【Dict.Wiki ❷⓿❷❷】rank meaning, rank slang, rank definition, rank translation.❤️️︎︎ What does rank mean? Meaning of rank. rank Meaning, slang, Define and pronunciation...

1. a row or line of people (especially soldiers or police) standing abreast of one another;

• "the entrance was guarded by ranks of policemen"

2. relative status;

• "his salary was determined by his rank and seniority"

3. 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"

4. position in a social hierarchy;

• "the British are more aware of social status than Americans are"

5. 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"

1. take or have a position relative to others;

• "This painting ranks among the best in the Western World"

2. assign a rank or rating to;

• "how would you rank these students?"
• "The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide"

3. take precedence or surpass others in rank

1. very fertile; producing profuse growth;

• "rank earth"

2. very offensive in smell or taste;

• "a rank cigar"

3. conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible;

• "a crying shame"
• "an egregious lie"
• "flagrant violation of human rights"
• "a glaring error"
• "gross ineptitude"
• "gross injustice"
• "rank treachery"

4. complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers;

• "absolute freedom"
• "an absolute dimwit"
• "a downright lie"
• "out-and-out mayhem"
• "an out-and-out lie"
• "a rank outsider"
• "many right-down vices"
• "got the job through sheer persistence"
• "sheer stupidity"

5. growing profusely;

• "rank jungle vegetation"