Arrange

Quick meaning: Arrange is a verb meaning (transitive) To set up; to organize; to put into an orderly sequence or arrangement.

Meaning

(transitive) To set up; to organize; to put into an orderly sequence or arrangement.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, intransitive) To plan; to prepare in advance.
2. (music, transitive, intransitive) To prepare and adapt an already-written composition for presentation in other than its original form.
3. (music, Japan) rearranged rendition of a song; arrangement

Example Sentences

to arrange to meet; to arrange for supper

It had been arranged as part of the day's programme that Mr. Cooke was to drive those who wished to go over the Rise in his new brake.

The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century,[…].

& whan the frensshe men sawe thus the hors come, whyche was longyng to rychard, they were al affrayed and moeued, and came & opened the gate, and anone he entred in; and after that the yate was shette, they arenged them aboute the sayd hors, for compassyon of sorowe, wepyng pyetously.

Word Forms

• arranges
• arranging
• arranged

Synonyms for arrange

Depending on context, synonyms include array, classify, order, organize, set up, range.

Antonyms for arrange

Common opposites include disarrange.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include order, put, set up, fix up, format, do.

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