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rank |
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rank noun | adjective
1 noun 1.•she was elevated to an administrative rank:position, level, grade, echelon | class, status, standing | dated station. 2.•a family of rank:high standing, blue blood, high birth, nobility, aristocracy | eminence, distinction, prestige | prominence, influence, consequence, power. 3.•a rank of riflemen:row, line, file, column, string, train, procession.▶verb 1.•this orchid is ranked as endangered:classify, class, categorize, rate, grade, bracket, group, pigeonhole, designate | catalog, file, list. 2.•he ranked them in order of experience:prioritize, order, organize, arrange, list | triage. 3.•she ranked below the others:have a rank, be graded, have a status, be classed, be classified, be categorized | belong. PHRASES
rank and file 1.•the officers and the rank and file:other ranks, soldiers, NCOs, noncommissioned officers, lower ranks, enlisted personnel | men, troops | informal noncoms. 2.•a speech appealing to the rank and file:people, common people, proletariat, masses, populace, commonality, third estate, plebeians | hoi polloi, rabble, riffraff, great unwashed | informal proles, plebs.
2 adjective 1.•rank vegetation:abundant, lush, luxuriant, dense, profuse, vigorous, overgrown | informal jungly. ANT sparse. 2.•a rank smell:offensive, unpleasant, nasty, revolting, sickening, obnoxious, noxious | foul, fetid, smelly, stinking, reeking, high, off, rancid, putrid, malodorous | literary noisome | Brit. informal minging, pongy. ANT pleasant. 3.•rank stupidity:downright, utter, outright, out-and-out, absolute, complete, sheer, arrant, thoroughgoing, unqualified, unmitigated, positive, perfect, patent, pure, total | archaic arrant. |
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