· a row or line of people (especially soldiers or police) standing abreast of one another; "the entrance was guarded by ranks of policemen"

Hypernym(s): line

· relative status; "his salary was determined by his rank and seniority"

Hypernym(s): status, position

· the ordinary members of an organization (such as the enlisted soldiers of an army); "the strike was supported by the union rank and file"; "he rose from the ranks to become a colonel"

Synonym(s): rank_and_file

Hypernym(s): force, personnel

· position in a social hierarchy; "the British are more aware of social status than Americans are"

Synonym(s): social_station, social_status, social_rank

Hypernym(s): status, position

· the body of members of an organization or group; "they polled their membership"; "they found dissension in their own ranks"; "he joined the ranks of the unemployed"

Synonym(s): membership

Hypernym(s): body

· take or have a position relative to others; "This painting ranks among the best in the Western World"

Hypernym(s): be

· assign a rank or rating to; "how would you rank these students?"; "The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide"

Synonym(s): rate, range, order, grade, place

Hypernym(s): evaluate, pass_judgment, judge

· take precedence or surpass others in rank

Synonym(s): outrank

Hypernym(s): excel, stand_out, surpass

· very fertile; producing profuse growth; "rank earth"

· very offensive in smell or taste; "a rank cigar"

· conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; "a crying shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross ineptitude"; "gross injustice"; "rank treachery"

Synonym(s): crying, egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross

· complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers; "absolute freedom"; "an absolute dimwit"; "a downright lie"; "out-and-out mayhem"; "an out-and-out lie"; "a rank outsider"; "many right-down vices"; "got the job through sheer persistence"; "sheer stupidity"

Synonym(s): absolute, downright, out-and-out, right-down, sheer

· growing profusely; "rank jungle vegetation"