range

Reading level: medium

Estimated CEFR level: B1 — Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control:
  2. noun the limits within which something can be effective
  3. noun a large tract of grassy open land on which livestock can graze

Etymology

From Middle English rengen, from Old French rengier (“to range, to rank, to order,”), from the noun renc, reng, ranc, rang (“a rank, row”), from Frankish *hring, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz (“ring, circle, curve”). Doublet of ring.

In classic literature

Synonyms

scope, reach, orbit, compass, ambit

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