rank – English noun declension

English noun forms of rank

Noun: rank
Singularrank
Pluralranks

Sample Sentences

  • The front rank kneeled to reload while the second rank fired over their heads.
  • The Musketeers being on both flancks, firſt firing let the Ranck ſtand, and fire every Ranck, paſſing through before his leader[…] [1684, Richard Elton, The compleat body of the Art Military […] , 2nd edition, page 196:]
  • Then there was no more cover, for they straggled out, not in ranks but clusters, from among orange trees and tall, flowering shrubs[…]. [1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 7, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:]
  • The ranks are 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Jack, Queen, King, and Ace.
  • Based on your test scores, you have a rank of 23.
  • The fancy hotel was of the first rank.
  • a membership drawn from the ranks of wealthy European businessmen
  • Earlier this month police in Norfolk were called after five hives thought to contain around 60,000 bees and £600 worth of honey were taken. [...] Suspicions among beekeepers that the culprits come from their own ranks were underlined by the fact that a bee smoker was left at the scene by someone who presumably knew that it could be used to calm the insects before taking them. [2017 September 23, “From north Wales to Norfolk, distraught beekeepers ask: who’s stealing our hives?”, in The Observer:]
  • Private First Class (PFC) is the second-lowest rank in the Marines.
  • He rose up through the ranks of the company, from mailroom clerk to CEO.
  • Phylum is the taxonomic rank below kingdom and above class.

Etymology

1. From Middle English rank (“line, row”), from Old French ranc, rang, reng (“line, row, rank”) (Modern French rang), from Frankish *hring (“ring”), from Proto-Germanic *hringaz (“something bent or curved”). Displaced native Old English hād (“rank, status”).
2. Akin to Old High German (h)ring, Old Frisian hring, Old English hring, hrincg (“ring”), Old Norse hringr (“ring, circle, queue, sword; ship”). Doublet of ring and rink. See: Middle English Nouns 'rank', French Nouns 'rang', Old English Nouns 'hring', Old Norse Nouns 'hringr'.

Verbs referencing "rank"

Swedish Nouns rang, English Nouns ranch, Italian Nouns ranch, Finnish Nouns ranki.