ranch

UK/ˈɹɑːnt͡ʃ//ˈɹænt͡ʃ/

ranch noun: a large plot of land used for raising cattle, sheep or other livestock.

Noun

ranch (countable and uncountable, plural ranches)

A large plot of land used for raising cattle, sheep or other livestock.
- 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
A small farm that cultivates vegetables or livestock, especially one in the Southwestern United States.

Synonyms:

spread
A house or property on a plot of ranch land.
A ranch-style house.
(uncountable) Ranch dressing.

Verb

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

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

ranch meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

ranch in Tamil

பெரும் பண்ணை, திறந்தவெளிக் கால்நடைப்பண்ணை, விலங்குத்தோட்டம், திறந்தவெளி கால்நடைப்பண்ணை

ranch in Urdu

جانوروں کا باڑا

ranch in Bengali

র্যাঁশ, গবাদি পশু প্রজননের প্রতিষ্ঠান, র্যাঁশে থাকা, র্যাঁশে কাম করা

ranch in Malayalam

മേച്ചിൽപ്രദേശം, ഇടയപ്പന്തൽ, പശുപോഷണശാല, ഗോവർദ്ധനസ്ഥാനം

More languagesFewer languages

ranch in Kannada: ಹುಲ್ಲುಗಾವಲು, ದೊಡ್ಡ ಪಣ್ಣೆಯ
ranch in Tagalog: rantso, bakahan
ranch in Vietnamese: điền trang

Examples of ranch in a sentence

Dinner consisted of crackers, some broccoli and a salad with lite ranch dressing.
The ranch hands had to brand every new calf by lunchtime.
I put ranch dressing on pizza. Please don't hate on me.

All 40 example sentences with ranch

Synonyms of ranch

spread

Forms of ranch

Noun
plural	ranches
Verb
third-person singular present	ranches
present participle	ranching
past participle	ranched
past	ranched

Plural of ranch: ranches

Origin of ranch

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.

Words formed from ranch

Phrases with ranch

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Words that rhyme with ranch

Questions about ranch

What does ranch mean?: Ranch means a large plot of land used for raising cattle, sheep or other livestock.
What is ranch in Tamil?: Ranch in Tamil is பெரும் பண்ணை, திறந்தவெளிக் கால்நடைப்பண்ணை, விலங்குத்தோட்டம். See Ranch meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is ranch?: Ranch can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce ranch?: Ranch is pronounced /ˈɹɑːnt͡ʃ/ (UK).
What is the plural of ranch?: The plural of ranch is ranches.

Words near ranch in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: ranch (page history and authors); ranch (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ranch (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ranch (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ranch (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ranch (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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