Crossword-Solution: RANK
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Rank | superl. | Luxuriant in growth; of vigorous growth; exuberant; grown to immoderate height; as, rank grass; rank weeds. |
| Rank | superl. | Raised to a high degree; violent; extreme; gross; utter; as, rank heresy. |
| Rank | superl. | Causing vigorous growth; producing luxuriantly; very rich and fertile; as, rank land. |
| Rank | superl. | Strong-scented; rancid; musty; as, oil of a rank smell; rank-smelling rue. |
| Rank | superl. | Strong to the taste. |
| Rank | superl. | Inflamed with venereal appetite. |
| Rank | adv. | Rankly; stoutly; violently. |
| Rank | n. & v. | A row or line; a range; an order; a tier; as, a rank of osiers. |
| Rank | n. & v. | A line of soldiers ranged side by side; -- opposed to file. See 1st File, 1 (a). |
| Rank | n. & v. | Grade of official standing, as in the army, navy, or nobility; as, the rank of general; the rank of admiral. |
| Rank | n. & v. | 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. |
| Rank | n. & v. | 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. |
| Rank | n. & v. | Elevated grade or standing; high degree; high social position; distinction; eminence; as, a man of rank. |
| Rank | v. t. | To place abreast, or in a line. |
| Rank | v. t. | To range in a particular class, order, or division; to class; also, to dispose methodically; to place in suitable classes or order; to classify. |
| Rank | v. t. | To take rank of; to outrank. |
| Rank | v. i. | To be ranged; to be set or disposed, as in a particular degree, class, order, or division. |
| Rank | v. i. | 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. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| RANK | anagram | KARN, KNAR, KRAN, NARK |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with RANK (5)
All night long he sailed upon it, Sailed upon that sluggish water, Covered with its mould of ages, Black with rotting water-rushes, Rank with flags and leaves of lilies, Stagnant, lifeless, dreary, dismal, Lighted by the shimmering moonlight, And by will-o’-the-wisps illumined, Fires by ghosts of dead men kindled, In their weary night-encampments.
There were horses and men, cattle and women, pigs and children, all holding the same rank in the scale of being, and were all subjected to the same narrow examination.
She had experimented even with the rank buffalo-pea, and she could not see a fine bronze cluster of them without shaking her head and murmuring, “What a pity!” When there was nothing more to preserve, she began to pickle.
Bathsheba, with a sad, bursting heart, looked at these primest specimens of her prime flock as they rolled there,— Swoln with wind and the rank mist they drew.
The founders of the greater part of the families which now compose the aristocracy of Salem might here be traced, from the petty and obscure beginnings of their traffic, at periods generally much posterior to the Revolution, upward to what their children look upon as long-established rank.
Quotes with RANK (3)
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
One pain is lessened by another’s anguish. ... Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die.
To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself... Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 365 times in crossword archives (1947–2025).