Kilo Lingo

/ˈreɪndʒə/

Line drawing of ranger
Coloured illustration of ranger
#2155 of 5,000 Core 5000

Translation

A person whose job is to look after a forest or a large park.

Word origin

From range plus the ending -er; a ranger originally ranged, or roamed, across an area of land to guard it.

Origin
Old French
Root
rangier
English cognates
range, arrange

Grammar

Gender
Pluralrangers

Examples

.

A ranger knows the land they look after very well.

.

"Park ranger" is the full name of the job.

.

"Rangers" is the plural, meaning more than one ranger.

Add to review queue

Track this word in your spaced-repetition queue and be tested on it at the right interval.

Go to my review queue

This word is part of lesson 44.