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ranchette

ranchette noun: a small ranch or large home lot, often on the outskirts of a major metropolitan area and just past the planned neighborhoods, consisting of 40 acres and a house and possibly a barn or other outbuildings.

Noun

ranchette (plural ranchettes)

  1. A small ranch or large home lot, often on the outskirts of a major metropolitan area and just past the planned neighborhoods, consisting of 40 acres and a house and possibly a barn or other outbuildings.
    • There are trace elements of ranchettes all the way to St. Cloud, the Stearns County seat.2001 August 26, Garrison Keillor, “In Search of Lake Wobegon”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Forms of ranchette

pluralranchettes

Origin of ranchette

From ranch + -ette.

Questions about ranchette

What does ranchette mean?
Ranchette means a small ranch or large home lot, often on the outskirts of a major metropolitan area and just past the planned neighborhoods, consisting of 40 acres and a house and possibly a barn or other outbuildings.
What part of speech is ranchette?
Ranchette is a noun.
What is the plural of ranchette?
The plural of ranchette is ranchettes.

Words near ranchette in the dictionary

  1. rancheros
  2. ranchers
  3. ranchería
  4. rancherías
  5. ranches
  6. ranchette
  7. ranchettes
  8. ranchgirl
  9. ranchgirls
  10. ranchhand
  11. ranchhands

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