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.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɑːnt͡ʃ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹænt͡ʃ/
  • (æ-raising) IPA^(key): /ˈɹeə̯nt͡ʃ/, /ˈɹɛə̯nt͡ʃ/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːntʃ, -æntʃ
• Hyphenation: ranch

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.

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.

From English ranch.

ranch c (singular definite ranchen, plural indefinite rancher)

1. a ranch

• gæsteranch

• rancher

• “ranch” in Den Danske Ordbog

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

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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

• rancher m

From French hanche.

• IPA^(key): /ɣãʃ/

ranch

1. hip

• Targète, Jean; Urciolo, Raphael (1993), Haitian Creole-English Dictionary‎^[1], Dunwoody Press, →ISBN

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

ranch m (invariable)

1. a ranch, notably livestock breeding farm

Borrowed from English ranch.

ranch n (plural ranch-uri)

1. ranch

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Borrowed from English ranch.

ranch c

1. a ranch (in North America)

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

• “ranch”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “ranch”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “ranch”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

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