Range Definition
rānj
ranged, ranges, ranging
noun
ranges
A number or grouping of things in the same category or within specified limits.
Offers a range of financial services; jobs at different pay ranges.
American Heritage
A series of connected mountains or hills considered as a single system.
Webster's New World
A class, kind, or order.
Webster's New World
Extent of perception, knowledge, experience, or ability.
Calculus is simply out of my range.
American Heritage
The path of flight for a missile or rocket.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
- field
- grazing land
- pasture
- prairie-land
- plain
- lea
- meadow
- grassland
- portable range
- electric range
- gas range
- chain of mountains
- mountain-chain
- range of mountains
- mountain-range
verb
ranged, ranges, ranging
To extend, reach, or lie in a given direction or in a row.
Hills ranging toward the south.
Webster's New World
To put into the proper class or classes; systematize.
Webster's New World
To vary between stated limits.
Children ranging in age from 5 to 12
Webster's New World
To cover or have application to a number of things.
Their conversation ranged over the major issues of the day. Her responsibilities range across all aspects of the negotiations.
American Heritage
To place with others in a cause, party, etc.
To range oneself with the rebels.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
Antonyms:
- be direct
- disorder
- disorganize
- restrict
- limit
adjective
Of a range, or open grazing place.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
Origin of Range
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From Middle English rengen, from Old French renger (“range, rank, order, array”), from rang (“a rank, row”), from Old High German hring, hrinc, Middle High German rinc (“a ring”).
From Wiktionary
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Middle English row, rank from Old French from rangier to put in a row from rang, reng line of Germanic origin sker-2 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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