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say it: RAYN-jur
ranger is a noun meaning "a member of the Texas state highway patrol; formerly a mounted lawman who maintained order on the frontier". It is pronounced /ˈɹeɪndʒɚ/ — RAYN-jur. It carries 3 recorded senses.
a member of the Texas state highway patrol; formerly a mounted lawman who maintained order on the frontier
an official who is responsible for managing and protecting an area of forest
a member of a military unit trained as shock troops for hit-and-run raids
military
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for ranger come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.