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ranch

See also: Ranch

English

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Etymology

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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)

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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 and/or livestock, especially one in the Southwestern United States.
  3. A house or property on a plot of ranch land.
  4. (uncountable) Ranch dressing.

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Verb

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ranch (third-person singular simple present ranches, present participle ranching, simple past and past participle ranched)

  1. To operate a ranch; to engage in ranching.
    Formally the widow still ranches, but in fact she leaves all ranching to the foreman.
  2. To work on a ranch.
    Bill had ranched only five years when his dad made him foreman.

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Danish

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Etymology

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From English ranch.

Noun

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ranch c (singular definite ranchen, plural indefinite rancher)

  1. a ranch

Declension

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Declension of ranch
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative ranch ranchen rancher rancherne
genitive ranchs ranchens ranchers ranchernes

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Dutch

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Etymology

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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
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Haitian Creole

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Etymology

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From French hanche.

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ranch

  1. hip

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  • Targète, Jean and Urciolo, Raphael G. Haitian Creole-English dictionary (1993; →ISBN)

Italian

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Etymology

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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)

  1. a ranch, notably livestock breeding farm

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English ranch.

Noun

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ranch n (plural ranch-uri)

  1. ranch

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Declension of ranch
singular plural
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
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