Noun: ranch
| Singular | ranch |
| Plural | ranches |
Sample Sentences
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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 […].” [1899, Stephen Crane, chapter 1, in Twelve O'Clock:]
Nouns inflected like ranch
penniless-bench,
wintergrass,
kitchen pass,
grey fox,
grey box,
trailer hitch,
paleness,
loaded march,
Tush Push,
horribleness,
slaughteress,
chapparvovirus,
greenwax,
royal flush,
crab cactus,
geostress,
syngas,
wintercress,
ichthys,
ichthus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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." Cognate with English rank. See: Spanish Nouns '
rancho', English Nouns '
rank'.
Verbs referencing "ranch"
Danish Nouns
ranch, Dutch Nouns
ranch, Italian Nouns
ranch, Romanian Nouns
ranch, Swedish Nouns
ranch, Irish Nouns
rainse, German Nouns
Ranch.