2. Verb. (third-person singular of rank)'' ¹
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Definition of Ranks
1. rank [v] - See also: rank
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ranks
Literary usage of Ranks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"Anon would Ajax all his might recall, Wheel round to face them, and make halt
their ranks ; Anon would turn again to more retreat; Yet stay'd them thus from ..."
2. The Republic of Plato by Plato, Benjamin Jowett (1881)
"... then nature orders a transposition of ranks, and the eye of the ruler must
not be pitiful towards his child because he has to descend in the scale and ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... ranks high in the production of fruits, the horticultural products for the
... Kansas ranks eleventh in the list of States, coming between Illinois and ..."
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