Range Meaning
/ˈɹeɪnd͡ʒ/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA line or series of mountains, buildings, etc.
nounA fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many burners (hotplates).
Sentence Examples
Prices range from as low as $30 to as high as $50.
This gun has a range of 300 meters.
The hotel offers a wide range of facilities.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The local store offers a wide ____ of products, from fresh food to electronics.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The new product was designed to appeal to a wide ____ of customers across different age groups.
Word Origin & History
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.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Therein an hundred raunges weren pight, / And hundred fournaces all burning bright; / By euery fournace many feendes did byde, / Deformed creatures, horrible in ſight, / And euery feend his buſie paines applyde, / To melt the golden metall, ready to be tryde."
— 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 281:
"There was juſt ſuch another Innocent as this, in my Fathers Family : He did the Courſe Work in the Kitchin, and was bid at his firſt Coming to take off the Range, and let down the Cynders before he went to Bed."
— 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “[A Supplement of Fables […].] Fab[le] CCCCXXXVIII. A Fool and a Hot Iron.”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC, page 415:
"But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal."
— 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
"Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements."
— 2013 July 19, Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 18:
"There is a young cowboy, he lives on the range / His horse and his cattle are his only companions"
— 1970, James Taylor, “Sweet Baby James”, in Sweet Baby James, →OCLC:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The local store offers a wide ____ of products, from fresh food to electronics.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The new product was designed to appeal to a wide ____ of customers across different age groups.