RANGER

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• RANGER (noun)
  The noun RANGER has 3 senses:

1. a member of the Texas state highway patrol; formerly a mounted lawman who maintained order on the frontier

2. an official who is responsible for managing and protecting an area of forest

3. a member of a military unit trained as shock troops for hit-and-run raids

  Familiarity information: RANGER used as a noun is uncommon.

• RANGER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of the Texas state highway patrol; formerly a mounted lawman who maintained order on the frontier

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Ranger; Texas Ranger

Hypernyms ("Ranger" is a kind of...):

law officer; lawman; peace officer (an officer of the law)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An official who is responsible for managing and protecting an area of forest

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

fire warden; forest fire fighter; ranger

Hypernyms ("ranger" is a kind of...):

fire-eater; fire fighter; firefighter; fireman (a member of a fire department who tries to extinguish fires)

functionary; official (a worker who holds or is invested with an office)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ranger"):

coyote (a forest fire fighter who is sent to battle remote and severe forest fires (often for days at a time))

Sense 3

Meaning:

A member of a military unit trained as shock troops for hit-and-run raids

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

commando; ranger

Hypernyms ("ranger" is a kind of...):

man; military man; military personnel; serviceman (someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

 Context examples 

Aboriginal rangers have discovered new evidence of one of Australia’s rarest and most mysterious birds.

(Aboriginal Rangers Find Evidence of One of Australia’s Rarest Birds, VOA)

Alexander Watson, a biologist at conservation group, WWF Australia, who has worked with Aboriginal rangers in the Great Sandy Desert of Western Australia, says it is an extraordinary discovery.

(Aboriginal Rangers Find Evidence of One of Australia’s Rarest Birds, VOA)

There have been precious few sightings since, but indigenous wildlife rangers say they have photographed one of the nocturnal, ground-dwelling birds in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.

(Aboriginal Rangers Find Evidence of One of Australia’s Rarest Birds, VOA)

It is just an indistinct flash of pale green and yellow captured on a motion sensor camera but experts believe Aboriginal rangers have found a new population of one of Australia's most elusive birds.

(Aboriginal Rangers Find Evidence of One of Australia’s Rarest Birds, VOA)