ranch Definition
☆ ranch (ranc̸h)
noun
- a large farm, esp. in the W U.S., with its buildings, lands, etc., for the raising of cattle, horses, or sheep in great numbers
- any large farm devoted to the raising of a particular crop or livestock a fruit ranch
- all the people living and working on a ranch
- ranch house
Etymology: < rancho
intransitive verb
to work on or manage a ranch
transitive verb
to raise on a ranch
ranch Synonyms
ranch
n.
ranch Usage Examples
Converse of object
- visit: It will be like visiting a boneless chicken ranch.
- own: A large area of the North East of Brazil is divided into large ranches owned by a few families.
Adjective modifier
- Australian: There are numerous different jobs you can do on an Australian ranch - from driving a tractor to feeding the animals.
- remote: Pool on remote tomatoes parker ranch only or mph.
- private: Its northern limit is shared between several private ranches.
- huge: These were South American versions of their wild-west counterparts, making a rough, tough living, working on huge cattle ranches.
- American: The region is basically a farming area, mostly cattle on a grand scale probably like the small American ranches.
- large: One large ranch overlaps the core zone in about 25,000 ha.
Modifies a noun
- foreman: The film then cuts sharply to a sterile mortuary and the rough face of ranch foreman Pete Perkins ( Tommy Lee Jones ).
- fencing: There is a formal landscaped garden to the rear of the barn enclosed by ranch style fencing.
- quot: Ranch quot he games two to an unknown to.
- style: A further ranch style gate leads to a Second Paddock of some 320 ' x 61 ' .
- house: A neat ranch house with a 15th century tower attached.
- restaurant: Klein captures clay's or a dollar acres covered with upscale ranch restaurant.
Noun used with modifier
- dude: Resorts, cabins, skiing, dude ranches, all the best of the West!
- creek: The auto canada creek insurance ranch benefits of entail a major.
- cattle: An example would be a sheep farm in North Wales or a cattle ranch in Brazil.
- canada: The auto canada creek insurance ranch benefits of entail a major.
- acre: We have a 300 acre orange ranch & I like to help my dad on the ranch.
- guest: A working cattle and guest ranch located in the heart of Apache country in southern Arizona.
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