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# ranger

«ranger» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person whose job is to look after a park, forest or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (ranger, rangers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A ranger is a person whose job is to look after a park, forest or wild area, protect its animals and plants, and help and guide visitors. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ranger/#m1)

2) In some armies, a ranger is a specially trained soldier. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ranger/#m2)

3) In stories, a ranger is someone who wanders and guards wild lands. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ranger/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Everyday life and safety: in national parks (USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, UK) rangers give talks, mark trails, warn about danger such as bears, fires or floods, and rescue lost walkers — if you are lost or hurt in a park, find a ranger. In science, rangers count animals and stop poachers. Phrases: park ranger, forest ranger, ranger station, junior ranger.

### examples

- The park ranger showed us how to tell a bear track from a dog track. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ranger/#x1)
- Ask a ranger before you light a campfire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ranger/#x2)
- The ranger station is at the start of the trail. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ranger/#x3)
- Rangers counted the koalas in the forest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ranger/#x4)
- I earned a Junior Ranger badge at Yellowstone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ranger/#x5)
- A ranger closed the path because of the flood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ranger/#x6)
- In the story, the ranger guarded the forest from the wolves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ranger/#x7)

### note

Countable: a ranger, rangers. Rangers are helpers you can trust in parks, like police officers in a town; they usually wear a uniform and a badge. Do not confuse with «range» (a row of mountains, or a set of numbers from smallest to largest).

### In the corpora

- [Sumatran elephants are the smallest Asian elephants, and some trained elephants help rangers patrol the forest and lead wild elephants away from farms.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/162-sumatra-tigers-hairy-rhinos-and-the-venomous-loris/16/)
- [Every kakapo has a name and is watched by rangers, and there are now about 250.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/282-comeback-stories-bald-eagles-humpback-whales-condors-and-the-kakapo/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ranger» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ranger/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.