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rank⋅er

  [rang-ker]
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–noun
1. a person who ranks.
2. British. a soldier in the ranks or a commissioned officer promoted from the ranks.
Origin:
1825–35; rank 1 + -er 1
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rank

2  [rangk]
–adjective, -er, -est.
1. growing with excessive luxuriance; vigorous and tall of growth: tall rank weeds.
2. producing an excessive and coarse growth, as land.
3. having an offensively strong smell or taste: a rank cigar.
4. offensively strong, as a smell or taste.
5. utter; absolute: a rank amateur; rank treachery.
6. highly offensive; disgusting: a rank sight of carnage.
7. grossly coarse, vulgar, or indecent: rank language.
8. Slang. inferior; contemptible.
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME; OE ranc bold, proud; c. ON rakkr straight, bold

Related forms:
rankish, adjective
rankly, adverb
rankness, noun

Synonyms:
1. abundant, exuberant. 5. complete, sheer, entire. 6. repulsive, repellent. See flagrant. 7. foul.
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rank 2   (rāngk)   
adj.   rank·er, rank·est

  1. Growing profusely or with excessive vigor: rank vegetation in the jungle.

  2. Yielding a profuse, often excessive crop; highly fertile: rank earth.

  3. Strong and offensive in odor or flavor.

  4. Conspicuously offensive: rank treachery. See Synonyms at flagrant.

  5. Absolute; complete: a rank amateur; a rank stranger.


[Middle English ranc, from Old English, strong, overbearing; see reg- in Indo-European roots.]
rank'ly adv., rank'ness n.
rank·er   (rāng'kər)   
n.   Chiefly British

  1. An enlisted soldier.

  2. A commissioned officer who has been promoted from enlisted status.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
rank (so) (out)

  1. tv.
    to annoy or chastise someone. (See also rank.) : He really ranks me out. What a pest!
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

rank  (n.)
early 14c., from O.Fr. ranc, from Frankish *hring (cf. O.H.G. hring "circle, ring"), from P.Gmc. *khrengaz "circle, ring" (see ring). Meaning "social position" is from c.1430; the verb sense of "put in order, classify" is from 1592. Rank and file is 1598, in reference to soldiers marching in formation, generalized to "common soldiers" (1796) and "common people" (1860). The verb meaning "to arrange things in order" is from 1590.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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