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rancherio

rancherio is the alternative form 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.

Forms of rancherio

pluralrancherios

Origin of rancherio

From Spanish rancherío.

Questions about rancherio

What is rancherio the alternative form of?
Rancherio is the alternative form of rancheria.

Words near rancherio in the dictionary

  1. rancheras
  2. rancheria
  3. rancherias
  4. rancherie
  5. rancheries
  6. rancherio
  7. rancherios
  8. ranchero
  9. ranchero sauce
  10. ranchero sauces
  11. rancheroes

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