Ranch

Definition: Ranch

Ranch

Noun

1. Farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle).

Verb

1. Manage or run a ranch; "Her husband is ranching in Arizona".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "ranch" was first used: 1808. (references)

Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Ranch

Property

Manor, honor, domain, demesne; farm, plantation, hacienda; allodium; (free); fief, fieff, feoff, feud, zemindary, dependency; arado, merestead, ranch.

Crosswords: Ranch

Dutch (ranch), French (ranch, spread), German (ranch), Italian (ranch), Swedish (ranch).

When you think of the lot of women on this ranch who need a beatin' more than I do. (The Women; writing credit: Anita Loos)

That was the end of Grogan the man who killed my father, raped and murdered my sister, burned my ranch, shot my dog, and stole my Bible (Romancing the Stone; writing credit: Diane Thomas)

I got me a ranch house out in Sausalito, 25 acres, a couple of pigs, sex swing in the basement, this weird Vietnamese guy who just kind of hangs out - you know, the American Dream (Saturday Night Live; writing credit: Doug Abeles; Leo Allen)

I own the Three Bar Ranch. I want to apologize for some of the people in town (Bad Day at Black Rock; writing credit: Howard Breslin; Don McGuire)

If I'd been a ranch, they would have named me The Bar Nothing (Gilda; writing credit: Jo Eisinger; E.A. Ellington)

Missus Little's Dude Ranch (1972)

Ranch Hand (1970)

Cattle Ranch (1961)

Ranch Party (1958)

Acrobat Ranch (1950)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Tejon Ranch Co: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• Hammerhead Ranch Motel: A Novel (reference)

• Lazy B: Growing Up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest (reference)

• Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch (reference)

• Mystery Ranch (Boxcar Children Series, No 4) (reference)

• The Canyon Ranch Guide to Living Younger Longer: A Complete Program for Optimal Health for Body, Mind, and Spirit (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• America West Farm & Ranch (reference)

• Farm & Ranch Guide (reference)

• Farm & Ranch News (reference)

• Rocky Mountain Farm & Ranch (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Cadillac Ranch (reference)

• Gunsmoke Ranch (reference)

• Melody Ranch (reference)

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Music

• Harmony Ranch (reference)

• Uncle Moe's Space Ranch (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Sky Ranch For Flight Simulator 2002 (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Henckels International 4-Piece Ranch Steak Knife Set (reference)

• Ranch Steak Knives, Set of 4 (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Ronnie and Elvis greet geodetic party at Montana dude ranch. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Triangulation station at Meade's Ranch Control point for the North American Datum. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Cactus growing south of the Kohala Mountains just a few miles from tropical rainforest. Cattle on the Parker Ranch grazing in the distance. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Horses in paradise - on the Parker Ranch. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Rincon Grande Ranch in the Falkland Islands - the SHACKLETON came here to pick up sheep carcasses for supplying Antarctic bases. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Little Eightmile Ranch along the Lemhi River, one of the areas selected for for the livestock exclusion fencing restoration project. This image shows the stream prior to the fencing. Erosion is evident. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Big Spring Creek on Little Eightmile Ranch, two miles of the creek were fenced to exclude livestock and protect the riparian habitat. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Family of ranchers checks the grass on a ranch in South Dakota. Credit: Unknown.

Stream habitat project near Petaluma on Ranch in Sonoma County, CA. Credit: Lynn Betts.

Carlos Rodriques (right), NRCS, Resource Conservationist assists Susan Gardner (left) in feeding her Corriedale sheep. Gardners' ranch is in Charlow, Mission Valley, Montana. Credit: USDA.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Ask anybody where the Hooper ranch is.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

Theme and adventure parks are a favorite with this category, but ranch and outdoor vacations are becoming very popular. (references)

Many British vacationers are horse lovers and are interested in experiencing the American West through western-style riding, dude ranches, chuck wagon barbecues, and the other ranch vacation attractions. (references)

Economic History

Brunei Darussalam

At 2,262 square miles, this ranch is larger than Brunei itself. (references)

Canada

Under the tariff elimination provisions of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the majority of US agricultural products have entered Canada duty-free since January 1, 1998. On December 4, 1998 the United States and Canada signed a Record of Understanding, an agreement to further open Canadian markets to US farm and ranch products. (references)

Human Rights

Mexico

Federal authorities confiscated the ranch where the bodies were found but the courts ordered it returned to its owner in July 2000. The Chihuahua-based Committee for the Defense of Human Rights alleged that military and police forces were responsible for some of the disappearances. (references)

Worker Rights

Brazil

Police rarely investigate the traffickers who brought the workers to the remote ranches and transferred their debt to ranch operators. (references)

Brazil

The mobile unit operates in secret to avoid alerting estate owners and ranch managers to planned actions, and it conducts raids under the protection of federal police officers. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "ranch": a dude ranch ♦ bell Ranch ♦ boys Ranch ♦ burnt Ranch ♦ cattle ranch ♦ Chesapeake Ranch Estates ♦ dude ranch ♦ Fair Oaks Ranch ♦ Foothill Ranch ♦ fruit ranch ♦ Highlands Ranch ♦ Mountain Ranch ♦ Phillips Ranch ♦ Porter Ranch ♦ Rafter J Ranch ♦ ranch hand ♦ ranch house ♦ ranch mink ♦ Sea Ranch Lakes ♦ Sky Ranch ♦ The Sea Ranch. Additional references.

Beginning with "ranch": ranch-bred, ranch-farming, ranch-house, ranch-style, ranch-type.

Ending with "ranch": sheep-ranch.

Afrikaans

plaas (estate, farm, lay down, locate, place, property, put, put down), boereplaas (estate, farm, property). (various references)

Albanian

punoj në fermë, fermë (bowery, farm, steading), drejtoj fermën, banesë pronari të fermës. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مزرعة مواشي, ‏مزرعة (farm, grange, ground, manor, plantation), ‏أدار مربي للماشية. (various references)

Bulgarian 

скотовъдна ферма, ранчо, работя в ранчо, отглеждам в ранчо, живея в ранчо. (various references)

Chinese 

大農場 , 大农场. (various references)

Czech

ranè, farma (farm). (various references)

Danish

bondegård (estate, farm, property). (various references)

Dutch

landgoed (estate, farm, property), goed (agreed, clothes, clothing, correct, estate, exact, farm, fine, good, nice, OK, okay, possession, proper, property, right, very good, well), bezitting (estate, farm, possession, property). (various references)

Esperanto

ranĉo, bieno (estate, farm, property). (various references)

Faeroese

bóndagarður (estate, farm, property). (various references)

Farsi 

مزرعه یامرتع احشام , دامداری کردن , درمرتع پرورش احشام کردن . (various references)

Finnish

maatila (estate, farm, property). (various references)

French

ranch, domaine (range), bien. (various references)

Frisian

pleats (estate, farm, property), boupleats (estate, farm, property), boerepleats (estate, farm, property). (various references)

German

Ranch. (various references)

Greek 

ράντσο. (various references)

Hebrew 

חוה (farm, farmstead). (various references)

Hungarian

farm (farm, grange). (various references)

Icelandic

stórbýli (estate, farm, property), búgarður (estate, farm, property), bú (estate, farm, property). (various references)

Indonesian

peternakan (husbandry, livestock). (various references)

Irish

feirm (estate, farm, property). (various references)

Italian

fattoria (estate, farm, farmhouse, farmstead, Grange, homestead, property). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

牧野 (pasture land). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぼくや (pasture land). (various references)

Korean 

목장. (various references)

Manx

troggal stock er ransh, ranshey, ransh. (various references)

Norwegian

gård (estate, farm, property). (various references)

Papago

lahnju. (various references)

Pig Latin

anchray.(various references)

Portuguese

rancho (bottle), fazenda (cloth, commodity, estate, farm, hacienda, material, merchandise, plantation, property, wares, wooden cloth). (various references)

Romanian

crescãtorie de vite, ţine sau conduce o crescãtorie de vite. (various references)

Russian 

ранчо (rancho), ферма (estate, farm, girder, location, ostrich-farm, property, ranchland, stead, steading, truss). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ranč, držati ranč. (various references)

Spanish

granja (estate, farm, Grange, homestead, property), finca (estate, farm, land, manor, property), rancho (mess). (various references)

Swedish

ranch, säteri (estate, farm, manor, property), gård (areaway, court, courtyard, dooryard, enclosure, estate, farm, farmyard, homestead, inclosure, property, yard), farm (farm), bondgård (estate, farm, farmhouse, farmstead, property). (various references)

Tagalog

kabukirán (estate, farm, property), búkid (estate, farm, property). (various references)

Thai

ฟาร์มปศุสัตว์ (ranchland, rancho), ทำฟาร์มปศุสัตว์. (various references)

Turkish

hayvancılık yapmak, hayvan üretme çiftliği, çiftlikte yaşamak, çiftlik işletmek, çiftlik (bowery, duality, farm, farmstead, hacienda). (various references)

Ukrainian

ранчо, займатися сільським господарством (farm), бути фермером. (various references)

Welsh

fferm (estate, farm, property). (various references)

Zulu

ipulazi (estate, farm, property), ilipulazi (estate, farm, property). (various references)

vicus, villa. (various references)

ranger. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "ranch": ranched, rancher, ranchero, rancheros, ranchers, ranches, ranching, ranchman, ranchmen, rancho, ranchos. (additional references)

Words ending with "ranch": branch, cranch, elasmobranch, interbranch, lamellibranch, nudibranch, opisthobranch, prosobranch, rebranch, subbranch. (additional references)

Words containing "ranch": branched, branches, branchia, branchiae, branchial, branchier, branchiest, branching, branchiopod, branchiopods, branchless, branchlet, branchlets, branchline, branchlines, branchy, cranched, cranches, cranching, disenfranchise, disenfranchised, disenfranchisement, disenfranchisements, disenfranchises, disenfranchising, disfranchise, disfranchised, disfranchisement, disfranchisements, disfranchises, disfranchising, elasmobranchs, enfranchise, enfranchised, enfranchisement, enfranchisements, enfranchises, enfranchising, franchise, franchised, franchisee, franchisees, franchiser, franchisers, franchises, franchising, franchisor, franchisors, lamellibranchs, multibranched, nudibranchs. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Ranch" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: anch, Cranch, Dranich, frynych, Gransch, grantcha, Jansch, Kranjc, narch, Raach, racah, Rachh, Raich, Rainich, Ranc, ranche, Ranchi, ranchp, rangh, rankh, Ranku, ranky, rauch, Reinach, renc, Rench, Rensch, Renzhi, Rinchik, Rnaseh, ronchi, ronchy, sanch, tranch, Urnasch. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: arch, carn, char, narc.

-2 letters: arc, can, car, nah, rah, ran.

-3 letters: ah, an, ar, ha, na.

+1 letter: anarch, anchor, archon, branch, cranch, inarch, rancho, raunch.

+2 letters: anarchs, anarchy, anchors, archine, arching, archons, barchan, branchy, brechan, chagrin, chancre, changer, chanter, chantor, chantry, charing, charnel, craunch, endarch, handcar, marchen, monarch, nomarch, ranched, rancher, ranches, ranchos, raunchy, tranche, unchary.

+3 letters: anarchic, anchored, anchoret, anorthic, arachnid, archaean, archines, archings, archness, barchans, blancher, branched, branches, branchia, brechans, bronchia, canephor, chagrins, chairing, chairman, chairmen, chaldron, chamfron, chancery, chancier, chancres, chandler, chanfron, changers, chanters, chantors, chaperon, characin, charging, charking, charming, charnels, charring, charting, chaunter, chicaner, chlordan, choreman, chronaxy, coanchor, coronach, cranched, cranches, crankish, crashing, enchaser, encroach, endarchy, enhancer, ethnarch, gynarchy, hadronic, handcars, handcart, harmonic, inarched, inarches, launcher, marching, menarche, merchant, monarchs, monarchy, nomarchs, nomarchy, omniarch, parching, pentarch, prochain, ranchero, ranchers, ranching, ranchman, ranchmen, raunches, reaching, rebranch, rechange, relaunch, revanche, rhonchal, roaching, snatcher, stancher, tranches, trichina, unanchor, uncharge.