rancho
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Etymology edit
Spanish, properly, a mess, mess room. Compare ranch.
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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.
- 1840, Richard Henry Dana Jr., Two Years Before the Mast:
- The nearest house, they told us, was a rancho, or cattle-farm, about three miles off.
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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)
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rancho
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from Spanish rancho, deverbal of rancharse (“to get ready, to settle in a place”); 16th century military terminology from French se ranger (“to arrange onself”), from rang (“row, line”), from Frankish *hring.
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rancho m (plural ranchos)
- settlement
- ranch (small farm that cultivates vegetables or livestock)
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Further reading edit
- rancho in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from Spanish rancho.
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rancho n
- (agriculture) Alternative spelling of ranczo
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Indeclinable.
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Etymology edit
From Old French se ranger (“to be quartered, take up a position”).
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rancho m (plural ranchos)
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Deverbal from rancharse (“to get ready, to settle in a place”); 16th century military terminology from French se ranger (“to arrange onself”), from rang (“row, line”), from Frankish *hring.
Noun edit
rancho m (plural ranchos)
- ranch
- shed, barn
- grotty grub
- mess (mealtime)
- 1926, Roberto Arlt, “El juguete rabioso”, in El juguete rabioso:
- A la hora del rancho, chapoteando en el barro, nos acercamos a las ollas hediondas de comida.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (nautical) crew's quarters
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rancho
Further reading edit
- “rancho”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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