rancho
English
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Spanish, properly, a mess, mess room. Compare ranch.
Noun
rancho (plural ranchos or ranchoes)
- (US, regional) A simple hut, as of posts, covered with branches or thatch, where herdsmen or farm workers may lodge at night.
- (US, regional) A large grazing farm where horses and cattle are raised; distinguished from hacienda, a cultivated farm or plantation.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Bartlett to this entry?)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “rancho”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old French se ranger (“to be quartered, take up a position”).
Noun
rancho m (plural ranchos)
- hut; rancho (primitive house)
- mess (food set for a group of people); especially in jail
- a group of people doing something together
- ranch (large plot for livestock); especially one in the western United States
- (carnaval) a representation of the pastoral lifestyle
Synonyms
- (hut): casebre
Spanish
Etymology
From rancharse, from arranchar, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French ranger, from rang, from Frankish *hring.
Noun
rancho m (plural ranchos)
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “rancho”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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