social rank
Example Sentences
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Together, these patterns offer a rare view of how family relationships may have shaped authority, inheritance, and social rank within the settlement.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026
It proposes to address hierarchical orders, social rank, slavery, colonialism, expropriation and the interweaving of mind and body, matter and spirit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 22, 2025
An individually tailored wig by a good maker was a signal of wealth and social rank and could cost the equivalent of thousands of pounds today.
From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2021
One prominent example, roughly analogous to caste or social status, relates to "social rank" among hyena societies.
From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2021
Kind was at first a family connection, later an elevated social rank, and finally came to rest meaning kindly or gentle.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
