ranger

See also: Ranger

English

Etymology

From the verb range +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹeɪndʒə(ɹ)/
• IPA^(key): /ˈɹeɪndʒɚ/
• Rhymes: -eɪndʒə(ɹ)

Noun

ranger (plural rangers)

1. One who ranges; a rover.
   1. A roving robber; one who seeks plunder.
2. A keeper, guardian, or soldier who ranges over a region (generally of wilderness) to protect the area or enforce the law.
3. (obsolete) That which separates or arranges; a sieve.
   • Holland

     The tamis ranger.

4. A dog that beats the ground in search of game.
5. (military) In some modern armies, an elite soldier, similar to special forces but often operating in larger units.
6. (literature) (roleplaying games) A warrior character, often with wilderness and stealth skill, who typically travels the countryside.
7. (roleplaying games) A character skilled in the use of ranged weapons.

Translations

one who ranges; a rover

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Park ranger

• Catalan: guardabosc (ca) m
• Esperanto: arbargardisto
• French: garde forestier (fr) m
• Italian: guardia forestale m
• Japanese: 動物管理官 (どうぶつかんりかん, dōbutsu kanri kan)
• Persian: رنجر (renjer)
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• Polish: strażnik leśny m
• Portuguese: guarda florestal
• Scottish Gaelic: (of a forest) maor-coille m
• Spanish: alimañero m, guardaparque m, guardabosque (es) m, guardacaza m, montaraz (es) m
• Tagalog: tanod-gubat
• Turkish: korucu (tr), bekçi (tr)

a dog that beats the ground in search of game

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The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Czech: hraničář m
• Greek: ρέιτζερ m (réitzer)
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• Japanese: レンジャー (renjā)
• Serbo-Croatian: ренџер m (rendžer)

Verb

ranger (third-person singular simple present rangers, present participle rangering, simple past and past participle rangered)

1. (rare, transitive) To work as a ranger.
   • 1993, Robert Kammen, Rattlers Roost (page 59)

     Just like down in Texas when I was rangering, you just keep turning over rocks […]

   • 2011, Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove:

     He saw men long dead whom he had rangered with, saw Pedro Flores and Pea Eye and a redheaded whore he had taken up with for a month in his riverboating days.

Anagrams

• Garner, Garren, Graner, garner

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French

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɑ̃.dʒœʁ/

Noun

ranger m (plural rangers)

1. a ranger, one who looks after a region

Etymology 2

From rang.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɑ̃.ʒe/

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Verb

ranger

1. to order, to arrange
2. to put away, to put aside, to stack away, to stow
3. (reflexive, se ranger) to go along

   Elle s’est rangée à son avis.

   She went along with him.

Conjugation

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written range- before endings that begin with -a- or -o- (to indicate that the -g- is a "soft" /ʒ/ and not a "hard" /ɡ/). This spelling-change occurs in all verbs in -ger, such as neiger and manger.

Conjugation of ranger (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ranger
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	rangeant /ʁɑ̃.ʒɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		rangé /ʁɑ̃.ʒe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	range /ʁɑ̃ʒ/	ranges /ʁɑ̃ʒ/	range /ʁɑ̃ʒ/	rangeons /ʁɑ̃.ʒɔ̃/	rangez /ʁɑ̃.ʒe/	rangent /ʁɑ̃ʒ/
	imperfect	rangeais /ʁɑ̃.ʒɛ/	rangeais /ʁɑ̃.ʒɛ/	rangeait /ʁɑ̃.ʒɛ/	rangions /ʁɑ̃.ʒjɔ̃/	rangiez /ʁɑ̃.ʒje/	rangeaient /ʁɑ̃.ʒɛ/
	past historic2	rangeai /ʁɑ̃.ʒe/	rangeas /ʁɑ̃.ʒa/	rangea /ʁɑ̃.ʒa/	rangeâmes /ʁɑ̃.ʒam/	rangeâtes /ʁɑ̃.ʒat/	rangèrent /ʁɑ̃.ʒɛʁ/
	future	rangerai /ʁɑ̃ʒ.ʁe/	rangeras /ʁɑ̃ʒ.ʁa/	rangera /ʁɑ̃ʒ.ʁa/	rangerons /ʁɑ̃ʒ.ʁɔ̃/	rangerez /ʁɑ̃ʒ.ʁe/	rangeront /ʁɑ̃ʒ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	rangerais /ʁɑ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/	rangerais /ʁɑ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/	rangerait /ʁɑ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/	rangerions /ʁɑ̃.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/	rangeriez /ʁɑ̃.ʒə.ʁje/	rangeraient /ʁɑ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	range /ʁɑ̃ʒ/	ranges /ʁɑ̃ʒ/	range /ʁɑ̃ʒ/	rangions /ʁɑ̃.ʒjɔ̃/	rangiez /ʁɑ̃.ʒje/	rangent /ʁɑ̃ʒ/
	imperfect2	rangeasse /ʁɑ̃.ʒas/	rangeasses /ʁɑ̃.ʒas/	rangeât /ʁɑ̃.ʒa/	rangeassions /ʁɑ̃.ʒa.sjɔ̃/	rangeassiez /ʁɑ̃.ʒa.sje/	rangeassent /ʁɑ̃.ʒas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	range /ʁɑ̃ʒ/	—	rangeons /ʁɑ̃.ʒɔ̃/	rangez /ʁɑ̃.ʒe/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “ranger”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

ranger

1. (deprecated template usage) imperative of rangere

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Portuguese

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɐ̃.ˈʒe(ɾ)/
• IPA^(key): /ʁɐ̃.ˈʒeɾ/

Verb

1. (intransitive) to creak (to make a prolonged sharp squeaking sound)
   • 2012 (originally 2011), George R. R. Martin, Alexandre Martins (translator), Ruas Estranhas (originally Down these strange streets), Casa da Palavra, page 212:

     A maldita porta rangeu quando a abri.

     The damn door creaked when I opened it.

2. (transitive) to grind (one’s teeth)
   • 2012, Mary Bath-Balogh, Margareth J. Fehrenbach,, Anatomia, Histologia e Embriologia dos Dentes e Estruturas Orofaciais, Elsevier, page 358:

     Em pacientes que apresentam o hábito de apertamento dental ou de ranger os dentes (bruxismo), […]

     In patients who exhibit the habit dental squeezing or of grinding their teeth (bruxism), […]