto-Germanic *hrengaz (“something bent or curved”) from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to bend, turn”).

Akin to Old High German (h)ring, Old Frisian hring, Old English hring, hrincg (“ring”) (Modern English ring), Old Norse hringr (“ring, circle, queue, sword; ship”). More at ring.

Noun

rank (plural ranks)

  1. position of a person, place, thing, or idea in relation to others based on a shared property such as physical location, population, or quality
    Based on your test scores, you have a rank of 23.
  2. a level in an organization such as the military
    Private First Class (PFC) is the lowest rank in the Marines.
  3. (taxonomy) a level in a scientific taxonomy system
    Phylum is the taxonomic rank below kingdom and above class.
  4. (usually plural) The lines or rows of people in an organization
    He rose up through the ranks of the company from mailroom clerk to CEO.
  5. One of the horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard
  6. (linear algebra) maximal number of linearly independent columns (or rows) of a matrix.
  7. (music) In a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to one key or pedal.
  8. (computing) The dimensionality of an array.
Derived terms
Translations
position of a person, place, thing, or idea in relation to others based on a shared property such as physical location, population, or quality
  • Swedish: klass, placering
a level in an organization such as the military
The lines or rows of people in an organization
One of the horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard
  • Swedish: rad sv(sv)
In a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to one key or pedal
  • Swedish: verk sv(sv)
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Verb

to rank (third-person singular simple present ranks, present participle ranking, simple past and past participle ranked)

  1. to give a person, place, thing, or idea a rank
    Their defense ranked third in the league.
Translations
to give a person, place, thing, or idea a rank

Anagrams

Dutch

Adjective

rank (comparative ranker, superlative rankst)

  1. slender, svelte

Declension

Declension of rank
positive comparative superlative
attributive predicative
predicative rank ranker
neuter singular indefinite rank ranker
definite ranke rankere rankste het rankst(e)
common singular ranke rankere rankste de rankste
plural ranke rankere rankste de rankste
partitive ranks rankers

Noun

rank f. and m. (plural ranken, diminutive rankje, diminutive plural rankjes)

  1. tendril, a thin winding stem;

 

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