Other forms: rangers
A ranger is the official who looks after a park or a forest. A park ranger, the ranger's hut, ask a ranger.
The job is half conservation and half policing, and in parts of Africa and Asia it is genuinely dangerous — rangers are killed protecting wildlife from poaching every year. In the American army a Ranger is a soldier of an elite light infantry unit.
1nounrangerAn official who looks after a park or forest.
“The park ranger warned us not to feed the bears.”
ranger is an official.
Proto-Indo-European
*(s)ker- (turn)
Old French
rengier
Middle English
rengen
English
range
English, today
ranger
Built from
From range + -er. range comes from Middle English rengen, from Old French rengier. 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”). a doublet of ring.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA