HIGHER RANK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does higher rank mean? 

• HIGHER RANK (noun)
  The noun HIGHER RANK has 1 sense:

1. higher rank than that of others especially by reason of longer service

  Familiarity information: HIGHER RANK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HIGHER RANK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Higher rank than that of others especially by reason of longer service

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

higher rank; higher status; senior status; seniority

Hypernyms ("higher rank" is a kind of...):

high status (a position of superior status)

Attribute:

senior (older; higher in rank; longer in length of tenure or service)

junior (younger; lower in rank; shorter in length of tenure or service)

 Context examples 

She would have given a great deal, or endured a great deal, to have had the Martins in a higher rank of life.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Mrs. Ferrars at first reasonably endeavoured to dissuade him from marrying Miss Dashwood, by every argument in her power;—told him, that in Miss Morton he would have a woman of higher rank and larger fortune;—and enforced the assertion, by observing that Miss Morton was the daughter of a nobleman with thirty thousand pounds, while Miss Dashwood was only the daughter of a private gentleman with no more than THREE; but when she found that, though perfectly admitting the truth of her representation, he was by no means inclined to be guided by it, she judged it wisest, from the experience of the past, to submit—and therefore, after such an ungracious delay as she owed to her own dignity, and as served to prevent every suspicion of good-will, she issued her decree of consent to the marriage of Edward and Elinor.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)