range

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A set of different things of the same general kind.

   The shop sells a wide range of shoes.

2. 2
   noun

   The limits between which something can vary or reach.

   This phone is in my price range.

3. 3
   verb

   To vary between set limits.

   Prices range from ten to fifty dollars.

4. 4
   noun

   A line of mountains or hills.

   Snow covered the whole mountain range.

5. 5
   noun

   A place where people practise shooting.

   The soldiers trained at the shooting range.

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.

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