Rank

Rank

Rank refers to the relative position, value, worth, complexity, power, importance, authority, level etc. of a person or object, including:

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Famous quotes containing the word rank:

    “Lady Hodmarsh and the duchess immediately assumed the clinging affability that persons of rank assume with their inferiors in order to show them that they are not in the least conscious of any difference in station between them.”
    —W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)

    “Archbishop—A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.”
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    “West of this place, down in the neighbor bottom,
    The rank of osiers by the murmuring stream
    Left on your right hand brings you to the place.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)