ranch

See also: Ranch

English

Etymology

Recorded since 1808, farm sense since 1831. From American Spanish rancho (“small farm, group of farm huts”), in Spanish originally “group of people who eat together." Cognate with English rank.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹɑːnt͡ʃ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɹænt͡ʃ/

  • Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːntʃ, -æntʃ

Noun

ranch (countable and uncountable, plural ranches)

1. A large plot of land used for raising cattle, sheep or other livestock.
   • 1899, Stephen Crane, chapter 1, in Twelve O'Clock:

     There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town. “Mason Rickets, he had ten big punkins a-sittin' in front of his store, an' them fellers from the Upside-down-F ranch shot 'em up […].”

2. A small farm that cultivates vegetables or livestock, especially one in the Southwestern United States.
3. A house or property on a plot of ranch land.
4. (uncountable) Ranch dressing.

Derived terms

• bet the ranch
• bunny ranch
• cattle ranch
• dude ranch
• guest ranch
• raised ranch
• ranchboy
• ranchburger
• ranch dressing
• rancher
• ranchette
• ranchgirl
• ranchhand
• ranch house
• ranchhouse
• ranchland
• ranchlike
• ranchman
• ranch-sieve
• ranch slider
• ranchslider
• ranchstead
• ranch-style
• ranchwoman
• ranchy
• splanch

Translations

large plot of land

Bulgarian: ранчо n (rančo) Catalan: ranxo m Chamicuro: pkwachi Chinese: Mandarin: 牧場 / 牧场 (zh) (mùchǎng) Danish: ranch (da) c Dutch: veefokkerij (nl) f, landgoed (nl) n Esperanto: ranĉo French: ranch (fr) m German: Ranch (de) f Hungarian: farm (hu) Ido: rancho (io) Japanese: ランチ (ja) (ranchi), 牧場 (ja) (ぼくじょう, bokujō) Korean: 목장 (ko) (mokjang) Latin: lātifundium n Polish: ranczo (pl) n Portuguese: rancho (pt) m Russian: ра́нчо (ru) n (ránčo), фе́рма (ru) f (férma) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ранч m Roman: ranč (sh) m Spanish: rancho (es) m Swahili: ranchi Tagalog: rantso, bakahan Taos: ràncuʼúna Vietnamese: điền trang (vi)

small farm that cultivates vegetables or livestock

Bulgarian: ранчо n (rančo) Czech: ranč (cs) m Dutch: ranch (nl) Esperanto: ranĉo French: ranch (fr) m German: Ranch (de) m, Farm (de) f Ido: rancho (io) Italian: ranch (it) Ottoman Turkish: چفتلك (çiftlik) Polish: ranczo (pl) n Portuguese: chácara (pt) f Russian: ра́нчо (ru) n (ránčo), фе́рма (ru) f (férma) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ранч m Roman: ranč (sh) m Spanish: rancho (es) m Swahili: ranchi Tagalog: rantso, bakahan

house or property on a ranch land

Polish: ranczo (pl) n Russian: ра́нчо (ru) n (ránčo), фе́рма (ru) f (férma) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ранч m Roman: ranč (sh) m

ranch dressing — see ranch dressing

Verb

ranch (third-person singular simple present ranches, present participle ranching, simple past and past participle ranched)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To operate a ranch; to engage in ranching.

   Formally the widow still ranches, but in fact she leaves all ranching to the foreman.

2. (transitive, intransitive) To work on a ranch.

   Bill had ranched only five years when his dad made him foreman.

Translations

operate a ranch

Polish: prowadzić ranczo impf

work on a ranch

Polish: pracować na ranczu impf

Danish

Danish Wikipedia has an article on:

ranch

Wikipedia ^da

Etymology

From English ranch.

Noun

ranch c (singular definite ranchen, plural indefinite rancher)

1. a ranch

Declension

Declension of ranch

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ranch	ranchen	rancher	rancherne
genitive	ranchs	ranchens	ranchers	ranchernes

Derived terms

• gæsteranch

See also

• rancher

References

• “ranch” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English ranch, from Spanish rancho (“small farm, group of farm huts”).

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

ranch m (plural ranches or ranchen, diminutive ranchje n)

1. ranch, notably livestock breeding farm, especially in North America and in other English-speaking countries

Related terms

• rancher m

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French hanche.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɣãʃ/

Noun

ranch

1. hip

References

• Targète, Jean; Urciolo, Raphael (1993), Haitian Creole-English Dictionary‎, Dunwoody Press, →ISBN

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English ranch. Cognate with English rank; doublet of rancio.

Noun

ranch m (invariable)

1. a ranch, notably livestock breeding farm

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English ranch.

Noun

ranch n (plural ranch-uri)

1. ranch

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	ranch	ranch-ul		ranch-uri	ranch-urile
genitive-dative	ranch	ranch-ului		ranch-uri	ranch-urilor
vocative	ranch-ule			ranch-urilor

Swedish

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:

ranch

Wikipedia ^sv

Etymology

Borrowed from English ranch.

Noun

ranch c

1. a ranch (in North America)

Declension

Declension of ranch

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	ranch	ranchs
	definite	ranchen	ranchens
plural	indefinite	rancher	ranchers
	definite	rancherna	ranchernas

See also

• boskap (“cattle”)
• cowboy
• farm
• gård
• ranchdressing

References

• ranch in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• ranch in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• ranch in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)