ranch

[US]/rɑːntʃ/
[UK]/ræntʃ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. large farm or estate in the United States where cattle, horses, or sheep are raised, and often fruit trees are also grown and chickens are raised.

Phrases & Collocations

cattle ranch

horse ranch

working ranch

guest ranch

ranch house

dude ranch

Example Sentences

a split-level ranch house.

The ranch is in the middle of a large plateau.

ranch meals are invariably big and hearty.

A vaquero on a cattle ranch in Mato Grosso.

a trade center in a ranching and oil-producing region

a ranch-style brick home set among reticulated grounds.

He left his Montana ranch to his spinster sister.

The rancher must always be on guard against the dangers that nature can create.

The first farmed cervid to display signs of CWD was an elk that fell ill in 1996 on a ranch in Saskatchewan.

The ranch castrated three-fourths of its male calves.

(2) the Cretaceous pelite unit had undergone progressively increasing degrees of partial melting with the proximity of the Goat Ranch granodiorite;

Spurred by our 2004 meeting, biologists recently reintroduced Bolson tortoises to a private ranch in New Mexico.

Well, Miss Eleanor Marlowe could marry him and come back to Texas, but not to the wealth of Latigo, the family ranch near EI   Paso.

The ranch was a long, low wooden structure); more often, though, the word implies considerable size:

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