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rancherias

rancherias is the plural of rancheria.

Meaning of rancheria

Noun

rancheria (plural rancherias)

  1. A small settlement in the Americas, especially of Native Americans.
    • The springs are so few in number that their names are household words in every Indian rancheria and every settler's home; and there are no brooks, no creeks, and no rivers but the trunk of the Colorado and the trunk of the Gila.1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961...
  2. (Philippines, historical) A political division denoting a small poor rural settlement.

Questions about rancherias

What is rancherias the plural of?
Rancherias is the plural of rancheria.

Words near rancherias in the dictionary

  1. ranched
  2. rancher
  3. ranchera
  4. rancheras
  5. rancheria
  6. rancherias
  7. rancherie
  8. rancheries
  9. rancherio
  10. rancherios
  11. ranchero

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