ranch
English edit
Etymology edit
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”, from ranchear (“to lodge or station”), from Old French ranger (“install in position”), from rang (“row, line”) (cognate with English rank)
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /ɹɑːntʃ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɹænt͡ʃ/
Audio (US) (file)
- Rhymes: -ɑːntʃ, -æntʃ
Noun edit
ranch (countable and uncountable, plural ranches)
- 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 […].”
- A small farm that cultivates vegetables and/or livestock, especially one in the Southwestern United States.
- A house or property on a plot of ranch land.
- (uncountable) Ranch dressing.
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Verb edit
ranch (third-person singular simple present ranches, present participle ranching, simple past and past participle ranched)
- To operate a ranch; to engage in ranching.
- Formally the widow still ranches, but in fact she leaves all ranching to the foreman.
- To work on a ranch.
- Bill had ranched only five years when his dad made him foreman.
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Noun edit
ranch c (singular definite ranchen, plural indefinite rancher)
- a ranch
Declension edit
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | ranch | ranchen | rancher | rancherne |
genitive | ranchs | ranchens | ranchers | ranchernes |
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- “ranch” in Den Danske Ordbog
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Etymology edit
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)
- ranch, notably livestock breeding farm, especially in North America and in other English-speaking countries
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- rancher m
Haitian Creole edit
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ranch
References edit
- Targète, Jean and Urciolo, Raphael G. Haitian Creole-English dictionary (1993; →ISBN)
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from English ranch, from American Spanish rancho (“small farm, group of farm huts”), in Spanish originally “group of people who eat together”, from ranchear (“to lodge, station”), from Old French ranger (“to install in position”), from rang (“row, line”) (cognate with English rank). Doublet of rancio.
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ranch m (invariable)
- a ranch, notably livestock breeding farm
Romanian edit
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ranch n (plural ranch-uri)
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) ranch | ranch-ul | (niște) ranch-uri | ranch-urile |
genitive/dative | (unui) ranch | ranch-ului | (unor) ranch-uri | ranch-urilor |
vocative | ranch-ule | ranch-urilor |