Definitions for ranker

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ranker rank·er

Spelling: [rang-ker]

IPA: /ˈræŋ kər/

Ranker is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 64 anagrams from letters in ranker (aeknrr).

Definitions for ranker

noun

1. a person who ranks.
2. British. a soldier in the ranks or a commissioned officer promoted from the ranks.

adjective

1. growing with excessive luxuriance; vigorous and tall of growth:
2. producing an excessive and coarse growth, as land.
3. having an offensively strong smell or taste:
4. offensively strong, as a smell or taste.
5. utter; absolute:
6. highly offensive; disgusting:
7. grossly coarse, vulgar, or indecent:
8. Slang. inferior; contemptible.

Origin of ranker

First recorded in 1825-35; rank¹ + -er¹

Examples for ranker

As you all know, I am a ranker, and I received my commission for that business.

Out here one learns to appreciate the ranker more, and the commissioned man less.

I learned that a ranker, or private soldier, is a socially inferior being from the officer's point of view.

The fragrance attracts moths and flies; not mosquitoes, who prefer a ranker atmosphere.

ranker, a commissioned officer in the army who has risen from the ranks.

The gown of the dead woman made a little patch of melancholy color against the green of the grass and ranker ground growth.

But ranker than violets, harsher than kisses, lurked the blunt, unmistakable odor of ashes.

We also noticed that the vegetation was ranker and no doubt the soil was very rich.

It was better to be a field-marshal among the "kids" than a ranker among his peers.

It is clear that the President saw in this punctilio about a humane act, whose "offense was ranker."