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English
Pronunciation
Verb
ranking
- present participle and gerund of rank
Adjective
ranking (comparative more ranking, superlative most ranking)
- (in combination) Having a specified rank.
- 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.
- 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 — […]
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
ranking (plural rankings)
- One’s relative placement in a list.
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
placement in a list
- Catalan: rànquing m, classificació (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 排名 (zh) (páimíng), 排行 (zh) (páiháng)
- Dutch: klassement (nl) n, rang (nl) m, plaats (nl) f, rangschikking (nl) f, ranking (nl) f
- Finnish: sijoitus (fi)
- French: classement (fr) m
- Galician: clasificación (gl) f
- German: Rangordnung (de) f, Rangfolge (de) f, Ranking (de) n
- Greek: κατάταξη (el) f (katátaxi), ταξινόμηση (el) f (taxinómisi)
- Indonesian: peringkat (id)
- Japanese: 順位 (ja) (じゅんい, jun'i), 格付け (ja) (かくづけ, kakuzuke), ランキング (rankingu), 番付 (ja) (ばんづけ, banzuke)
- Malay: kedudukan (ms)
- Polish: ranking (pl) m, klasyfikacja (pl)
- Portuguese: classificação (pt) f
- Russian: ранжи́рование (ru) n (ranžírovanije), рэ́нкинг (ru) m (rɛ́nking), классифика́ция (ru) f (klassifikácija)
- Spanish: clasificación (es) f, ranking (es) m
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Anagrams
Basque
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish ranking, from English ranking.
Pronunciation
Noun
ranking inan
- ranking
Declension
Declension of ranking (inanimate, ending in consonant)
Further reading
- "ranking" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia , euskaltzaindia.eus
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from English ranking.
Pronunciation
Noun
ranking m inan
- ranking (placement in a list)
- Synonym: gradacja
Declension
Derived terms
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)
- ranking
- Synonym: classificação
Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English ranking.
Pronunciation
Noun
ranking m (plural rankings)
- 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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