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Definition of Higher rank
1. Noun. Higher rank than that of others especially by reason of longer service.
Generic synonyms: High Status
Attributes: Senior, Junior
Derivative terms: Senior
Lexicographical Neighbors of Higher Rank
Literary usage of Higher rank
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... of the chapela in the cathedral, rich as several of them are in works of
artistic value, can a higher rank be assigned than to the chapel of Si. ..."
2. Observations, Anecdotes, and Characters, of Books and Men by Joseph Spence (1820)
"... and as placed by some in a higher rank than he deserved. Mr. Pope always used
to call Farquhar " a farce writer." ROWE. ..."
3. The Theory of Functions of a Real Variable and the Theory of Fourier's Series by Ernest William Hobson (1907)
"A simply infinite ascending aggregate, or simple sequence, is an ordered aggregate
which has no element of higher rank than all the others, and is such that ..."
4. American Politics (non-partisan) from the Beginning to Date: Embodying a by Thomas Valentine Cooper (1892)
"Lincoln's prepa- an equal or higher rank in the confederate \ Mississippi, February
21st, 1865 ; John H. service. Postmasters were directed to make Reagan, ..."
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