Word familyadjectiveranchednounrancherrancheriarancherierancheroranchingranchrancho
Related topics: Agriculture, House
ranch /rɑːntʃ $ ræntʃ/ ●●○ noun [countableC]
1.TAa very large farm in the western US and Canada where sheep, cattle, or horses are bred 〔美国西部和加拿大的〕大牧场
2.DHHa ranch house 平房;牧场主住宅
Examples from the Corpus
ranch• He and a Boston friend bought a ranch in Laramie and raised sheep, then steer, on the open range.• We lived first on a ranch.• a four-bedroom ranch• a cattle ranch• Robert Daley settled the property in 1869, first as a horse and cattle ranch and then as a dairy operation.• We saw small towns and huge cities, chicken farms and horse ranches.• I sail past a little development of off-the-shelf ranch homes.• The bloody siege of the ranch complex in Waco has already left at least six police and cult members dead.• Over the years, the ranch shrank.
Originranch
(1800-1900)Mexican Spanishrancho, from Spanish, “camp, small building, small farm”, from Frenchranger“to put in a row”