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ranch

[ranch]

noun

  1. an establishment maintained for raising livestock under range conditions.

  2. Chiefly Western U.S. and Canada.a large farm used primarily to raise one kind of crop or animal.

    a mink ranch.

  3. a dude ranch.

  4. the persons employed or living on a ranch.

  5. ranch house.

  6. ranch dressing.

    I’ll have the small salad, with ranch on the side.



verb (used without object)

  1. to manage or work on a ranch.

ranch

/ ɑːԳʃ /

noun

  1. a large tract of land, esp one in North America, together with the necessary personnel, buildings, and equipment, for rearing livestock, esp cattle

    1. any large farm for the rearing of a particular kind of livestock or crop

      a mink ranch

    2. the buildings, land, etc, connected with it

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. (intr) to manage or run a ranch

  2. (tr) to raise (animals) on or as if on a ranch

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ranchless adjective
  • ranchlike adjective
  • unranched adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of ranch1

An Americanism dating from 1800–10; from Spanish rancho “farm, cattle farm, ranch”; rancho
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of ranch1

C19: from Mexican Spanish rancho small farm; see rancho
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“We spent a few holidays together, staying out at his ranch having buffets by the creek, and him and Jacquie coming to my house to discuss projects were always a treat,” Allen wrote on Facebook.

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Which is why I’m a little embarrassed, but mostly evangelical, about what I’ve come to believe: ranch dressing is the best dressing.

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Most of the sections that take place on the ranch closely adhere to the perspective of 4-year-old Gabriel, the child of Mason and Yunho’s good friends and business partners.

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Other area codes must settle for a tastefully decorated ranch far beyond New York’s city limits, like the one Nathan Lane’s Bunny Schneiderman shares with his mother in Palm Springs on “Mid-Century Modern.”

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In exile at her grandmother’s Oklahoma ranch, she meets Lucas Iron Eyes, who has been working since he was 16 and has no time for stroking her bruised ego.

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