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See also: Ranking and ránking

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɹæn.kɪŋ/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈɹæŋ.kɪŋ/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ænkɪŋ

Verb

ranking

  1. present participle and gerund of rank

Adjective

ranking (comparative more ranking, superlative most ranking)

  1. (in combination) Having a specified rank.
  2. Superior in rank.
    • 2002, Stephen Tanner, Afghanistan: A Military History from Alexander the Great to the War against the Taliban, page 176:
      Eldred Pottinger was now the ranking political officer and had negotiated—at the insistence of the army's officers—an unmolested passage to Jalalabad.
  3. Prominent or outstanding.
    • 1973, Chiao-min Hsieh, “Inner Mongolia”, in Christopher L. Salter, editor, Atlas of China‎, McGraw-Hill, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 188, column 1:
      In a region as large and sparsely populated as this, it is not surprising that there are few cities. Hu-ho-hao-t’e and Pao-t’ou are the two ranking cities of Inner Mongolia. Hu-ho-hao-t’e, the capital of the region, is one of China's famous ancient cities; it was once a trade center to which the wool, hides, food, and medicine from the surrounding grasslands were brought.
    • 1990, Robert Christgau, Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s, page 48:
      But neither leader nor followers give up the rhythms or reasons of a ranking MC, and I'm grieved to report that only “Kick Out the Jams” overcomes the formlessness of personality his detractors have always charged him with — […]

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Translations

Noun

ranking (plural rankings)

  1. One’s relative placement in a list.

Derived terms

Descendants

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Basque

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish ranking, from English ranking.

Pronunciation

Noun

ranking inan

  1. ranking

Declension

Declension of ranking (inanimate, ending in consonant)
indefinite singular plural
absolutive ranking rankinga rankingak
ergative rankingek rankingak rankingek
dative rankingi rankingari rankingei
genitive rankingen rankingaren rankingen
comitative rankingekin rankingarekin rankingekin
causative rankingengatik rankingarengatik rankingengatik
benefactive rankingentzat rankingarentzat rankingentzat
instrumental rankingez rankingaz rankingez
inessive rankingetan rankingean rankingetan
locative rankingetako rankingeko rankingetako
allative rankingetara rankingera rankingetara
terminative rankingetaraino rankingeraino rankingetaraino
directive rankingetarantz rankingerantz rankingetarantz
destinative rankingetarako rankingerako rankingetarako
ablative rankingetatik rankingetik rankingetatik
partitive rankingik — —
prolative rankingtzat — —

Further reading

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English ranking, equivalent to ranken +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: ran‧king

Noun

ranking f or m (plural rankings)

  1. ranking, relative placement in a list
    De ranking van dit ziekenhuis is in verschillende lijstjes van verschillende kranten heel anders.
    The ranking of this hospital is very different in different lists of different newspapers.
  2. ranking, classification
    In sporten als honkbal en basketbal worden in Amerika heel veel verschillende rankings bijgehouden.
    Many different rankings are maintained in America in sports such as baseball and basketball.

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

Etymology

Borrowed from English ranking.

Pronunciation

Noun

ranking m inan

  1. ranking (placement in a list)
    Synonym: gradacja

Declension

Declension of ranking
singular plural
nominative ranking rankingi
genitive rankingu rankingów
dative rankingowi rankingom
accusative ranking rankingi
instrumental rankingiem rankingami
locative rankingu rankingach
vocative rankingu rankingi

Derived terms

(adjective):

Further reading

  • ranking in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • ranking in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English ranking.

Pronunciation

 

Noun

ranking m (plural rankings)

  1. ranking
    Synonym: classificação

Spanish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English ranking.

Pronunciation

Noun

ranking m (plural rankings)

  1. ranking
    Synonym: clasificación

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

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