ranger

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
“
So far as the success of the insurgents went, the loss of the ranger was a matter of no importance, since O'Halloran knew well that nothing in the way of useful information could be cajoled or threatened out of him.

View all »
Definitions (20)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (5)

  1. noun A wanderer; a rover.
  2. noun A member of an armed troop employed in patrolling a specific region.
  3. noun A member of a group of U.S. soldiers specially trained for making raids either on foot, in ground vehicles, or by airlift.
2 more from this dictionary »

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (11)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (1)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (3)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

  • The park ranger was a creepy dude who said things like "Yep, we had enough mega-tonnage on this baby to destroy the world" as though that were some kind of badge of honor, and he was hankering to get down to destroying some country or another. —  The Silent "I"
  • Subsequently I have met others like him, and have come to realise that our ranger was not some unfortunate one-off, but a type: the voice of a particular constituency in green places. —  GREENIE WATCH
  • Then a park ranger, an older fellow with a friendly smile, drove up. —  Pacific Free Press - Hard Truths for Hard Times - Progressive opinion, dissident news
  • He bounced to his left to claw away Rob Lee's wobbling long-ranger, plunged to his right to keep out Ruel Fox and then changed direction brilliantly to repel John Beresford. —  Blogposts | guardian.co.uk
  • So here's a brief mention that - following (in the Camden Gazette's words) "more than 10 incidents involving cyclists crashing into pedestrians at speed" since January - a towpath ranger has been appointed to bring order to the chaos of the Regent's Canal and ensure users respect the rules. —  Londonist
More examples »
 

Tags

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 59 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Etymologies (1)

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. Early modern English also raunger; from range + -er. Cf. French rangeur, one who arranges.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »
/ˈreɪndʒər/
by American Heritage

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word about twice a month.

Recently looked up

garrulous · postponed · unexceptable · jugera · sanguine

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

Der dicke Dachdecker deckte dir dein Dach, drum dank dem dicken Dachdecker, dass der dicke Dachdecker dir dein Dach deckte. · weitläufig · und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind, so leben sie noch heute · redescheu · selbstverständlich