ranch
an establishment maintained for raising livestock under range conditions.
Chiefly Western U.S. and Canada. a large farm used primarily to raise one kind of crop or animal: a mink ranch.
a dude ranch.
the persons employed or living on a ranch.
ranch dressing: I’ll have the small salad, with ranch on the side.
to manage or work on a ranch.
Origin of ranch
1Other words from ranch
- ranchless, adjective
- ranchlike, adjective
- un·ranched, adjective
Words that may be confused with ranch
- ranch , wrench
Words Nearby ranch
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How to use ranch in a sentence
Grant replaces traditional corn with rice, smothering it in Pecorino and a vegan ranch.
At Jackie, food is a catalyst for conversation | Evan Caplan | September 24, 2020 | Washington BladeStemple Creek, for example, uses techniques on its entire ranch to offset beef emissions.
This restaurant duo want a zero-carbon food system. Can it happen? | Bobbie Johnson | September 24, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewRoughly 100 years after Cross founded his ranch, it passed into the hands of his grandson John.
After the boom: Canada’s oil capital faces an uncertain future | kdunn6 | September 21, 2020 | FortuneThen all of a sudden, there’s like a whole neighborhood of ranch-style homes or ranches, and these people have homes out in the middle of the forest, essentially, or a dried forest.
What the Photos of Wildfires and Smoke Don’t Show You | by Elizabeth Weil and Lisa Larson-Walker | September 21, 2020 | ProPublicaHe gave it to me before I went to live on a cattle ranch in Brazil, where I wouldn’t have any connection with the outside world for months.
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My dad had worked for a while as a ranch hand, and his “Open Road” was a remnant of those days.
She is a waitress, he helps run the family ranch, and something more criminal.
How Will They End ‘The Affair’? Showtime’s Adultery Drama Defies Predictability | Tim Teeman | December 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOf all the people to look up to for a back-to-nature stance, why the monster from Spahn ranch?
On November 23, from his ranch in Texas, Johnson spoke on the phone with acting Secretary of State George Ball.
‘Argo’ in the Congo: The Ghosts of the Stanleyville Hostage Crisis | Nina Strochlic | November 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe does not remember exactly when they first moved onto the ranch.
Sometimes he did, although when I saw the worst coming I generally managed to get him over to the ranch.
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonOf course you would have all the riding you wanted, but there are no round-ups worth speaking of on a ranch the size of Lumalitas.
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonYou have no idea how cosey and pretty your ranch-house looks, and I have sent out my uncle's law—and farm—library.
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonHe gathered the heap and flung it into a corner, then caught up his hat and struck out for the loneliest part of the ranch.
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonMany acres of the ranch were profitably let, although by the month only, as pasture both for cows and horses.
Ancestors | Gertrude Atherton
British Dictionary definitions for ranch
/ (rɑːntʃ) /
a large tract of land, esp one in North America, together with the necessary personnel, buildings, and equipment, for rearing livestock, esp cattle
any large farm for the rearing of a particular kind of livestock or crop: a mink ranch
the buildings, land, etc, connected with it
(intr) to manage or run a ranch
(tr) to raise (animals) on or as if on a ranch
Origin of ranch
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