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
• dude ranch
• guest ranch
• raised ranch
• ranch dressing
• rancher
• ranchhand
• ranch house
• ranch-sieve
• ranchslider
• ranch slider
• ranch-style

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
• 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, rancho (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

• 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

work on a ranch

Danish

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 and Urciolo, Raphael G. Haitian Creole-English dictionary (1993; →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

Declension of ranch

	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