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  1. noun A relative position in a society.
  2. noun An official position or grade: the rank of sergeant.
  3. noun A relative position or degree of value in a graded group.
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  • While at the Bar, his rank was the first; this, combined with his integrity and great firmness, made him so conspicuous before the people of the State, that he was placed on the bench of the Supreme Court—a position he distinguished by his great legal attainments, dignity, and purity. —  The Memories of Fifty Years
  • His old schoolfellow, Joseph Joffre, was then building fortifications in northern Madagascar; and his army rank was the same as that of Foch. —  Foch the Man
  • I think the rank is the little arrow thigny next to your profile name in the Pregame Lobby, and I always see others with two or three, or gold. —  Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
  • The extra rank is also intended to ensure the state remains in control should the federal government mobilize the National Guard for a domestic emergency. —  - Latest Popular Stories, Instablogs Community
  • First cab off the rank is the revised edition of Kaz Cooke's Up The Duff (Penguin), first published in 1999. —  ta tvnz national headlines auto group
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  1. Middle English, line, row, from Old French ranc, renc, of Germanic origin; see sker-2 in Indo-European roots.
  2. Middle English ranc, from Old English, strong, overbearing; see reg- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English rank, ranc, ronk, raunk, renk, strong, proud, also rancid (influenced by Old French rance, ranci, rancid: see rancid); from Anglo-Saxon ranc, proud, forward, arrogant, showy, bold, valiant, = D. Middle Low German Low German G. rank, slender, projecting, lank, = Icelandic rakkr (for *rankr), straight, slender, bold, valiant, = Swedish rank, long and thin, = Danish rank, straight, erect, slender.
  2. from rank, a.
  3. Middle English *ranken, ronken; from rank, a.
  4. Early modern English also ranck, ranke; from Middle English renk, usually reng, plural renges, ringes, a row or line of soldiers, class, order, grade, station, from Old French renc, reng, later rang, French rang (later D. G. Danish Swedish rang), French dial. ringue, raing = Provencal renc = Old Catalan renc, a rank, row, range; from Old High German hring, hrinc, Middle High German rinc, German ring, a ring, = English ring: see ring, n. Cf. harangue, from the same ult. (Old High German) source. The Breton renk is from F.; Irish ranc from English
  5. Early modern English also ranck; from rank n., q. v.
 

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