Associations to the word «Rankin»

Wiktionary

RANKIN, proper noun. A Scottish and Northern Irish surname, from a diminutive of the name Ronald.

Dictionary definition

RANKIN, noun. Leader in the women's suffrage movement in Montana; the first woman to serve in the United States House of Representatives (1880-1973).

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope