1 : very fertile; producing profuse growth; "rank earth"
2 : conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; "a crying shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross ineptitude"; "gross injustice"; "rank treachery"
verbe
1 : take or have a position relative to others
nom
1 : position in a social hierarchy
2 : the body of members of an organization or group