Word Meaning

Meaning of "ranks" and the crossword clue

- Classify
- Gross
- Military status
- Odorous
- outrageous
- Smelling bad
- Social class
- Status
- Taxi waiting area
- Troop formation
- Grades
- Lines of soldiers in cab queues
- merits
- Orders
- Social positions
- Soldiers
- Luxuriant in growth; of vigorous growth; exuberant; grown to immoderate height; as, rank grass; rank weeds.
- Raised to a high degree; violent; extreme; gross; utter; as, rank heresy.
- Causing vigorous growth; producing luxuriantly; very rich and fertile; as, rank land.
- Strong-scented; rancid; musty; as, oil of a rank smell; rank-smelling rue.
- Strong to the taste.
- Inflamed with venereal appetite.
- Rankly; stoutly; violently.
- A row or line; a range; an order; a tier; as, a rank of osiers.
- A line of soldiers ranged side by side; -- opposed to file. See 1st File, 1 (a).
- Grade of official standing, as in the army, navy, or nobility; as, the rank of general; the rank of admiral.
- An aggregate of individuals classed together; a permanent social class; an order; a division; as, ranks and orders of men; the highest and the lowest ranks of men, or of other intelligent beings.
- Degree of dignity, eminence, or excellence; position in civil or social life; station; degree; grade; as, a writer of the first rank; a lawyer of high rank.
- Elevated grade or standing; high degree; high social position; distinction; eminence; as, a man of rank.
- To place abreast, or in a line.
- To range in a particular class, order, or division; to class; also, to dispose methodically; to place in suitable classes or order; to classify.
- To take rank of; to outrank.
- To be ranged; to be set or disposed, as in a particular degree, class, order, or division.
- To have a certain grade or degree of elevation in the orders of civil or military life; to have a certain degree of esteem or consideration; as, he ranks with the first class of poets; he ranks high in public estimation.