ranch house
Americannoun
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the house of the owner of a ranch, usually of one story and with a low-pitched roof.
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Also called rambler. any one-story house of the same general form, especially one built in the suburbs.
Etymology
Origin of ranch house
An Americanism dating back to 1860–65
Example Sentences
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Within the monument, we rambled along Soda Lake Road, admiring windmills, an old ranch house now reserved for bats, and a few hills dotted with lazy cows.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026
My family first lived in a gold-colored, stucco ranch house with a black roof in a middle-class section of Woodland Hills.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026
That fall, we returned to Montreal and lived in a ranch house in Mount Royal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025
In 2006, more than 2,000 people attended a grand rededication of the grounds and reopening of the ranch house, which had been closed for three years amid a painstaking $5-million restoration.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2025
Jahrling, his wife, and their three children lived in Thurmont, not far from Nancy and Jerry Jaax, in a brick ranch house with a white picket fence out front.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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